How profitable are Islamic financial institutions? With Islamic instruments and different reporting standards in some cases, direct comparisons with traditional western interest-bearing instruments have often been difficult to make.
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Brazil shows its strengths
October 1, 2007Brazil’s banks dominate the listing with their healthy assets and profitability, and Mexico also does well.
Polished performance
October 1, 2007Mergers work through with little change and aggregate Tier 1 capital is up.
Tigers show how to weather market storms
September 3, 2007Our rankings reveal no evidence of a bursting Asian bubble as China, and India to a lesser extent, power onwards.
Pole positions for Polish and Hungarian leaders
September 3, 2007Our listing reveals that retail continues to drive banking sector growth, while low household credit levels remain enticing to western European institutions.
Mighty flotations switch leader podium placings
July 4, 2007Following successful IPOs by ICBC and Bank of China in 2006, the two banks return to the gold and silver positions in this year’s listing. Terry Baker-Self reports.
Beijing hosts launch of Top 100 listing
July 2, 2007The Banker launched its second annual Top 100 Chinese Banks listing in both English and Chinese on June 5 in Beijing. The event was attended by governor of The People’s Bank of China, Zhou Xiaochuan, who received his award as The Banker’s Central Banker of the Year 2007 in Asia, and by Pan Gongsheng, secretary of the board of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, who picked up the bank’s award for The Banker’s Deal of the Year 2007.
Consolidation fervour goes on
March 5, 2007M&As have further cut the number of rankable entries in our listing, which remains dominated by Panama.
South Africans in pole position
December 4, 2006South Africa’s ‘big five’ lead The Banker’s Top 100 African banks listing while the impact of Nigeria’s new regulations on bank capitalisation has yet to filter through.
Saudis remain unmatched
November 6, 2006Yet again, Saudi Arabia’s banks dominate The Banker’s Top 100 Arab banks listing but, as Stephen Timewell reports, there is good news across the region.