Less Profit, More Risk

Europe’s major banks have a far lower return on assets than their U.S. peers They also tend to have less capital as a percentage of total assets

DATA COMPILED BY BLOOMBERG; BASED ON THE 12 LARGEST EUROPEAN BANKS VS. SIX U.S. PEERS, USING TIER 1 CAPITAL DIVIDED BY TOTAL LEVERAGE EXPOSURE AS THE METHOD OF CALCULATING A BANK’S TOTAL ASSETS