Overall results may have been positive, but regional differences abound in the 2011 Top 1000. These geographical distinctions were particularly apparent when examining where the constituents in the ranking are from.
The number of western European banks in the ranking is, rather predictably, falling swiftly. In 2009, 311 banks from the region were included in the overall ranking, but this figure had fallen to 278 by last year and now stands at 247 – although part of this fall is due to the exclusion of some of the German sparkassen from this year’s ranking, due to results not being published in time to be included.
