Press Releases Details

September 2005

Being the Fifth Largest Bank in Lebanon in Term of Assets: FRANSABANK is Placed in the 491st Position in Terms of ROA in The Banker’s Top 1000 World Banks, and the 48th Position in Terms of Assets in Union of Arab Banks’ Magazine’s list of Top 100 Arab Banks

FRANSABANK occupied the 491^st position in the world banking sector in terms of ROA which reached 1.07%, and the 492^nd position in terms of ROE which reached 16.8% in 2004, according to The Banker’s annual study on the Top 1000 World Banks in terms of Tier I Capital. Also, The Banker ranked FRANSABANK in the 488^th position among Top 1000 World Banks in terms of Capitalization i.e. by the ratio of capital to total assets. According to this study, FRANSABANK comes within the club of world banks with high capital adequacy ratio calculated to Basel II standards. The Bank’s capital adequacy ratio totaled 25.71% as of end 2004. The Banker indicated FRANSABANK’s strong growth ratios which it recorded in 2004 relative to 2003: Tier I capital (13.4%), and assets (13.6%). On the other hand, the Arab publication “Union of Arab Banks’ Magazine” ranked FRANSABANK in the 48^th position in the Arab banking sector, keeping in mind that it was in the same position in 2003 and in the 53^rd position in 2002. This publication also ranked FRANSABANK as the fifth largest Lebanese bank in its annual study on Top 100 Arab Banks in terms of size (total assets).