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Top 1000 World Banks 2019

While the global banking system is undoubtedly safer a decade on from the height of the financial crisis, years of a low-volatility bull market along with several sharp shocks rocked many lenders in 2018. Shrinking assets in Europe and central Asia, lacklustre profits everywhere but North America and an uncertain economic environment point towards a slowdown. Kat Van Hoof assesses the numbers.
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It has been impossible to escape the retrospectives on the 10 years since Lehman Brothers collapsed in late 2008, the year when the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) was briefly the biggest bank in the world by total assets and Bear Stearns was 'fine'. The true depth of the liquidity crisis in the global banking sector was only beginning to become apparent on balance sheets in The Banker's 2009 Top 1000 World Banks ranking. US banks made up the top three, with JPMorgan at the front of the pack. The UK's RBS and HSBC rounded off the top five, with ICBC the lone Chinese bank in eighth place.

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