Lending to consumers and businesses is not projected to be robust for the foreseeable future. However banks may see growth in farm lending as this sector has remained strong in recent years. Farm lending profits have helped some banks offset some of the losses from the residential and commercial real estate exposures. The Top 10 …
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Emerging market banks occupy the top positions in a ranking of the world’s most valuable financial institutions based on their stock price to book values as of Dec 31,2009 according to a recent article in The Financial Times. Click to Enlarge Chinese banks took the first four spots easily beating western banks which were highly …
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Some of the large foreign banks are listed as sponsored ADRs on the OTC markets. Though their trading volume is low on a daily basis and are not followed by many analysts, investors can find a few investment opportunities in them. For example, two of the large French banks Societe Generale(OTC:SCGLY) and BNP Paribas(OTC: BNPQY) …
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Here are the links to some of the articles related to banks that I wrote last year: The Banker: Bank of the Year Awards 2009 India’s Best Banks 2009 The Top 10 German Banks by Assets Held The Top 10 Brazilian Banks based on Assets The Top 10 Chilean Banks based on Assets The Top …
The United Nations Conference on Trade And Development (UNCTAD) publishes the World Investment Report each year. This year’s report contains the top 50 multi-national financial companies based on the Geographical Spread Index (GSI). The GSI is “calculated as the square root of the Internationalization Index multiplied by the number of host countries. Theâ€Internationalization Indexâ€, is …
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