Who are the biggest banking houses in the world today? Who is lending and creating the money?As in lending the Governments/corporations etc money Interested in you views on who is in control of the interest rstes in the UK? Is the bank of England owned by shareholders? who controls the federal reserve ? Who is the bank of Rome? what do they do? What about the Rothschilds bank? who is making all... |
Top ten banking groups in the world ranked by tier 1 capital
Figures in U.S. dollars, and as at end-2005[2]
Citigroup — 79 billion
HSBC — 74 billion
Bank of America — 73 billion
JP Morgan Chase — 72 billion
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group — 64 billion
Credit Agricole Group — 60 billion
Royal Bank of Scotland — 48 billion
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group — 40 billion
Mizuho Financial Group — 39 billion
Santander Central Hispano — 38 billion
Top ten banking groups in the world ranked by assets
Figures in U.S. dollars, and as at end-2004[3]
UBS — 1,533 billion
Citigroup — 1,484 billion
Mizuho Financial Group — 1,296 billion
HSBC Holdings — 1,277 billion
Crédit Agricole — 1,243 billion
BNP Paribas — 1,234 billion
JPMorgan Chase & Co. — 1,157 billion
Deutsche Bank — 1,144 billion
Royal Bank of Scotland — 1,119 billion
Bank of America — 1,110 billion
Top ten bank holding companies in the world ranked by profit
Figures in U.S. dollars, and as 2003
Citigroup — 21 billion
Bank of America — 15 billion
HSBC — 10 billion
Royal Bank of Scotland — 8 billion
Wells Fargo — 7 billion
JP Morgan Chase — 7 billion
UBS AG — 6 billion
Wachovia — 5 billion
Morgan Stanley — 5 billion
Merrill Lynch — 4 billion
Top ten banks in the world ranked by market capitalisation
Figures in U.S. dollars, and as at 26 July 2006[4]
Citigroup — 235 billion
Bank of America — 230 billion
HSBC — 200 billion
JPMorgan Chase — 150 billion
Mitsubishi UFJ — 145 billion
Wells Fargo — 120 billion
UBS — 110 billion
Royal Bank of Scotland — 100 billion
China Construction Bank — 100 billion
Mizuho — 95 billion
I suggest you read "The Age of Jackson" by Schlesinger. They asked the same questions two hundred years ago.
They are still trying to answer them. Before central banks, banking was conducted by private banks (Rothschild). But government thought it was too undemocratic for private bankers to have so much power. So, they set up government banks controlled by politicians and bureaucrats who are, theoretically, answerable to the people. Most interest goes to pension plans, then to pensioners. However, the Federal Reserve owns a lot of bonds that get interest. This is returned to the US Treasury every year. The market controls interest rates in the end.
