OREANDA-NEWS. Fitch Ratings has published an interactive summary of its recent series of Global Banking Conferences that took place on three Continents in June 2015. The summary brings together the latest from Fitch's leading analysts from around the world, providing a comprehensive perspective on banks for 2015 and beyond.

The event started in London on 2nd June and continued in Europe, the U.S. and Asia throughout the whole of June. The Global Banking Conference has been running for more than two decades and this year events took place in eight cities worldwide including New York, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Madrid, Tokyo, Singapore and Hong Kong.

At the Global Banking Conferences, Fitch focused on how the changing regulatory landscape was impacting the banking industry, how the macro-economic environment was impacting bank credit and how Fitch is incorporating these issues into its bank ratings and analysis.

Topics covered were:
- Sovereign Update: Divergent Trends More Pronounced
- European Banks: Key Rating Drivers in a Post AQR and BRRD World
- The Four R's of U.S. Banking - Rates, Regulation, Resolution and Relevance
- Chinese and Russian banks

There were over 665 attendees worldwide to the full conferences and over 40 large fixed income investors attended roundtables in London, New York, Boston and Toronto.