Bank Profitability: Financial Statements of Banks, 2007 Edition

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Trends in bank profitability and factors affecting it are major indicators of changes in the state of health of national banking systems. This publication provides information on financial statements of banks in OECD member countries. The coverage of banks is not the same in each country, though the objective is to include all institutions that conduct ordinary banking business, namely institutions which primarily take deposits from the public at large and provide finance for a wide range of purposes. Some information on the number of reporting banks, their branches and staff is also included, as well as structural information regarding the whole financial sector. Moreover, ratios, based on various items of the financial statements of banks in percentage of some specific aggregates, are supplied to facilitate the analysis of trends in bank profitability of OECD countries.

Countries covered
Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Korea, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom and United States.

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Bank Profitability - Income Statement and Balance Sheet: These statistics provide information on income statement and balance sheet for all banks for 26 OECD member countries. The data presented are available from 1979.

How to obtain this publication

Readers can access the full version of the latest editon of Bank Profitability: Financial Statements of Banks choosing from the following options:

• Subscribers and readers at subscribing institutions can access the online database at www.SourceOECD.org/database/banking (Time period covered: 1980 - 2007 where available).
• Non-subscribers can purchase the PDF e-book, CDRom and/or paper copy via OECD Online Bookshop  (Time period covered: 1996 - 2005).
• Government officials can access the online database and the PDF e-book via OLISnet.