2008 data:

Part one
The Americas banking atlas 2008: Largest banks in America
Recessionary headwinds impair credit outlook for US banks; banks in Canada and Latin America are so far relatively unscathed, by Jeanne Del Casino, senior credit officer – Latin American Banks, Moody's Investor Services

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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 2005 and 2006. 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 2007 bank atlas utilises the most recent data available and the date refers to the published date rather than to the date of the data.

 Methodology 

Feature: The world’s largest banks 2007, with data from Moody's
               

                Full results: 2007 Bank atlas

2007 Global ranking by Shareholder equity ($m)

Rank	Entity	Score
1	Bank Of America Corporation	135,271 ($m)
2	Citigroup Inc	119,783 ($m)
3	JP Morgan Chase & Co.	115,790 ($m)
4	HSBC	114,928 ($m)
5	Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group	81,940 ($m)
6	Royal Bank Of Scotland Group	78,730 ($m)
7	ING Groep NV	78,088 ($m)
8	Crédit Agricole	77,462 ($m)
9	Wachovia Corporation	69,716 ($m)
10	BNP Paribas	67,378 ($m)

The top 250 banks are scored and ranked. The above are the top ten published in the 2007 atlas, ranked by shareholder equity.
World's largest banks - Global bank rankings: Top 250 by shareholder equity 

Further breakdowns:
Subscribers may 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:
Africa, Australasia, Caribbean, Central and eastern Europe, Central Asia, Latin America, Middle East, Nordic and Baltic, North America, Northern Asia, South-East Asia, Southern Asia, Western Europe.

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Global bank rankings 2006: Top 50 by shareholder equity (free to access) 

                                                                                               

Bank atlas 2006 - The world's largest banks: Two stories across the globe

July 2006

High borrowing levels and possible interest rate rises could threaten profitability in the US and Europe, while Asian and Latin American banking systems become increasingly sophisticated, say analysts from Moody’s Investors Service.

Bank Atlas 2005: The world's largest banks

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.

Bank atlas 2004: Good times ahead for banking

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.

Bank atlas 2003: The crisis that never was

June 2003

Bank atlas 2002: Banks focus on cost

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.

Bank atlas 2001: Europeans infiltrate ranks of world's biggest banks

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.

Bank atlas 2000: Banking’s global elite

June 2000

Consolidation continues to shake up the tables as restructuring sweeps both developed and developing nations alike. Research by Andrew Newby.

Bank atlas 1999: The world's biggest banks

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.

Bank Atlas 1998

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.

Bank atlas 1997: The world's leading banks

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.

THE EUROMONEY BANK ATLAS 1996: Strongest banks of the world

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.