The world’s largest banks
The world’s largest 250 banks, ranked by shareholder equity. Annual guide to the leading banks across the globe by market capitalization, plus other key statistics, including the largest banks in every region.
The atlas includes the largest banks country-by-country (approx. 1000 banks) and a list of the top 250 global financial groups by assets for 2006 and 2007. The lists includes banks as well as Building Societies. Both lists provide the bank name, the country, the rating information if available and 10 common ratios based on 2-year public information. Data for the atlas is provided by Moody's.
The next bank atlas will be published in regional batches in line with banks' reporting schedules:
Americas in May 2008, EMEA by September 2008, Asia-Pacific by November 2008. The 2008 top 250 will be publlished by November 2008.
Methodology
Feature: Bank atlas 2006 - The world's largest banks: Two stories across the globe
Full Results
2006 Global ranking by Shareholder equity ($m)
| Rank |
Entity |
Score |
| 1 |
Citigroup |
112537 ($m) |
| 2 |
JPMorgan Chase |
107211 ($m) |
| 3 |
Bank of America |
101224 ($m) |
| 4 |
HSBC |
98226 ($m) |
| 5 |
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group |
83281 ($m) |
| 6 |
Groupe Crédit Agricole |
65137 ($m) |
| 7 |
Royal Bank of Scotland Group |
64453 ($m) |
| 8 |
BNP Paribas |
56610 ($m) |
| 9 |
Santander Central Hispano |
53640 ($m) |
| 10 |
Mizuho Financial Group |
52243 ($m) |
The top 250 banks are scored and ranked each year. The above are the top ten of 2006 by shareholder equity.
Subscribers can interrogate the Full Results and drill down the results of the rankings. Banks are ranked by:
- Shareholder equity ($m) - World's largest bank by shareholder equity
- Total assets ($m) - World's largest bank by assets
- Net income ($m)- World's largest bank by net income
- RoE, period end (%)- World's largest bank by RoE
- RoA, period end (%)- World's largest bank by RoA
- Loans as a percent of deposits - World's largest bank by loans as a percent of deposits
- Tier 1 capital ratio - World's largest bank by tier 1 capital ratio
Plus breakdowns by regions:
Western Europe, Emerging Europe, North America, Japan, Asia excluding Japan*, Middle East & Africa, Latin America.
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July 2005
The annual guide to the leading banks across the globe by market capitalization, plus all the other key statistics you need, including the largest banks in every region.
June 2004
The promised crisis never came and instead last year turned out to be a good one for most banks. This year is set to be even better as banking becomes structurally ever safer, though it will never be entirely risk free.
June 2003
June 2002
Deutsche and HypoVereinsbank are the biggest risers in the latest bank rankings by shareholders' equity. Fewer mergers make the size rankings stable. Unfortunately banks' earnings have been anything but.
June 2001
Mergers drive many of the changes in the annual rankings of banks by shareholders’ equity. American and Japanese groups retain the top spots. But European banks have the market capitalizations to grow further through acquisition. By Andrew Newby, data from Moody’s.
June 2000
Consolidation continues to shake up the tables as
restructuring sweeps both developed and developing nations alike. Research by Andrew Newby.
June 1999
Our annual Bank Atlas, produced in conjunction with Fitch IBCA, shows the impact of bank consolidation. Bank of America is now the world's biggest bank by shareholder equity.
June 1998
The Annual Euromoney/Fitch IBCA ranking of the World's leading banks by shareholders' equity shows the big Japanese banks continuing to fade. The most dramatic change is the rise of ING to third place. HSBC remains the biggest bank by own funds but, as our table based on market capitalisation shows, the market values Lloyds TSB and Nationsbank more highly.
June 1997
HSBC Holdings has held on to the top spot in this year's rankings, while mergers have propelled Credit Agricole and Wells Fargo up the table. Elsewhere, Japanese banks have fallen while American banks have made a steady climb.
June 1996
Large-scale mergers and the decision by Japan's Sumitomo Bank to bitethe bullet over provisioning have brought about the major changes in thisyear's rankings. The new Chase has rocketed to ninth position while Sumitomohas fallen from first to sixth. Antony Currie reports.