How to Analyze the Financial Statement of Banks

Like any other companies, financial institutions prepare financial statements for regulatory purpose and assist their users in making economic decisions. However, banks’ business models are different from other companies. Thus they attract a unique regulatory focus.

[INFOGRAPHICS] Top 10 Banks in the World

Based on Tier-1 capital base, ICBC remains the biggest bank in the world followed by the China Construction Bank and the Agricultural Bank of China. We note that the first 4 biggest banks based on tier-1 capital are located in China while the next 5 are based in the United States and Mitsubishi financial group […]

Capital Importation in Nigeria: Why is FDI so Low?

In a recent publication by the NBS, total value of capital imported into the country stood at $5,854.38m in Q1 2020. This represents an increase of 53.97% compared to Q4 2019 and -31.19% decrease compared to the first quarter of 2019. Foreign Portfolio Investment (FPI) accounted for 73.61% ($4,309.47m) of total capital imported, followed by Other Investment, which accounted for 22.73% ($1,330.65m) of total capital.

Q3 2019 Industry Report for the Banking Sub-Sector

This report provides an industry analysis into the activities and performance of the banking sector in 2019. Here, all the banks listed on the NSE would be analyzed based on financial performance as well as performance in terms of their respective share prices.

Nigeria’s Tier-1 Banks Made Interest Income of N1.52 trillion and PAT of N521.92 billion in Q3 2019

The Q3 financial statement of the five banks reveal they earned N1.52 trillion on charging interest in the first 9 months of 2019 and they made a Profit After Tax of N521.92bln in total. This research work therefore aims to further break down the financial performance of each of the five banks while also ranking them based on how they have performed from January 2, 2019 to September 30, 2019.

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