The banking story of the past few years – Asia gains, Europe loses – continues in this year’s rankings. In the 2014 Top 1000 World Banks ranking, Asia-Pacific’s share of global Tier 1 bank capital was 35.96%; in 2015 this figure has risen to 38.65%, an increase of 2.69 percentage points.
By contrast, western Europe has lost 3.18 percentage points from 33.78% in the 2014 ranking to 30.60% this year, while central and eastern Europe has fallen from 2.21% to 1.67% – a 0.54 percentage point drop.
