Five Major Banks of South Korea

Some of the banks in South Korea are still struggling from bad real-estate loan losses. The country’s Financial Services Commission is considering the creation of a “bad bank” to take on all the non-performing assets currently held by lenders. Of the roughly 100 small savings banks in South Korea, regulators have shut down eight weak …

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The World’s Best Developed Market Banks 2011

The Global Finance magazine has published the winners for the Best Developed Market Banks awards for this year. The winning banks were selected in 25 countries with the exclusion of Ireland and Iceland. From the news report: The winners of this year’s awards are those banks that attended carefully to their customers’ needs in difficult …

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The World’s Best Emerging Market Banks in Asia 2011

In an earlier post we looked at the Best Banks in Latin America based on rankings by the Global Finance magazine. The table below lists the Best Banks in Asia for 2011: [TABLE=890] Source: Global Finance China’s Industrial And Commercial Bank Of China Ltd aka ICBC trades on the OTC market under the ticker IDCBY …

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