The Banker - Features and Awards

Features and Awards

The Banker's primary focus is global financial comment and insight, featuring opinion pieces, profiles and interviews with leading banking and finance figures. The Bracken Column is named after Brendan Bracken, the founding editor of The Banker and serves as a think-tank for financial sector participants.

The Bank of the Year Awards is an annual awards event recognising the top financial institutions in the world. The most recent event took place in December 2011 and 147 countries were acknowledged for their achievements, with HSBC winning the global award.

Top 1000 World Banks is published annually in July based on the findings of The Banker Database. This ranking serves to recognise global leaders in the industry for their achievements, ranking the world's banks by Tier 1 capital globally, as well as by individual country. The awards are the industry’s most widely used index of global banking, and are internationally recognised as the definitive guide to the soundness, strength and profitability of banks. The banks are assessed by Tier 1 capital, with secondary rankings by assets, capital/asset ratio, real profit growth, profit on average capital, and return on assets.

As well as The Bank of the Year Awards, the Banker also conducts awards for Deals of the Year, Innovation in Banking Technology, Investment Banking, Finance Minister of the Year, Central Bank Governor of the Year and Private Banking.

How to Run a Bank is an annual guide to international banking in the new financial environment, combining contributions from bankers, regulators, academics and economists.

Top 500 Islamic Financial Institutions annual listing assesses the global state of the Islamic banking and finance market today. Since 2007, it has aimed to help estimate the size and growth-rate of the emerging Islamic financial marketplace.