The World's Top 50 banks by Market Capitalization
The World's Top 200 banks and World Bank ranking: Methodology
| Rank 98 | 97 | Bank | Country | Fiscal period | Shareholder equity ($m) | Equity growth (%) | Total assets ($m) | Asset growth (%) | Net income ($m) | Income growth (%) | Return on average equity (%) | $ rate differential (%) |
| 1 | 1 | HSBC Holdings | UK | 1997 | 30809 | 7.61 | 466863 | 21.07 | 6141 | 7.59 | 20.66 | 2.67 |
| 2 | 2 | Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi | Japan | 1997 | 24678 | 1.39 | 653276 | 5.82 | 492 | -32.07 | 2.01 | 16.72 |
| 3 | 44 | ING Group | Netherlands | 1997 | 23791 | 29.2 | 307558 | 27.54 | 2165 | 30.15 | 10.26 | 15.69 |
| 4 | 3 | Crédit Agricole | France | 1997 | 22673 | 8.38 | 419971 | 0.55 | 2038 | 26.3 | 9.35 | 14.34 |
| 5 | 4 | Chase Manhattan Corp | US | 1997 | 21742 | 3.56 |