Online Exclusive -- Table: Top 50 U.S. Bank Holding Companies as of Dec. 31

Ranked by assets, dollars in millions.
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Rank Ticker
Symbol
Company Name Assets at Period End
12/31/1999 12/31/1998
1 C Citigroup Inc., New York $718,100.0 $668,600.0
2 BAC Bank of America Corp., Charlotte, N.C. 632,574.0 617,679.0
3 CMB Chase Manhattan Corp., New York 406,105.0 365,875.0
4 ONE Bank One Corp., Chicago 269,425.0 261,496.0
5 JPM J.P. Morgan & Co., New York 260,898.0 261,067.0
6 FTU First Union Corp., Charlotte, N.C. 253,024.0 237,087.0
7 WFC Wells Fargo & Co., San Francisco 218,102.0 202,475.0
8 FBF FleetBoston Financial Corp., Boston 190,692.0 177,894.0
9 STI SunTrust Banks Inc., Atlanta 95,390.0 93,169.9
10 HBC HSBC USA Inc., New York (a) * 87,428.2 83,715.5
11 NCC National City Corp., Cleveland 87,121.5 88,245.6
12 KEY KeyCorp, Cleveland 83,395.0 80,020.0
13 USB U.S.Bancorp, Minneapolis 81,530.0 76,438.0
14 PNC PNC Bank Corp., Pittsburgh 75,413.0 77,207.0
15 BK Bank of New York, New York 74,621.0 63,503.0
16 FSR Firstar Corp., Milwaukee 72,787.8 74,276.0
17 WB Wachovia Corp., Winston-Salem, N.C. 67,353.0 64,123.0
18 STT State Street Corp., Boston 60,896.0 47,082.0
19 MEL Mellon Financial Corp., Pittsburgh 47,946.0 50,777.0
20 BBT BB&T Corp., Winston-Salem, N.C. 43,481.0 39,470.1
21 ASO Amsouth Bancorp, Birmingham, Ala. 43,406.5 40,635.8
22 SOTR Southtrust Corp., Birmingham 43,262.5 38,133.8
23 RGBK Regions Financial Corp., Birmingham 42,714.4 36,831.9
24 FITB Fifth Third Bancorp, Cincinnati 41,589.0 37,092.0
25 CMA Comerica Inc., Detroit 38,653.0 36,601.0
26 SUB Summit Bancorp, Princeton, N.J. 36,379.0 33,101.0
27 UB Unionbancal Corp., San Francisco 33,686.1 32,276.3
28 UPC Union Planters Corp., Memphis 33,280.4 31,692.0
29 CF Charter One Financial, Cleveland 31,819.1 30,480.2
30 KRB MBNA Corp., Wilmington, Del. 30,859.1 25,806.3
31 ABN LaSalle National Corp., Chicago 30,426.6 28,982.5
32 HBAN Huntington Bancshares, Columbus, Ohio 28,739.5 26,891.6
33 NTRS Northern Trust Corp., Chicago 28,708.2 27,870.0
34 BMO Harris Bank, Chicago 27,180.0 25,112.0
35 BPOP Popular Inc., San Juan, P.R. 25,447.6 23,160.4
36 MI Marshall & Ilsley Corp., Milwaukee 24,369.7 21,566.3
37 FSCO First Security Corp., Salt Lake City, Utah 22,992.9 21,689.1
38 MTB M&T Bancorp, Buffalo, N.Y. 22,409.1 20,583.9
39 RBS Citizens Financial Group, Providence, R.I.* pending 18,422.0
40 ZION Zions Bancorp, Salt Lake City* Jan. 31 16,662.6
41 FTN First Tennessee National Corp., Memphis 18,373.4 18,734.0
42 CBSS Compass Bancshares Inc., Birmingham 18,150.8 17,288.9
43 AIB Allfirst Financial Inc., Baltimore, Md.* Mid. February 18,294.0
44 OK Old Kent Financial Corp., Grand Rapids, Mich. 17,970.0 18,615.0
45 BWE BancWest Corp., Honolulu 16,681.0 15,929.0
46 HIB Hibernia Corp., New Orleans, La. 15,314.2 14,329.9
47 BOH Pacific Century Financial Corp., Honolulu 14,440.0 15,016.0
48 SNV Synovus Financial Corp., Columbus, Ga. 12,547.0 10,811.6
49 ASBC Associated Banc-Corp., Green Bay, Wis. 12,519.9 11,250.7
50 NFB North Fork Bancorp, Melville, N.Y. 12,108.1 10,679.6

(a) On Dec. 31, 1999, HSBC USA Inc. ($34.4 billion-asset bank at Sept. 30) merged with Republic New York Corp. ($53.1 billion-asset bank at Sept. 30);  Total assets are pro-forma Sept. 30, 1999. HSBC USA is scheduled to report fourth quarter earnings soon.
* At Sept. 30, 1999:
Charter One Financial had $25,501.2 million ($25.5 billion) of assets. It is scheduled to release earnings on Jan. 26.
Citizens Financial Group had $19,993.8 million ($20 billion) of assets. It is scheduled to release earnings on Jan. 27.
Zions Bancorp had $18,595.5 million ($18.6 billion) of assets. A company spokeswoman said Zions will report earnings the week of Jan. 31.
Allfirst Financial had $17,991.4 million ($18 billion) of assets. A company spokeswoman said Allfirst will report earnings in Mid-February.
(f) Citizens Financial Group is owned by Royal Bank of Scotland PLC; HSBC USA Inc. is a subsidiary of HSBC Group in London; Unionbancal Corp. is majority-owned by Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Ltd.; LaSalle National Corp. is a subsidiary of ABN Amro Bank NV, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Harris Bank in Chicago, is owned by Bank of Montreal; Michigan National Corp. is a subsidiary of National Australia Bank.
Compiled by American Banker and fourth quarter earnings releases from bank holding companies.
© 2000 American Banker

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