Many of the names making up this year's return on capital (ROC) ranking for Asia-Pacific (excluding China and India) are unchanged from last year.
Papua New Guinea's Bank of South Pacific maintains its leading position in the ranking despite seeing a fall in its ROC. It posted 50.35% compared with 68.69% a year previous. Bank Rakyat Indonesia also saw a decline in its ROC, from 55.91% to 49.46%, but it still managed to climb one place in the overall ranking, from third to second. This was at the expense of Pakistan's United Bank, which fell one place to third with a decline in ROC of more than 10 percentage points to 46.53%.
Malaysia's Malaysia Building Society and Indonesia's Bank BTPN make up the top five recording ROC of 45.82% and 38.08%, respectively.
Philip Alexander reports on the full results of The Banker’s Top 1000 World Banks ranking 2014 in Top 1000 World Banks 2014: Back on track? and James King reports on the performance of Asian banks in Asian banks show strength in numbers.
