Equity to asset ratios for SA’s largest banks

Although still high by historical standards, equity to asset ratios have recently been falling for the largest banks in South Africa. The equity to asset ratio is a measure of banks’ ‘skin-in-the-game’ to weather loan defaults or falling asset prices – a higher ratio tends to be viewed as an indicator of improved financial resilience. Get a free trial to our new Banking Dashboard during July to check out this and other indicators of developments in the South African banking sector.