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Top 1000 World Banks – JPMorgan leads US pack in slew of categories

JPMorgan scooped top place by Tier 1 capital among US banks, and ranks first in a host of other tables, while the country’s smaller lenders also performed strongly. 
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Based on the latest available annual data, JPMorgan is the US’s largest bank by Tier 1 capital and its best performing too. The bank is the best performing in terms of liquidity, as expressed by the combination of its loans-to-assets and loans-to-deposits ratios and which also takes into consideration annual changes.

The bank leads in the operational efficiency table, which looks at the cost-to-income ratio and its annual change; it is in the top spot in the return on risk table, which is based on banks’ return on risk-weighted assets ratios; and on the profitability table, which considers return on assets, return on equity, profit margin and asset utilisation ratios. As for all others, both return on risk and profitability indicators include annual changes.  

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Silvia Pavoni is editor in chief of The Banker. Silvia also serves as an advisory board member for the Women of the Future Programme and for the European Risk Management Council, and is part of the London council of non-profit WILL, Women in Leadership in Latin America. In 2019, she was awarded an honorary fellowship by City University of London.
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