The Banker

For other uses, see Banker (disambiguation).

The Banker

The January 2011 front cover of The Banker
Type	Monthly Industry Magazine
Format	Magazine
Owner(s)	Financial Times (Pearson)
Editor	Brian Caplen
Founded	1928
Headquarters	1 Southwark Bridge London SE1 9HL England
Circulation	28,771
ISSN	0005-5395
Website	www.thebanker.com

The Banker is an English-language monthly international financial affairs publication owned by The Financial Times Ltd. and edited in London. The magazine was first published in January 1926 through founding Editor, Brendan Bracken of the Financial News, who went on to become the chairman of the Financial Times from 1945-1958.

Since its founding, the magazine has claimed a dedication to the international perspective through features, interviews, multi-media applications and events. The Banker is the world’s premier banking and finance resource, read in over 180 countries and is the key source of data and analysis for the industry. It combines in-depth regional and country coverage with reports on global financial markets, regulation and policy, cash management and securities services, commodities and carbon finance, infrastructure and project finance, trading and technology, clearing and settlement, and management and governance issues.

The Banker is read most widely in banks, financial institutions, multilateral corporations, central banks and finance ministries around the world. Approximately 60% of its readers are CEO/President and CFO/Treasurers of their organizations.

Features and awards

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 2010 and a record 149 countries were acknowledged for their achievements, with Standard Chartered winning the global award.

Top 1000 World Banks is published annually in July and coincides with the Banker awards. 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 the world's leading 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 helped when estimating the size and growth-rate of the emerging Islamic financial marketplace.

Editors

The current editors of the ‘’The Banker’’ are:

• Brian Caplen (Editor)
• Stephen Timewell (Editor Emeritus)
• Geraldine Lambe (Senior Editor)
• Silvia Pavoni (Investment Editor)
• Philip Alexander (Finance Editor)
• John Beck (Technology Editor)
• Paul Wallace (Africa editor & markets writer)
• Jane Cooper (Asia editor & GTS editor)
• Melissa Hancock (Middle East editor)

Circulation

The Banker is a monthly magazine, published near the start of the month. The Banker's website posts each issue’s content at the start of the month and has regular content updates including the latest banking trends. Circulation for the magazine, audited by the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC), was over 28,000 in 2009, with the UK making up 21% of the total. In the triennial Global Capital Markets Survey Global Capital Markets Survey, among monthly titles The Banker ranked :

• number one in capital markets
• number one globally
• number one in EMEA
• number one in banks and financial institutions
• in the top five for Asia and the Americas

External links

• TheBanker.com homepage of The Banker
• The Financial Times Business Events website providing group information and links to all group events
• [http://www.thebankerdatabase.com/ The Banker's in-house source of current and historical financial data on the leading banks in every country, containing contact information and the latest annual results, with an archive of up to 25 years.