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The world's top 20 banks

All banks have been ranked by total assets in US$ in 2012.

Rank 2012	Bank	Country	Assets (Billion US$)
			2012	2011	2010	2009	2008
1	Royal Bank of Scotland Group	UK	2 801	2 790	2 673	2 950	3 513
2	Barclays	UK	2 740	2 689	2 549	2 737	3 002
3	Deutsche Bank	Germany	2 554	2 679	2 453	2 354	2 894
4	BNP Paribas	France	2 543	2 478	2 324	2 232	2 727
5	HSBC	UK	2 541	2 393	2 266	2 225	2 525
6	JP Morgan Chase	USA	2 447	2 324	2 263	2 221	2 173
7	Credit Agricole	France	2 429	2 318	2 157	2 194	2 172
8	Citigroup	USA	2 398	2 302	2 116	2 151	1 936
9	Mitsubishi UFJ Financial	Japan	2 341	2 262	2 131	2 030	1 920
10	ING Group	Netherlands	2 264	2 245	2 039	1 855	1 856
11	Bank of America	USA	2 127	2 235	1 912	1 724	1 816
12	UBS	Switzerland	2 095	1 955	1 706	1 666	1 738
13	Mizuho Financial	Japan	1 873	1 941	1 645	1 657	1 536
14	Societe Generale	France	1 866	1 816	1 633	1 635	1 484
15	Banco Santander (1)	Spain	1 837	1 797	1 628	1 591	1 463
16	UniCredit	Italy	1 827	1 784	1 580	1 480	1 457
17	Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC)	China	1 803	1 774	1 566	1 467	1 424
18	Wells Fargo	USA	1 655	1 771	1 548	1 407	1 308
19	China Construction Bank	China	1 619	1 651	1 513	1 331	1 102
20	Sumitomo Mitsui Financial	Japan	1 528	1 589	1 401	1 299	1 113

It is important to not that the figures above give an indication of the relative Assets at a specific time. These figures are dynamic and change with "take-overs" between banks, fluctuations in exchange rates between currencies (figures converted to US$ for the comparison) etc. It is however interesting to follow the trend of Assets of the most prominent banks over the last few years.

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