Global Banking

When the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have their annual meeting in Washington DC at the end of September, the atmosphere will most probably be very tense...

COVER STORY: AND THE WINNER IS…   By Gordon Platt   Global Finance unveils its annual list of the best banks globally, regionally and by country.   Many of the world’s leading banks have posted significant increases in earnings so far ...

EUROPE Czech Republic   Miroslav Singer Grade: B Miroslav Singer had just been appointed governor when we published our last Central Banker Report Cards, but he hasn’t wasted any time in giving his assessment on how the euro crisis could ...

ANNUAL SURVEY: SAFE AND SOUND   By Andrew Cunningham   Global Finance presents it annual ranking of The World’s Safest Banks.   Despite the ongoing debt crisis, European banks continue to dominate the ranks of the World’s Safest Banks in ...

Regional Winners Best Bank in North America JPMorgan Chase Jamie Dimon, chairman, president and CEO www.jpmorganchase.com   JPMorgan Chase is a top-three bank in most of its business lines across North America. Its relative stability has helped it to increase ...

MIRACLE WORKERS REACH END OF THE ROAD   By Gordon Platt, Antonio Guerrero and Anita Hawser   Boosting employment and production are the elusive goals of today’s central bankers.   If it’s broke, fix it. Central bankers are taking on ...

Global Winners Best Corporate Bank JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase provides many of the world’s most prominent corporations with the financial services they need to succeed in global markets. With $2 trillion in assets, the bank operates in 60 countries and ...

MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA Angola José de Lima Massano Grade: B The performance of Angola’s economy depends more on oil prices than on monetary policy. José de Lima Massano, former CEO of Banco Africano de Investimentos, was appointed central bank ...

SPECIAL REPORT: THE BIG LEAGUES   By Andrew Cunningham   Global Finance presents its ranking of the World’s Biggest Banks.   Assets sizes of the world’s biggest banks have stabilized, after three years of deleveraging and asset write-downs. The 50 ...

ANNUAL SURVEY: GOING MAINSTREAM   By Adam Rombel   In the first of a two-part series, Global Finance identifies the best online corporate and consumer banks.   Internet banking is no longer just an alternative channel. In the first of ...

ANNUAL SURVEY: MEETING NEW DEMANDS   By Gordon Platt   Subcustodians focus on real-time data and safety of client assets.   The world’s leading subcustodians are investing in new systems to meet an increasing desire from global custodians for real-time ...

Africa Fast-Growing Continent Offers Huge Potential And Significant Risks   Africa is rich in natural resources, including oil and gas and minerals, which are in growing demand as the global economy expands. The continent seems likely to outperform the developed ...

Europe Capital Performance   The past year has been one of continuing struggle for much of the European banking sector. After a bruising 2009, which was characterized by banking failures and government bailouts, 2010 brought the European sovereign debt crisis. ...

North America Rising Markets Lift Banks North America’s banking system is in much better condition than it was before the financial crisis erupted. It has significantly more Tier 1 capital and plenty of liquidity, thanks in part to the Federal ...

LATIN AMERICA Building On Solid Foundations   Few financial systems around the world have recovered from the 2008 global economic downturn as quickly as Latin America’s, with lessons learned from previous crises—both foreign and domestic—serving them well. Having financed their ...

Middle East Change Creates New Opportunities   Banks in the Middle East are pulling in their horns in light of the widespread political upheaval in the region. Markets have been unsettled by the political developments, but the economic fundamentals remain ...

ASIA Credit Quality May Hinder Expansion Plans   While most of emerging Asia’s banks came out of the 2008 financial crisis with strong capital ratios and creditworthiness, the crisis had more of a negative impact on banks in some of ...

ANNUAL SURVEY: THE WORLD’S BEST BANKS 2011   By Gordon Platt, Antonio Guerrero, Anita Hawser and Denise Bedell   Growth Returns But Questions Linger For Banks   Banking systems in Asia and Latin America were among the first to recover ...

Best Legal Advisers Global Skadden Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, which operates under the brand name Skadden, was the number-one legal adviser on global mergers and acquisitions announced in 2010, according to Thomson Reuters. Skadden advised on 227 deals ...

Global Winners Best Investment Bank Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley’s broad-based strength in equity underwriting and financial advisory work on mergers and acquisitions worldwide is unparalleled. The investment bank’s only relative weakness is in the fixed-income area, which it is working ...