Foreign Holding Companies that Majority-Own U.S. Banks

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Foreign Holding Companies that Majority-Own U.S. Banks

Foreign Holding Companies that Majority-Own U.S. Banks
Ranked by assets of those banks on Dec. 31, 2005. Dollars in thousands
Published April 11, 2006
    Assets of U.S. bank(s)**  
  Foreign holding company Largest or sole U.S. bank Dec. 31 Year earlier Change
1 HSBC Holdings PLC* London HSBC Bank USA Wilmington $406,673,039 $341,545,831 19.07%
2 Deutsche Bank* Frankfurt Deutsche Bank New York 364,693,000 336,675,000 8.32
3 Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC* Edinburgh Citizens Bank Providence, R.I. 155,439,714 136,778,262 13.64
4 ABN Amro* Amsterdam LaSalle Bank Chicago 144,073,691 134,479,442 7.13
5 Manulife Financial Corp. Toronto First Signature Bank and Trust Co. Portsmouth, N.H. 101,335,209 101,648,600 -0.31
6 BNP Paribas Group* Paris Bank of the West San Francisco 66,345,204 50,054,026 32.55
7 Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc.* Tokyo UnionBanCal San Francisco 54,617,886 55,005,656 -0.7
8 ING Direct NV Amsterdam ING Bank Wilmington 53,128,800 36,023,828 47.48
9 Rabobank Nederland Utrecht Valley Independent Bank El Centro, Calif. 51,008,151 29,048,357 75.6
10 Bank of Montreal* Toronto Harris Bank Chicago 50,006,022 41,814,385 19.59
11 Toronto-Dominion Bank Toronto TD Banknorth Portland, Maine 42,568,606 40,222,047 5.83
12 Royal Bank of Canada Toronto RBC Centura Bank Rocky Mount, N.C. 20,364,063 18,448,125 10.39
13 UBS AG Zurich UBS Bank USA Salt Lake City 18,585,794 17,561,547 5.83
14 Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA Bilbao, Spain Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argenta San Juan, Puerto Rico 11,420,305 9,252,090 23.43
15 Israel Discount Bank Ltd. Tel Aviv Israel Discount Bank of New York 9,108,054 8,409,841 8.3
16 Banco Santander Central Hispano SA Madrid Banco Santander Puerto Rico Hato Rey 8,268,141 8,331,909 -0.77
17 Bank Leumi le-Israel BM Tel Aviv Bank Luemi USA New York 6,137,124 5,709,519 7.49
18 SNBNY Holdings Ltd. Gibraltar Safra National Bank of New York 4,441,300 4,116,796 7.88
19 Mercantil Servicios Financieros Caracas, Venezuela CommerceBank Coral Gables, Fla. 4,224,240 3,689,554 14.49
20 Mizuho Financial Group* Tokyo Mizuho Trust and Banking Co. New York 3,823,116 3,497,746 9.3
21 Barclays PLC London Juniper Bank Wilmington, Del. 3,131,000 1,860,965 68.25
22 National Bank of Greece SA Athens Atlantic Bank of New York 2,715,815 3,182,427 -14.66
23 Sinopac Holdings Taipei, Taiwan Far East National Bank Los Angeles 1,781,956 1,684,470 5.79
24 Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. Tokyo Manufacturers Bank Los Angeles 1,651,877 1,505,646 9.71
25 Bank of Nova Scotia Toronto ScotiaBank de Puerto Rico Hato Rey 1,311,063 1,243,517 5.43
26 Woori Finance Holdings Co. Ltd. Seoul Woori American Bank New York 814,448 698,152 16.66
27 Banco Commercial Portugues SA Porto BCPBank Newark, N.J. 709,980 467,324 51.92
28 Bank of East Asia Ltd. Hong Kong Bank of East Asia USA Alhambra, Calif. 503,259 420,939 19.56
29 Sumitomo Trust and Banking Co. Ltd. Osaka Sumitomo Trust and Banking Co. USA Hoboken, N.J. 462,929 444,848 4.06
30 Shinhan Financial Group Co. Inc. Seoul CHB America Bank New York 461,199 351,493 31.21
31 Group Financiero Popular SA Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic BPD International Bank, New York 460,724 397,628 15.87
32 Banco Del Pacifico SA Guayaquil, Ecuador Pacific National Bank Miami 367,873 340,689 7.98
33 First Financial Holding Co. Ltd. Taipei, Taiwan First Commercial Bank Alhambra, Calif. 355,212 302,659 17.36
34 Maham Beteiligungsgesellschaft AG Zurich Habib Bank New York 318,156 309,365 2.84
35 Delta Investment Co. George Town, Cayman Islands Delta National Bank and Trust Co. New York 296,709 394,308 -24.75
36 Caixa Geral de Depositos SA Lisbon Crown Bank Ocean City, N.J. 292,673 255,986 14.33
37 State Bank of India Bombay State Bank of India Los Angeles 196,857 165,062 19.26
38 Allied Banking Corp. Makati, Philippines Oceanic Bank San Francisco 163,741 171,726 -4.65
39 Federation des Caisses Desjardubs du Quebec Desjardins Bank Hallandale, Fla. 150,999 133,016 13.52
40 Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. Melbourne Amerika Samoa Bank Pago Pago 101,771 86,572 17.56
41 National Bank of Canada Montreal NatBank Hollywood, Fla. 79,129 89,687 -11.77
42 Farmington Finance Corp. Road Town, British Virgin Islands Farmington State Bank Wash. 7,338 7,515 -2.36


Note: Banks owned by holding companies in U.S. territories or Puerto Rico were not included.
*Owns or holds majority interest in more than one U.S. bank.
**For holding companies with more than one U.S. bank, sum is the combined total.
Source:

SNL Financial
, Charlottesville, Va.
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