Compare growth and profitability metrics, drill into drivers behind performance, and benchmark banks by region, peer group, or custom lists. Track trends over time and gain deeper insights into ...

The 2025 list hasn’t yet fully seen the effects of US President Donald Trump’s trade disagreements, but fragmentation of ...

The sharp depreciation of the Mexican peso over the course of 2024, due to a mix of domestic and international political ...

Europe was home to around half of the bank mergers and acquisitions involving Top 1000 lenders in 2024. The largest European banking merger of 2024 was Nationwide’s acquisition of Virgin Money in the ...

More broadly, UAE banks have outperformed most of their GCC peers in the latest Top 1000 World Banks ranking. All five lenders in the best-performing table increased their core capital positions over ...

Sharia-compliant Alinma Bank is crowned Saudi Arabia’s best-performing bank. This success stems from the lender’s leading position in the soundness category, as well as second place in the leverage ...

Saudi and Emirati lenders have tightened their grip on the top 25 Middle East banks ranking this year, with institutions from both countries rising up the table while also dominating the profitability ...

Kuwaiti lenders have, in almost all instances, performed commendably in the Top 1000 World Banks ranking, with most institutions posting robust gains across key performance metrics. All five of the ...

Qatar Islamic Bank holds second place overall after topping the table last year, finishing just behind the leader. The bank leads in profitability, operational efficiency and return on risk, while ...

There was no change at the summit of the Top 1000 for another year as China’s big four banks — Industrial Commercial Bank of China, China Construction Bank, Agricultural Bank of China and Bank of ...

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, which re-entered the top 100 (in 100th place), recorded a staggering 266 per cent increase in pre-tax profits. The sixth-biggest bank in Japan saw growth across the board, ...

It is all change at the top of Brazil’s best-performing banks ranking, with Itaú Unibanco taking the top honour from last year’s best-performing bank, Banco BTG Pactual, which drops to second position ...