The rank of the largest banks in the world by market cap

The role of the banks in the global economy is very important. Their performances in the stock markets influence directly and indirectly, not only the trend of the stock exchanges, but influence the entire economy of a country and also the wealth of individual savers.

The size of a bank can be measured with several indicators, one of which is the market capitalization, which is given by the product between total shares and the market price. In this article, we are going to present the ranking of the biggest banks in the world by market capitalization. Let’s now see which are the largest banks in the world in 2019.

The rank of the top 50 largest banks in the world by market capitalisation include: 10 US banks, 8 Chinese banks, 5 Canadian banks, 5 UK banks, 4 Australian banks, 3 French banks, 3 Japanese banks, 2 Brazilian banks, 2 Spanish banks, 2 Italian banks, 2 Swiss banks, 1 German bank, 1 Dutch bank, 1 Swedish bank and 1 Belgian bank.

The world’s largest bank by market capitalization is JP Morgan Chase & Co, followed by Industrial & Commercial Bank of China and Bank of America. In the fourth place is Wells Fargo & Co and in the fifth place is China Construction Bank Corp. The top 5 banks in the rankings have a market capitalization of 1.37 trillion USD.

In the last three places of the ranking of the largest Us banks by assets there are Unicredit with 27 billion USD, Société Générale with 21 billion USD and Deutsche Bank with 16 billion USD.

Rank	Name	Market Cap.	Country
1	JP Morgan Chase & Co	369	USA
2	Industrial & Commercial Bank of China	296	China
3	Bank of America	280	USA
4	Wells Fargo & Co	214	USA
5	China Construction Bank Corp.	208	China
6	Agricultural Bank of China	181	China
7	HSBC Holdings	169	UK
8	Citigroup	164	USA
9	Bank of China	151	China
10	China Merchants Bank	133	China
11	Royal Bank of Canada	114	Canada
12	Toronto-Dominion Bank	107	Canada
13	Commonwealth Bank of Australia	100	Australia
14	Itau Unibanco Holding SA	86	Brazil
15	U.S. Bancorp	84	USA
16	Goldman Sachs	79	USA
17	Banco Santander	75	Spain
18	Banco Bradesco	75	Brazil
19	Morgan Stanley	74	USA
20	Westpac	68	Australia
21	Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group	66	Japan
22	Bank of Nova Scotia	65	Canada
23	PNC Financial Services Group	63	USA
24	Bank of Communications	62	China
25	BNP Paribas	59	France
26	ANZ Banking Group	55	Australia
27	National Australia Bank	52	Australia
28	Lloyds Banking Group	51	UK
29	Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group	50	Japan
30	Bank of Montreal	48	Canada
31	UBS	46	Switzerland
32	ING Group	45	Netherlands
33	Capital One	43	USA
34	Bank of New York Mellon	43	USA
35	China Minsheng Banking Corp.	39	China
36	China CITIC Bank	38	China
37	Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria	37	Spain
38	Mizuho Financial Group	37	Japan
39	Intesa Sanpaolo	37	Italy
40	Credit Agricole	35	France
41	Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce	35	Canada
42	Royal Bank of Scotland	34	UK
43	Barclays	33	UK
44	Credit Suisse Group	31	Switzerland
45	Nordea Bank	30	Sweden
46	Standard Chartered	29	UK
47	KBC Group	27	Belgium
48	UniCredit	27	Italy
49	Societe Generale	21	France
50	Deutsche Bank	16	Germany

The data used in this work have been collected from the main financial sites. For all of the banks, the market cap refers to July 2019 and are expressed in billions of USD.