- Eight Philippine banks made it into Forbes’ inaugural World’s Top Performing Banks ranking for 2026, which assessed 500 financial institutions across 89 countries.
- The ranking, developed by Forbes with market research firm Statista, focused on financial performance rather than primarily measuring customer sentiment.
- Forbes considered several indicators, including profitability, growth and earnings quality, capital and funding resilience, and asset quality and efficiency. Profitability carried the largest weight at 30%, followed by capital and funding resilience and asset quality and efficiency at 25% each. Growth and earnings quality accounted for the remaining 20%.
Eight Philippine banks made it into Forbes’ inaugural World’s Top Performing Banks ranking for 2026, which assessed 500 financial institutions across 89 countries.
The ranking, developed by Forbes with market research firm Statista, focused on financial performance rather than primarily measuring customer sentiment.
Forbes considered several indicators, including profitability, growth and earnings quality, capital and funding resilience, and asset quality and efficiency. Profitability carried the largest weight at 30%, followed by capital and funding resilience and asset quality and efficiency at 25% each. Growth and earnings quality accounted for the remaining 20%.
To qualify, banks needed more than US$3 billion in assets, audited financial statements, and at least three consecutive years of available financial data.
Forbes also divided banks into six asset-based tiers to account for differences in institution size. Philippine banks appeared in three of these categories.
Philippine banks in Tier 3
Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI), BDO Unibank, and Metropolitan Bank & Trust (Metrobank) were included in Tier 3, covering banks with US$50 billion to US$100 billion in assets.
Philippine banks in Tier 4
China Banking Corporation and Philippine National Bank represented the Philippines in Tier 4.
The tier covers banks with US$20 billion to US$50 billion in assets.
Philippine banks in Tier 6
Asia United Bank (AUB), Bank of Commerce, and Philippine Bank of Communications (PBCOM) were listed under Tier 6, which covers banks with US$3 billion to US$10 billion in assets.
AUB placed first globally within the Tier 6 category, followed by Moldova-based maib.
Overall, the ranking provides a financial-performance snapshot of banks across different markets and asset sizes, rather than a direct comparison of all 500 institutions regardless of scale.