| Banks find the cloud’s silver lining | ||
| Methodology | North Asia Top 25 | Oceania |
| ASEAN Top 25 | Sub-continent Top 25 | |
| Asia Top 100 (excluding Japan) | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Pro-forma ranking | Bank | Country | Shareholder equity ($m) | Fiscal period | Moody’s Ratings (as of November 14th, 2004) | Equity growth (%) | Asset growth (%) | Income growth (%) |
RoE, period end (%) |
RoA, period end (%) | Loans % Deposits | Tier 1 capital ratio (%) |
| 1 | 1 | Bank of China | China [1] | 22,544 | 2003 | A2/P-1/D- | -15.1 | 7.0 | -51.4 | 2.5 | 0.1 | 65.3% | 6.2% |
| 2 | 6 | China Construction Bank | China [1] | 22,533 | 2003 | A2/P-1/E+ | 73.9 | 15.4 | -90.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 71.4% | 5.9% |
| 3 | 3 | National Australia Bank | Australia | 21,661 | 2004 | Aa3/P-1/B | 17.0 | 10.7 | -14.0 | 10.7 | 0.8 | — | 7.3% |
| 4 | 2 | Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) | China [1] | 20,921 | 2003 | A2/P-1/E+ | -2.8 | 10.6 | -59.2 | 1.5 | 0.1 | 69.3% | 4.8% |
| 5 | 5 | Commonwealth Bank of Australia | Australia | 17,402 | 2004 | Aa3/P-1/B | 16.6 | 19.8 | 32.7 | 10.3 | 0.8 | 128.5% | 7.4% |
| 6 | 4 | Agricultural Bank of China | China [1] | 16,683 | 2003 | A2/P-1/E | 1.5 | 17.4 | -33.6 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 74.7% | — |
| 7 | 8 | Australia & New Zealand Banking Group | Australia | 13,044 | 2004 | Aa3/P-1/B | 39.1 | 41.9 | 28.3 | 15.7 | 1.1 | 129.0% | 6.9% |
| 8 | 7 | Westpac Banking Corp | Australia | 11,874 | 2004 | Aa3/P-1/B | 24.7 | 18.5 | 24.4 | 15.6 | 1.0 | 128.3% | 6.9% |
| 9 | 9 | DBS Bank | Singapore | 9,427 | 2003 | Aa2/P-1/B- | 5. | ||||||
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