The Top 10 Asia Banking Brands 2009

Brand Finance has published the Top 500 Financial Brands for 2009.The table below lists the Top 10 Banking Brands in Asia based on their brand values at the end of 2008: “The methodology employed by Brand Finance in this Global Banking 500 listing uses a discounted cash flow (DCF) technique to discount estimated future royalties, …

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Who are the Top Credit Card Issuers in the U.S.?

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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Top 12 Bank Holding Companies in Insurance Brokerage Fee Income

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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