Despite the talk of so-called recovery the real economy is still struggling.U.S. banks are still weighed down by loan losses especially on consumer loans such as credit card loans. While the losses from credit losses are smaller compared to residential or CRE mortgages, they are still significant to monitor for many reasons some of which …
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Over the past few years many US banks have diversified into the insurance sector to increase and smoothen their earnings, offer related financial products to customers. During the credit crisis and the current recession insurance brokerage fee income is helping banks with strong and stable revenues while other types of revenues are decreasing. Due to …
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The October edition of The Africa Report magazine published the Top 200 banks in Africa for this year. The magazine said the rankings were based on “questionnaires to 665 financial institutions. Their replies are used to create a systematic ranking of Africa’s top 350 banks, based on total assets. We published only the top 200 …
Recently the highly influential AméricaEconomÃa magazine published a list of The Best 25 Banks in Latin America for 2009. This list differs from the earlier list that I posted back in June where I listed the top banks by country in Latin America. The Top 25 Banks in Latin America Click to Expand Source: AméricaEconomÃa …