Among the usual jostling for position between banks on the soundness tables in the 2015 Top 1000 World Banks ranking, an interesting trend can be spotted – capital adequacy ratios seem to be falling among the highest ranked firms.
In the 2014 soundness rankings, Brazilian bank Banco Original was top of the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) ratio table with 74.5%, and Russia’s National Reserve Bank led the capital assets ratio (CAR) table with 81.31%. This year, the highest BIS ratio bank is Nederlandse Waterschapsbank with 70%, and the highest CAR ratio bank is the US’s Franklin Resources, with 53.01%.
