Three Chinese banks in world's top four: study
May 1, 2008
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PARIS (AFP) -- Three Chinese institutions were among the world's top
four banks at the end of 2007 at a time when the market capitalisation
of Western banks was suffering from a global financial crisis, a study
showed Wednesday.
The number one spot in the rankings, compiled by the Boston Consulting
Group, was occupied by the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China,
with market capitalisation of nearly 340 billion dollars (218 billion
euros).
In second place was China Construction Bank, followed by HSBC of
Britain, Bank of China, Bank of America and Citigroup of the United
States.
The study found that banks in North America and Western Europe had
suffered a loss of 695 billion dollars in market capitalisation at the
end of 2007 while their counterparts in emerging market countries
Brazil, Russia, China and India had seen their market capitalisation
increase by 753 billion dollars.
Major US and European banks have suffered losses and asset writedowns
stemming from the near collapse of US subprime -- high risk --
mortgage sector, which undermined the value of billions of dollars'
worth of their mortgage-backed securities.
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