US and Russia take highest mover honours

摘要

For the first time in seven years, China does not dominate the highest movers table. This year, only two Chinese banks - Bank of Cangzhou and Qishang Bank - make it into the top 25, compared with nine in the past two years and a high of 15 banks in 2010 and 2011. The US has the largest number of the banks in the table - six - the same as last year, and Russia is a close second with five. Russian banks have not graced the top 25 list since the 2014 rankings, when Tinkoff Credit Systems was the second highest mover, with a 307.45% leap in Tier 1 capital, and Otkritie Financial Corp placed sixth, recording a 147.21% increase. This absence can be attributed to the rouble's plunge against the dollar - in 2014 it suffered its worst fall since the 1998 crisis - and 2014's oil price crash, which led to a drop in the number of Russian banks in the Top 1000 from 29 that year to 19 in 2015.