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“five” closed the British Royal Bank Of Scotland and HSBC. And yet last year was the first line.

The biggest losses last year, suffered a Royal Bank Of Scotland – nearly 60 billion Citigroup has lost 53 billion dollars, Wells Fargo – 47,8 billion U.S.

the global banking industry profits fell last year to 781 billion dollars to 115 billion dollars, while revenues from the shares fell from 20 to 2.69 percent.

strengthen the position of JP Morgan Chase, holding a year ago, the fourth position in the list, helped sink them in the past year, banks Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual. Bank of America managed to hold down a list of the top due to the absorption of investment bank Merrill Lynch.

Of the Asian banks most stable proved to Japanese Mitsubishi UFJ, занявший 7 th place. He pushed for the eighth Trade and Industrial Bank of China / ICBC /. However, it is the Chinese bank was in the classification of the most profitable magazine in the world, earning U.S. $21.3 billion second return was also a Chinese China Construction Bank – 17,5 billion dollars This is followed by Spanish Santander – 15,8 billion dollars, Bank of China – 12,6 billion USD and the Spanish BBVA – 9,6 billion British HSBC and Barclays, respectively, earned 9.3 billion and U.S. $8.9 billion