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Comparable and exportable database with up to 30-year historic data and 10-year forecasts for banking, asset management, insurance, and stock exchanges.

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Profiling the responsibilities and powers of key regulatory players including the central bank, regulators, and trade associations.

Banking Risk/Reward Index

Quantify opportunities and risks using the Banking Risk/Reward Index, which helps you compare the investment and operating attractiveness of individual markets.

Banking Industry
Risk Indicator (BIRI)

Measure the vulnerability of a country’s banking system to unpredictable and unobserved financial stress events using BIRI - our composite, data-driven score.

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Company profiles, strategies, market share, and financials for leading banks, insurance companies, asset managers, and stock exchanges in each country.

Banking Industry Risk Indicator (BIRI)

BIRI is our new quantitative, composite score that measures the vulnerability of a country's banking system to economic shocks, including its exposure to external, unexpected events. VIEW BROCHURE

The Banking Industry Risk Indicator (BIRI)

Robust insight, data, and risk metrics

Latest Banking & Financial Services Industry Indicators

From Albania to Zimbabwe, our global banking & financial services dataset provides data for key indicators including assets, liabilities, client loans and deposits, earnings and profitability, capital and leverage, funding, liquidity and more.

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Connect with our thinking

We integrate political, macroeconomic, and cross-industry expertise into our banking & financial services analysis, allowing our customers to benefit from understanding how each factor impacts on the other in their chosen markets.

Ramona Moubarak

Head of MENA Country Risk & Global Banking

Ramona Moubarak joined BMI in June 2021 to lead the Middle East and North Africa Country Risk team, based in London. In January 2023, Ramona was appointed Head of Banking to further develop the product. She has spent over a decade building her experience in political, macroeconomic and financial risk assessments for emerging markets. Prior to joining BMI, Ramona led a team of analysts who covered over 40 emerging markets for Lebanon’s Byblos Bank. A native Arabic speaker, Ramona is also fluent in French and English. She holds a Master’s degree in Financial Economics from the American University of Beirut and a Bachelor degree in Economic Sciences from Université Saint-Joseph.

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Long Reads

BMI Global Macro & Industry Key Themes 2024

In 2024, the global economy will continue to face headwinds in the form of slower growth as the lagged effects of policy tightening in 2022 and 2023 start taking effect.

BMI India Economy Special Report

We expect several structural factors to underpin productivity and growth over the next decade, which will lead to the re-balancing of India’s economic growth model towards manufacturing and drive India’s bullish growth story. These include demographics, economic reforms and industrial policy, global trade and supply chain diversification, and the continued development of the banking sector.

Presenting BMI’s Key Megatrends

On 21st June 2023 we launched the 4th edition of Towards 2050: Megatrends in Industry, Politics and The Global Economy at an exclusive event in London, where BMI’s senior analysts explored some of the key themes from the report in more detail.

Towards 2050: Megatrends in Industry, Politics and The Global Economy – Report Summary

The 4th edition of the best-selling Towards 2050: Megatrends in Industry, Politics and The Global Economy report leverages BMI analyst expertise and the results of an industry-wide survey to assess the disruption risk and new opportunities that will emerge from key global themes such as:

Basel III Revised Standardized Approach for Credit Risk: FAQs

Under the final Basel III standards, the way risk-weighted assets (RWAs) are calculated will change, and the use of internal models will be restricted in favour of a minimum output floor derived from the revised standardized approaches (SAs).

Doing more with less: How small and mid-sized financial institutions can develop a better approach to data

Bigger may not always be better, but after a period in which large financial institutions appeared to struggle most with rising data requirements, the most recent Fitch Solutions Credit Risk Survey points to the burden shifting to small and mid-sized institutions.

Global Industries Outlook 2023

Six major themes will influence the way industries operate in 2023.

Global Macro & Industry Key Themes 2023

We expect a sharp slowdown in global growth in 2023. Excluding the pandemic, this would mark the slowest growth since the global financial crisis, although China will buck this trend.

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