The Banker’s Top 1000 World Banks ranking for 2014 shows that, at 5.86%, the global aggregate capital-to-assets ratio is at a historic high.

A look at the methodology used to compile The Banker's Top 1000 World Banks ranking.

The Banker's top banks in Italy ranking shows that UniCredit is the largest bank in the country by Tier 1 capital.

International finance centres in Europe are battling it out to become the leading destination for offshore renminbi issuers, with both Frankfurt and Luxembourg registering successes on this front in recent months.

Chinese bank assets are now larger than those in the US. A comparison of the two countries over time may give clues to the sector’s sustainability in China.

Results from 2012 show improvement in profitability in Azerbaijan's banking sector.

While still dwarfed by their Ukrainian counterparts, Georgia's banks are nevertheless punching above their weight in terms of return on capital.

The Polish capital Warsaw was the leading destination in central and eastern Europe for financial services FDI, with Russian capital Moscow ranking a distant second.

Several of the members of the Organisation of the Black Sea Economic Co-operation are facing rising asset impairment, but the reasons vary.

Currencies in several major emerging markets sold off heavily in 2013, and have remained under pressure in some cases. We look at those countries whose banks have a large subsidiary presence in the most exposed markets.