Malaysia’s banks are gradually rebounding, following a few difficult years with plummeting oil prices and a poorly performing currency. Joy Macknight reports.
Leading Chinese banks have healthy balance sheets and low costs yet their profitability compares unfavourably with Western counterparts.
Latin American and Caribbean IFCs have attracted just a handful of projects in the past year, with Brazil leading the way.
The Latin American Banking Federation (Felaban) will be meeting in the Dominican Republic in November. The country’s banks are growing their balance sheets; however profitability is on a downward trend.
Since the revolution in 2011, the top Egyptian banks have been steadily strengthening their balance sheets. However, 2017 was not kind to the country’s two largest banks.
Brazil’s banks have been buffeted by political and economic headwinds for years, and stability is unlikely to return soon with a hotly contested election in the offing.
Indonesia's top banks have been building up their balance sheets – but profitability is declining.
The staffing levels at European banks continue on a downward trend, with Barclays, UniCredit and DNB Group leading the charge. Joy Macknight reports.
South Africa’s top lenders strengthened their balance sheets in 2017, but are now entangled in a corruption inquiry. Joy Macknight reports.
Ten years on from the global financial crisis, what has changed in the US top five banks ranking? One bank disappeared, two experienced a drop in total assets and three boosted their balance sheets. Joy Macknight reports.
Argentina’s ongoing crisis has sparked fears of emerging market contagion. Joy Macknight looks at the state of play of the country’s banks.
With the US and Mexico coming to an agreement on the way forward for Nafta, Canada has been left out in the cold. But could Canadian banks weather a trade storm? Joy Macknight reports.
London again leads The Banker's annual ranking of international finance centres, though New York has its eye on the top spot.
Exiting the eurozone’s rescue programme does not mean that Greece is out of the woods quite yet: the banks must still deal with their damaged balance sheets. Joy Macknight reports.
Australia’s biggest banks continue to prosper despite legal enquiries. Danielle Myles reports.
As fears grow that Turkey is sliding into a full-blown financial crisis, all eyes are on its biggest lenders, Danielle Myles reports.
Chile, Peru, Colombia and Mexico – the countries belonging to trading bloc the Pacific Alliance – have turned their fortunes around regarding financial services investment. Silvia Pavoni reports.
Poland has attracted a good proportion of jobs and investment from US financial companies looking for bases outside a post-Brexit UK. Silvia Pavoni reports.
London dominates financial services FDI in western Europe but outward investment in the region overall grew less strongly than inward. Silvia Pavoni reports.
The head of UK investment banking at UBS talks to Danielle Myles about London’s changing corporate broking market.