uk premier banking brands comparison 2025 - UK banks led the way in 2025, despite pressure on margins
During 2024 both US and UK banks performed reasonably well, comfortably outperforming banks in Europe, despite concerns in the US over the mid-tier banking sector in the wake of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank.
These concerns over a combination of exposure to rising interest rates in the long-dated US treasury market, as well as an over concentration of customer deposits in the tech sector, saw a number of bailouts which prevented a wider scale collapse, and despite concerns over AI the