According to an article in The Banker magazine, the big four Australian banks have to look outside of Australia for growth.The big four banks in Australia are ANZ (OTC: ANZBY), Commonwealth Bank (OTC:CMWAY), National Australia Bank (OTC:NABZY) and Westpac(WBK). As the domestic market is dominated by these four banks they are more likely to depend …
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HSBC North America Holdings Inc, a unit of HSBC Holdings plc (HBC) and Barclays Group US Inc, a unit of Barclays plc (BCS) of UK are present in the Top 10 Bank Holding Companies in the U.S. based on assets as of 12/31/2009. The Top 10 Bank Holding Companies(BHCs) are: Bank of America (BAC) JPMorgan …
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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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