World's Largest Banking Companies by Assets

October 04, 2007, 10:08 a.m. EDT 1 Min Read

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World's Largest Banking Companies by AssetsAs of Dec. 31, 2006, or end of latest fiscal year. Dollars in millions. Published October 4, 2007
		2006	2005	Change
1	UBS AG Zurich	$1,961,327	$1,562,254	25.5%
2	Barclays PLC London	1,949,167	1,587,061	22.8
3	BNP Paribas Paris	1,898,186	1,485,919	27.7
4	Citigroup Inc. New York, N.Y.	1,884,318	1,493,987	26.1
5	HSBC Holdings PLC London	1,857,520	1,499,302	23.9
6	Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC Edinburgh	1,705,044	1,334,484	27.8
7	Credit Agricole SA Paris	1,662,600	1,246,971	33.3
8	Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Tokyo	1,585,767	1,024,438	54.8
9	Deutsche Bank AG Frankfurt	1,480,984	1,167,800	26.8
10	Bank of America Corp. Charlotte	1,459,737	1,291,795	13
11	JPMorgan Chase & Co. New York, N.Y.	1,351,520	1,198,942	12.7
12	ABN Amro Holding NV Amsterdam	1,297,604	1,037,967	25
13	Mizuho Financial Group Inc. Tokyo	1,269,600	1,325,227	-4.2
14	Societe Generale Paris	1,261,478	1,001,872	25.9
15	ING Bank Amsterdam	1,178,697	1,092,652	7.9
16	HBOS PLC Edinburgh	1,156,614	929,333	24.5
17	Banco Santander Central Hispano SA Madrid	1,088,015	945,857	15
18	Unicredito Italiano Spa Milan	1,077,209	922,791	16.7
19	Credit Suisse Group Zurich	1,025,111	1,012,236	1.3
20	Fortis NV Brussells	1,020,098	858,541	18.8
21	Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) Beijing	962,969	827,974	16.3
22	Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Tokyo	901,711	915,587	-1.5
23	Commerzbank AG Frankfurt	795,900	519,766	53.1
24	Dexia Brussells	747,045	600,993	24.3
25	Rabobank Utrecht	732,757	660,169	11
26	Groupe Caisse dEpargne Paris	710,801	776,194	-8.4
27	Wachovia Corp. Charlotte	707,121	520,755	35.8
28	China Construction Bank Corp. Beijing	697,445	568,213	22.7
29	Agricultural Bank of China Beijing	684,349	602,227	13.6
30	Bank of China Ltd. Beijing	679,572	585,552	16.1
31	Lloyds TSB Group PLC London	672,404	532,222	26.3
32	HVB Group Munich	666,923	580,207	14.9
33	Dresdner Bank Frankfurt	654,928	604,499	8.3
34	Credit Mutuel Paris	635,685	572,209	11.1
35	Natixis Paris	604,366	198,429	204.6
36	Norinchukin Bank Tokyo	602,645	578,229	4.2
37	BBV Argentaria SA Bilbao, Spain	536,972	456,527	17.6
38	MetLife New York	527,715	481,645	9.6
39	Danske Bank A/S Copenhagen	484,515	385,156	25.8
40	Wells Fargo & Co. San Francisco	481,996	481,741	0.1
41	Royal Bank of Canada Toronto	477,432	397,517	20.1
42	Nordea Bank AB Stockholm	457,134	384,393	18.9
43	KBC Groupe SA Brussells	428,485	384,545	11.4
44	Groupe Banques Populaires Paris	402,090	379,171	6
45	Intesa Sanpaolo Milan	383,085	321,641	19.1
46	SanPaolo IMI Turin, Italy	380,022	345,540	10
47	WestLB Dusseldorf	376,656	388,749	-3.1
48	National Australia Bank Ltd. Melbourne	360,563	318,886	13.1
49	Toronto-Dominion Bank Toronto	349,714	309,585	13
50	Washington Mutual Inc. Seattle	346,288	343,839	0.7
51	Resona Holdings Inc. Osaka	343,770	368,701	-6.8
52	Bank of Nova Scotia (Scotiabank) Toronto	336,347	265,476	26.7
53	Eurohypo AG Frankfurt	295,393	276,613	6.8
54	Depfa Bank AGC Dublin	294,071	270,186	8.8
55	Bank of Montreal Toronto	285,187	252,575	12.9
56	Credit Industriel et Commercial Paris	282,481	231,218	22.2
57	Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken Stockholm	282,400	237,350	19
58	La Caixa Barcelona, Spain	275,416	231,349	19
59	Commonwealth Bank of Australia Sydney	273,738	249,914	9.5
60	Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Toronto	270,380	237,155	14
61	Standard Chartered PLC London	265,509	214,598	23.7
62	Svenska Handelsbanken AB Stockholm	261,428	198,642	31.6
63	Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Melbourne	249,543	222,616	12.1
64	HSH Nordbank Hamburg	244,587	218,158	12.1
65	Deutsche Postbank AG Bonn	243,592	165,302	47.4
66	Erste Bank AG Vienna	239,295	180,160	32.8
67	Woori Finance Holdings Seoul	228,923	161,958	41.3
68	Shinkin Central Bank Tokyo	228,699	250,004	-8.5
69	Westpac Banking Corp. Sydney	223,079	197,414	13
70	Halaba Frankfurt	221,379	217,418	1.8
71	Bank of Communications Co. Ltd. Shanghai	219,763	176,274	24.7
72	U.S. Bancorp Minneapolis	219,232	209,465	4.7
73	Hypo Real Estate Holding Munich	213,356	201,077	6.1
74	DNB Nor ASA Oslo	211,536	160,030	32.2
75	Allied Irish Banks PLC Dublin	208,799	157,164	32.9
76	Banca Monte DEI Paschi Siena, Italy	$208,324	$180,706	15.30%
77	Bank Austria Creditanstalt AG Sydney	202,315	186,669	8.4
78	Countrywide Financial Calabas, Calif.	199,946	175,985	13.6
79	Swedbank AB Stockholm	197,631	150,475	31.3
80	Northern Rock PLC Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom	197,556	142,012	39.1
81	Bank of Ireland PLC Dublin	196,756	163,814	20.1
82	Shinhan Financial Group Seoul	191,943	158,670	21
83	Bankingesellschaft Berlin	186,975	190,651	-1.9
84	SunTrust Banks Inc. Atlanta	182,162	179,713	1.4
85	Kookmin Bank Seoul	180,805	179,973	0.5
86	Caja De Ahorros Madrid	180,367	138,702	30
87	Capitalia Spa Rome	178,219	155,866	14.3
88	Caixa Geral De Depositos Lisbon	176,685	159,725	10.6
89	Sumitomo Trust and Banking Co. Ltd. Osaka	175,405	147,676	18.8
90	Nykredit Group Copenhagen	169,377	157,494	7.5
91	State Bank of India Ltd. Mumbai	156,366	143,689	8.8
92	Unione di Banche Italiane* Bergamo, Italy	153,968	NA	NA
93	RZB Group Vienna	152,661	123,925	23.2
94	Capital One McLean, Va.	149,739	88,701	68.8
95	Regions Financial Corp. Birmingham, Ala.	143,369	84,786	69.1
96	National City Corp. Cleveland	140,191	142,397	-1.5
97	Dekabank Deutsche Girozentrale Frankfurt	138,191	150,213	-8
98	Banco Espanol De Credito Madrid	138,089	103,293	33.7
99	Standard Bank Group Corp. Ltd. Johannesburg	137,970	119,141	15.8
100	Banco Brasil SA Brasilla, Brazil	134,777	105,343	27.9
101	Alliance and Leicester PLC Leicester, United Kingdom	134,163	101,343	32.4
102	Sberbank of Russia Moscow	131,699	87,432	50.6
103	DBS Group Holdings Ltd. Singapore	128,652	108,330	18.8
104	Hana Financial Group Seoul	125,369	94,410	32.8
105	BB&T Corp. Winston Salem	121,351	109,170	11.2
106	Banco Bradesco SA Osasco, Brazil	120,974	87,029	39
107	Banco Popular Espanol SA Madrid	120,225	91,116	31.9
108	BOC Hong Kong Ltd.	119,389	106,026	12.6
109	China Merchants Bank Co. Ltd. Shenzhen City	119,341	90,765	31.5
110	Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. Tokyo	116,114	123,112	-5.7
111	Desjardins Group Montreal	115,958	101,389	14.4
112	State Street Corp. Boston	107,385	97,995	9.6
113	WGZ Bank Dusseldorf	106,908	95,789	11.6
114	United Overseas Bank Ltd. Singapore	105,108	87,195	20.5
115	National Bank of Canada Montreal	104,053	91,224	14.1
116	Banco Comercial Portugues Porto, Portugal	103,835	90,039	15.3
117	Bank of New York Co. Inc.	103,370	102,074	1.3
118	PNC Financial Services Group Inc. Pittsburgh	101,820	91,954	10.7
119	National Bank of Greece SA Athens	100,842	71,169	41.7
120	Fifth Third Bancorp Cincinnati	100,669	105,225	-4.3
121	Overseas Chinese Banking Corp. Ltd. Beijing	98,548	78,909	24.9
122	Shoko Chukin Bank Tokyo	97,208	107,363	-9.5
123	UBI Banca Bergamo, Italy	96,959	80,911	19.8
124	Banco Itau Holding Financiera SA Sao Paulo, Brazil	95,245	63,051	51.1
125	Banco De Sabadell SA Barcelona	95,078	60,943	56
126	Schweizer Verband der Raiffeisenbanken St. Gallen, Switzerland	93,535	88,767	5.4
127	Korea Exchange Bank Seoul	92,954	85,217	9.1
128	Anglo Irish Bank Corp. PLC Dublin	92,965	57,964	60.4
129	China Minsheng Banking Beijing City	92,766	69,027	34.4
130	KeyCorp Cleveland	92,337	93,126	-0.8
131	Bank of Yokohama Ltd. Yokohama, Japan	91,879	99,284	-7.5
132	China Citric Bank Bejing	90,503	79,190	14.3
133	Banca Popolare DI Verona Novara Verona	90,137	70,230	28.3
134	Sovereign Bancorp Philadelphia	89,271	63,464	40.7
135	Caixa Catalunya Barcelona, Spain	88,965	NA	NA
136	Bradford and Bingley PLC Bingley, United Kingdom	88,745	70,124	26.6
137	Shanghai Pudong Development Bank Shanghai City	87,848	70,740	24.2
138	Hang Seng Bank Ltd. Hong Kong	85,995	74,908	14.8
139	EFG Group Geneva	83,557	65,913	26.8
140	Chiba Bank Ltd. Chiba, Japan	83,243	80,734	3.1
141	Caja Mediterraneo Alicante, Spain	81,975	NA	NA
142	Merrill Lynch New York	81,526	71,068	14.7
143	Firstrand B1 Preference Ltd. Sandton	80,741	69,475	16.2
144	Hokuhoku Financial Group Inc. Toyama, Japan	80,281	86,529	-7.2
145	Shinsei Bank Ltd. Tokyo	79,781	79,787	0
146	Saint George Bank Ltd. Kogarah, Australia	79,708	59,114	34.8
147	OP Bank Group Helsinki	78,556	69,710	12.7
148	Zucher Kantonalbank Zurich	78,115	70,492	10.8
149	Banco Espirito Santo Group Lisbon	78,079	66,306	17.8
150	Marquaire Bank Sydney	75,865	NA	NA

Note: Currency conversions based on exchange rates on Dec. 31, 2006 or at end of latest fiscal year. *Created April 1, 2007
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