There remains further work to be done on reducing Europe’s NPL levels, particularly if progress is to be made on completing banking union in Europe.
The IMF is continuing to forecast healthy economic growth for Colombia, in contrast to many of its neighbours. Will this provide fertile ground for the country’s banks? Marie Kemplay reports.
The transaction banking business continues to grow at a sure and steady pace, despite macroeconomic headwinds.
The headwinds facing the world’s largest investment banks have taken their toll on revenues, productivity, operating margins and headcount.
Beijing reigns supreme in the ranking of international financial centres by bank data, outstripping main rival New York by some way. Silvia Pavoni reports.
In the past decade, banks in Asia have seen the most aggressive growth in investment banking fees, followed by those in the US. Meanwhile, Europe lags behind, as Kat Van Hoof reports.
Rankings of IFCs by the number of business schools and Internal Baccalaureate establishments put Boston and Chicago at the top.
Bank consolidation in sub-Saharan Africa is in full swing. Large and stable banks are growing steadily as a result, while many small and inefficient banks are disappearing.
London leads the way for the issuance of green bonds, trading $5.74bn in the first quarter of 2019, followed by Dublin and Luxembourg. Silvia Pavoni reports.
As western Europe drops from first place in the light of a lower capital adequacy ratio, China improved its soundness by the largest margin.
United National Corporation of the US tops the return on assets ranking. Regionally, Africa performs well, but Japan and China are stagnant.
Russian bank Otkritie leads the highest movers table, a year after topping the biggest losses table.
US investment into mainland China has all but dried up as the trade war heats up.
Banks in Europe have been going big on green investments over the past two years, as a report by Moody's shows.
Asset growth is likely to accelerate in 2019-20 for GCC Islamic banks after a difficult 2018.
For the first time since 2013, when AFME started tracking capital ratios at systemically important banks in the EU, the average end-point CET1 ratio had declined slightly year-on-year by the end of 2018.
Globally, M&A activity is down on the first quarter of 2018, though it is business as usual in the US.
New research shows the extent that leaving the EU might affect British financial services exports, with shocks likely to be felt beyond London.
European investment banking fees are down by about a quarter over the first three months of 2019, compared with the first quarter of 2018.
Shanghai has beaten out Singapore as the leading Asian destination for financial services FDI, but inflows are down across the board.