While there may be high drama in Israel’s politics, recent years have seen a steady performance from its banks. 

There remains further work to be done on reducing Europe’s NPL levels, particularly if progress is to be made on completing banking union in Europe. 

The IMF is continuing to forecast healthy economic growth for Colombia, in contrast to many of its neighbours. Will this provide fertile ground for the country’s banks? Marie Kemplay reports.

In the past decade, banks in Asia have seen the most aggressive growth in investment banking fees, followed by those in the US. Meanwhile, Europe lags behind, as Kat Van Hoof reports.

Bank consolidation in sub-Saharan Africa is in full swing. Large and stable banks are growing steadily as a result, while many small and inefficient banks are disappearing. 

As western Europe drops from first place in the light of a lower capital adequacy ratio, China improved its soundness by the largest margin. 

United National Corporation of the US tops the return on assets ranking. Regionally, Africa performs well, but Japan and China are stagnant.

Russian bank Otkritie leads the highest movers table, a year after topping the biggest losses table. 

Banks in Europe have been going big on green investments over the past two years, as a report by Moody's shows.

Asset growth is likely to accelerate in 2019-20 for GCC Islamic banks after a difficult 2018.