List of largest banks

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

By total assets

Relbanks 2015 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 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 bank.^[3]

Rank	Bank name	Total assets (US$ billion)
1	Industrial and Commercial Bank of China	3,616.39
2	China Construction Bank Corporation	2,939.15
3	Agricultural Bank of China	2,816.60
4	Bank of China	2,629.31
5	HSBC Holdings	2,571.71
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 America	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	1,720.62
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	UBS AG	1,525.76
20	Royal Bank Of Scotland	1,517.66

Banks by country

Rank	Country	Number of banks in the top 50 by total assets (2015)[4]
	European Union	21
1	China	12
2	United States of America	6
3	France	5
3	United Kingdom	5
3	Japan	5
6	Australia	3
6	Canada	3
8	Germany	2
8	Spain	2
8	Switzerland	2
8	Italy	2
8	Netherlands	2
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 & Co	263.60
2	Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (ICBC)	233.25
3	JP Morgan Chase & Co	225.47
4	China Construction Bank Corporation	171.56
5	Bank of America	163.10
6	Bank of China	162.11
7	Agricultural Bank of China	154.95
8	Citigroup Inc	149.32
9	HSBC Holdings	147.85
10	Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG)	86.29
11	Commonwealth Bank of Australia	85.24
12	Lloyds Banking Group	82.20
13	Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)	79.74
14	Goldman Sachs Group	78.50
15	Banco Santander	75.61
16	BNP Paribas	73.70
17	US Bancorp	72.22
18	Toronto-Dominion Bank	71.71
19	UBS AG	71.29
20	China Merchants Bank	68.71

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