List of largest banks

These are lists of the banks in the world, as measured by total assets^[1] and market capitalization.^[2]

By total assets

Relbanks 2016 statistics on largest banks in the world by total assets:^[1] Please note, that the accounting treatment affects the assets reported. For example, the United States uses US GAAP (as opposed to IFRS), which only reports the net derivative position in most cases, leading to US banks having fewer derivative assets than comparable non-US banks.^[3]

Rank	Bank name	Total assets (US$ billion)
1	Industrial and Commercial Bank of China	3,549.88
2	China Construction Bank Corporation	2,981.85
3	Agricultural Bank of China	2,816.60
4	HSBC Holdings	2,670
5	Bank of China	2,629.31
6	JPMorgan Chase & Co.	2,449.60
7	BNP Paribas	2,400.04
8	Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG)	2,323.24
9	Bank of Japan	2,149.03
10	Crédit Agricole Group	1,911.27
11	Deutsche Bank	1,901.37
12	Barclays PLC	1,882.67
13	Citigroup Inc	1,829.37
14	Wells Fargo & Co.	1,790
15	Japan Post Bank	1,701.60
16	China Development Bank	1,613.20
17	Mizuho Financial Group	1,563.88
18	Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group	1,526.98
19	Société Générale	1,525.76
20	Royal Bank of Scotland	1,517.99

Banks by country

Rank	Country	Number of banks in the top 50 by total assets (2016)[4]
1	China	13
2	United States	6
3	Japan	5
4	France	5
5	United Kingdom	5
6	Canada	3
7	Australia	3
8	Spain	2
9	Switzerland	2
10	Italy	2
11	Netherlands	2
12	Germany	1
13	Sweden	1

By market capitalization

Relbanks 2015 statistics on largest banks in the world by market capitalization:^[2]

Rank	Bank name	Market capitalization (US$ billion)
1	Wells Fargo Bank	254.19
2	Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (ICBC)	226.55
3	JP Morgan Chase & Co.	217.79
4	China Construction Bank Corporation	155.97
5	Agricultural Bank of China	155.04
6	Bank of China	144.16
7	Bank of America	142.39
8	HSBC Holdings	128.91
9	Citigroup Inc	126.74
10	Commonwealth Bank of Australia	99.69
11	Westpac Banking Corporation	83.53
12	Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)	83.36
13	Toronto-Dominion Bank	77.11
14	Lloyds Banking Group	73.777
15	Banco Santander	71.16
16	US Bancorp	70.24
17	Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group	69.43
18	Goldman Sachs Group	67.91
19	UBS AG	65.33
20	BNP Paribas	62.60
21	China Merchants Bank	59.17

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