Changes to rankings in level of capitalisation in European banking. - According to “Les Echos” (a Belgian newspaper), the biggest European capitalisation operations have developed quite considerably over the last six months. The British HSBC and the Spanish Santander banks maintain their first and second place rankings in market capitalisations with €102.6bn and €68.4bn respectively (as opposed to €83.7bn and €53.9bn on 31 December) but the pressure is on for the runners up that...