June 2000
Bank atlas 2000: Banking’s global elite
Consolidation continues to shake up the tables as
restructuring sweeps both developed and developing nations alike. Research by Andrew Newby.
Largest banks by country
A - G | H - N | O - U | V - Z
Methodology
Euromoney's latest survey of the biggest banks shows how fortunes have changed since 1990. Then, Japanese banks took six of the top 10 slots: Fuji Bank (shareholders' equity $11,041 million) and Dai-Ichi Kangyo (equity $10,962.37 million) were the two biggest and six others from Japan made the top 20. The biggest of the eight European banks in the top 20 was French (Crédit Agricole - equity $10,901 million) which that year took the third place occupied previously by Citicorp, which had dropped to seventh.
The best performers that year in terms of equity
growth were Koreans, Taiwanese and some US super-regionals. US money centre banks were sliding down the rankings as shareholders demanded higher equity...
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