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Asia-PacificJuly 1 2007

China’s banking quadruplet comes to the fore

The big Chinese banks have burst into the top echelons of global banking and look set to stay. This year’s Top 1000 shows there are now two banks, ICBC and Bank of China, in the Top 10 world banks in seventh and ninth place, with China Construction Bank close behind in 14th place.
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From well down the rankings two years ago hugely successful initial public offerings have propelled these three into the major league, and with foreign shareholders and economic growth in China in excess of 10% the expansion should go on.

Despite stockmarket volatility, concerns over massive trade balances and record foreign reserves, China’s banks are coming out of the wilderness and huge banking growth in the past two years has created a dynamic platform for future expansion at home and abroad.

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