The Banker’s Top 1000 World Banks ranking reflects the ebbs and flows of our world. When I first looked that the list in the 1980s, it was Japanese banks that dominated what was then the top 500 ranking. Twenty years later, it was the US banks. Today, it’s the Chinese banks. Looking ahead 20 years, who will be in the lead?
World trade is not static, obviously. It moves with the times, expanding and contracting like a living organism. Change is constant. The big question for a global bank is how to be relevant in the time we have reached now. Or, more importantly, how can it be relevant in the time we move to next?
