Kingston University London Library and Learning Services
Bankscope
Bankscope contains detailed financial information for over
29,000 public and private global banks and 35 banking and financial
organisations. The financial data is provided by Fitch Solutions
and each bank report contains a bal-ance sheet, an income statement
and interim reports with up to 16 years of information. Each bank
report also in-cludes address, contact numbers, web address,
directors, specialisation, world and country rankings, auditor of
the statement, and a history of the bank. Bankscope has 3 years of
information available per bank for stock price infor-mation. The
database is updated daily.
Most results can be exported for analysis, but there are some
exceptions such as Bank ratings.
To access Bankscope sign in to iCat, go to Database List and
then B, where Bankscope is listed. Click on Bankscope. If
requested, choose Institutional Login. From here, choose UK Access
Management Federation and select Kingston University from the
drop-down menu. You may be taken to a Kingston University login
screen. If so, use your normal Kingston login.
Searching for a bank
Select Bank name in Grouped View of Search
Type in a word in the text box. You may prefer to tick Match on
whole words only. Click Search and a list of bank names matching
the text will appear. Tick the bank required. Click OK and View
list of results
Search also by a pre-determined list of subjects in Alphabetical
List or by key-word in Find a criterion
To find a list of banks in a particular country or region,
choose Location in Grouped View of Search> World
Re-gion/Country> OK> View list of results. Next to each bank
there is a summary of assets, latest account date and rankings by
country and world
On this page, to the left of the name of the bank, you can also
view a snapshot of the bank and view its peer group.
On the right hand side there is a breakdown of the country the
bank operates from, the general accounting standards used and the
total assets at the last accounting date
When you have brought up the report of a bank, use the table on
the right hand side to dis-play a specific section of the banks
financials, including balance sheet, income statement, ratios and
share price data.
Some headings, such as News & deals and Original documents
are not available on the universitys subscription to Bankscope. Use
Fame to download original documents for Brit-ish and Irish banks.
Use Thomson ONE.com for mergers and acquisitions of listed
banks.
Doing a peer report
You can also do a peer report either in table or chart
format.
Accessing older data from Bankscope (up to 16 years)
Bankscope normally displays 8 years of data, but you can change
the settings so that up to 16 years if the data is available.
Search for a bank (see previous page). Scroll down to Global
summary and click on Layout. On the next window deselect the
current options by clicking the box circled. Choosing Absolute
periods or Relative periods, tick all the boxes you wish to view.
Change the currency if required. Click on OK.
Referencing
The company providing the database is Bureau van Dijk. When
citing the source, reference it as Bankscope, pub-lished by Bureau
van Dijk. The product name is written in title case, not
uppercase.
Help
Help files can be browsed and searched by clicking on Help on
the top navigator bar. The link will take you to the user guide
where you can use the table of contents or to do a search. Help is
also available by clicking the question mark symbol next to
headings.
