The country's banks’ overall profitability should remain healthy.
The national regulator has given banks more leeway to manage a volatile credit market.
Global lenders are under pressure to reduce costs, finds Barbara Pianese.
The lenders have seen declining CET1 ratios for the past two fiscal quarters.
Increasing interest rates and debt risk could spell trouble for banks.
Over the past few years, the country's lenders have shown efforts to converge on the average European bank NPL ratio.
The sector has bounced back following the Covid-19 pandemic.
Total assets at Australia’s big four have increased, and the ANZ-Suncorp deal is set to further strengthen one of the biggest banks in the country.
The largest lender in the Nordics forecasts an increase in net interest income in the coming years.
The Italian lender is looking to strengthen its capital buffers and solve long-term problems.
In the past weeks the Swiss lender has had to reassure investors about its capital strength and solvency.
Lenders in the country are feeling the effects of a three-year-long economic crisis.
While banks in the Nordic country recorded higher net income in 2021 than in 2017, inflation and increasing house prices may prove challenging in the near term.
The operating environment for banks in Hungary looks set to worsen over the coming months. But its largest lenders are well fortified.
CIMB Group was the only banking group in Malaysia to see a plunge in profits in 2020, but has rebounded nicely in its most recent annual report.
Moody's has revised down real GDP projections for 2022 and 2023.
Almost three-quarters of the central and eastern European region’s top 100 banks saw a fall in their Tier 1 capital during 2021.
The year on year supply of socially responsible bonds and loans in Europe dropped in the second quarter of this year.
Global merger and acquisition deal activity continues to drop year on year, with July seeing a fall of 62% in announced transactions compared with the previous year.
The region has seen strong recovery post-pandemic, but obstacles to growth are forming in the shape of rising energy and food prices, inflation and impending political events.