On 11 and 12 July, Les Echos published an annual listing of the 100 leading European banks, established from statistics collected by the Fitch Ratings agency. The banks were selected according to size (balance sheet total) and the profitability of their own funds (or RoE, the ratio between net result and own funds) and their operating coefficient (the ratio between general costs and operating receipts), two key criteria for measuring the success of a financial establishment. EUROPE has today...