Even by the usually strong standards of Middle Eastern and north African lenders, the results of the The Banker's Top 100 Arab Bank's rankings for 2014 were impressive. Aggregate Tier 1 capital increased from $209.8bn to $233.1bn, a year-on-year improvement of 11.08%. Encouragingly, these gains were well reflected across the Arab World, although Gulf-based banks once again dominated in terms of overall growth. Moreover, this signals an upward trend from the 8.86% increase recorded in last year's rankings, and goes some way to catching up with the impressive 15.3% posted in the 2012 rankings.
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