Like their counterparts in Europe, North American banks are seeing a substantial decline in net profits, in spite of a growth in assets and supportive measures. The rise in pre-emptive provisioning charges levied due to Covid-19 appears to be the cause. Hear an executive summary of the BankFocus research.

Despite maintaining a high growth rate in assets, European banks have experienced a considerable decline in net profitability. This appears to be due to a spike in provisioning expenses levied in anticipation of the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic. Hear an executive summary of the BankFocus research.

With pressure from Covid-19 impacting the banks in India, we investigated their performance and key profitability and asset quality indicators and explore why the weakening trends are likely to continue.

In a recent analysis of five selected banks which experienced credit events recently, we explore if financial ratios can predict credit events.

In this podcast episode, we explore the resilience and profitability of Japanese and South Korean banks since 2012.

Our analysis explores the strength of Emerging Market banks performance since 2012, with some factors improving and others declining, can these banks weather the upcoming storms in 2020? Hear an executive summary of the BankFocus research. 

In this podcast, we look at whether medium and large US banks have regained substantial enough profitability since 2008 to absorb a similar degree of downturn following the Covid-19 pandemic. Hear an executive summary of the BankFocus research.

The analysis of the main financial ratios of the selected Chinese banks indicates weakening trends since 2012. And we expect the risk profiles of Chinese banks to come under further pressure in light of the global slowdown and economic headwinds. Hear an executive summary of the BankFocus research.

The Italian and Spanish banks experienced significant weakening during the 2007/2008 crisis. The subsequent recovery led to improvement in their regulatory capitalisation and funding profiles, but their profitability and asset quality remain weak in light of the imminent impact from Covid-19. Hear an executive summary of the BankFocus research.

Our analysis of the Baseline Credit Assessments (or BCAs) of 173 European commercial banks suggests a strong correlation between the level of BCAs and some financial indicators such as asset quality, regulatory capitalisation and total size of assets. Hear an executive summary of the BankFocus research.