Saturday, May 5, 2012

Canadian Banks dominate World's 10 Strongest Banks

Canadians Dominate World's 10 Strongest Banks
This is a Bloomberg link that makes for an interesting read.

For readers in Asia, we tend to be more familiar with the 'Too Big To Fail' American and European Banks. These include the likes of JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, Bank of America etc.

However, prudent risk management, conservative lending policies and a strict regulatory policy have enabled Canadian Banks to grow even as Banks elsewhere struggled post 2008.



"CIBC (CM) was No. 3 in Bloomberg Markets’ second annual ranking of the world’s strongest banks, followed by three of its Canadian rivals: Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD) (No. 4), National Bank of Canada (NA) (No. 5) and Royal Bank of Canada (No. 6), the country’s largest lender. Bank of Nova Scotia ranked 18th, and Bank of Montreal was 22nd. "


The Canadian Dollar (CAD) too has been a currency that has outperformed over the last decade.
A stable Banking System and global investors searching for higher yielding currencies have contributed to the outperformance in the CAD.

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