The Banker magazine's annual survey of the Top 1000 Banks in the world by Tier One capital indicated that the aggregate Tier One capital of Middle Eastern banks included in the survey stood at $322.4bn at the end of 2017 compared to $313bn at end-2016. It noted that the Tier One capital of the region's banks included in the survey accounted for 4% of the aggregate Tier One capital of the world's Top 1000 banks, which is lower than the share of banks in Asia (44.3%), Western Europe (26.8%) and North America (19.6%), but higher than that of banks in Latin America & the Caribbean (2.4%), Central & Eastern Europe (1.9%) and Africa (0.9%). Also, the total assets of Middle Eastern banks in the survey reached $2,842bn at end-2017 and accounted for 2.3% of the aggregate assets of the world's top 1000 banks. As such, the Tier One capital-to-assets ratio (CAR) of Middle Eastern banks was 11.7% at end-2017, higher than the Top 1000 banks' CAR of 6.66%, as well as of banks in Central & Eastern Europe (10.9%), Africa (8.1%), North America (7.5%), Latin America & the Caribbean (7.5%), Asia (6.6%) and Western Europe (5.5%). First Abu Dhabi Bank ranked in first place regionally and in 81st place globally with a Tier One capital of $20.5bn, followed by Qatar National Bank with $20.1bn (82nd place), the National Commercial Bank of Saudi Arabia with $17bn (94th place), Saudi Arabia's Al Rajhi Bank with $14.9bn (104th place) and Emirates NBD with $14bn (109th place). The Middle Eastern banks' return on capital (ROC) stood at 13.03% in 2017 relative to the Top 1000 banks' ROC of 13.5%, and their return on assets was 1.52% compared to 0.9% globally. 
Source: The Banker, Byblos Research