Top 50 Banks of the World by market value

Recently, I was searching for the list of World's top ten banks. I couldn't find any such recent ranking available on free domain. So, I went to the FT's Global 500 (December 2008) list companies and sorted Banks and Financial Services companies. FT publishes top 500 companies based on their market value at the end of every quarter. This list takes the value as on 31 Dec 2008. Here goes the list:

	Company	Country	MCap $b
1	Indl & Coml Bank of China	China	173.9
2	China Construction Bank	China	128.3
3	JP Morgan Chase	US	117.7
4	HSBC	UK	115.2
5	Bank of China	China	98.2
6	Wells Fargo	US	98.0
7	Banco Santander	Spain	75.0
8	Bank of America	US	70.6
9	Mitsubishi UFJ Financial	Japan	70.1
10	BBVA	Spain	45.1
11	Intesa Sanpaolo	Italy	44.1
12	U. S. Bancorp	US	43.6
13	UBS	Switzerland	40.9
14	Royal Bank Canada	Canada	40.9
15	BNP Paribas	France	38.3
16	Citigroup	US	36.6
17	Bank of Communications	China	34.6
18	Westpac Banking	Australia	34.1
19	Sumitomo Mitsui Financial	Japan	32.7
20	Unicredito Italiano	Italy	32.4
21	Mizuho Financial	Japan	31.8
22	Banco Itau	Brazil	30.8
23	Credit Suisse	Switzerland	30.4
24	Toronto Dominion Bank	Canada	29.8
25	Commonwealth Bank of Australia	Australia	29.6
26	Societe Generale	France	29.1
27	Bradesco	Brazil	28.0
28	Royal Bank of Scotland	UK	28.0
29	National Australia Bank	Australia	27.2
30	Bank of Nova Scotia	Canada	27.2
31	China Merchants Bank	China	26.4
32	Hang Seng Bank	Hong Kong	25.1
33	Credit Agricole	France	24.8
34	Standard Chartered	UK	23.8
35	ANZ Banking	Australia	23.0
36	Al Rahji Banking	Saudi Arabia	22.4
37	Deutsche Bank	Germany	22.1
38	China CITIC Bank	China	19.3
39	Barclays	UK	18.5
40	Nordea Bank	Sweden	18.0
41	PNC Financial Services	US	17.1
42	Resona Holdings	Japan	16.9
43	State Bank Of India	India	16.8
44	Banco Brasil	Brazil	16.0
45	Sberbank of Russia	Russia	16.0
46	UniBanco	Brazil	15.8
47	CIBC	Canada	15.8
48	Lloyds TSB	UK	15.5
49	BB&T	US	15.2
50	Standard Bank Group	South Africa	13.7

Source: FT

This was the list of Banks. FT also has a sector category of financial services which may be quite related to Banks. Here is that list:

1	Goldman Sachs	US	33.4
2	Bank of New York Mellon	US	32.5
3	Visa	US	23.5
4	American Express	US	21.5
5	Charles Schwab	US	18.7
6	Merrill Lynch	US	18.6
7	CITIC Securities	China	17.5
8	Morgan Stanley	US	17.0
9	State Street Corporation	US	17.0
10	BlackRock	US	15.9
11	Nomura	Japan	15.8
12	Itausa	Brazil	15.5
13	Franklin Resources	US	14.8
14	MasterCard	US	14.1
15	Chicago Mercantile Exchange	US	13.9
16	Deutsche Boerse	Germany	13.8

Source: FT