Top 10 Richest Banks in the World


Bangalore: Money, wealth, assets are the things which makes you rich and when you deposit your wealth in a bank, they become rich too. Bankers Almanac has ranked the banks worldwide, based on their total assets in U.S. dollars. Let’s have a glance at the top ten of them -

1. Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Asset Value: U.S. $2,804,332 Mn

Deutsche Bank AG is a leading German global investment bank. It’s a leading bank in Germany and Europe, and is rapidly spreading in the North America, Asia and other emerging markets. It has an employee count of more than 1,000,000 people in over 74 nations in 3,083 branches spread across the globe. Josef Ackermann is the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Group Executive Committee of the Deutsche Bank.

2. BNP Paribas SA, Paris, France

Asset Value: U.S. $2,546,693 Mn       

BNP Paribas S.A. is a globally operating banking group, headquartered in Paris, with its second global headquarters in London. It was formed in 2000 after the merger of Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP) and Paribas. BNP Paribas purchased a 75 percent stake in Fortis Bank, the Belgian banking business, which has made BNP the Eurozone's largest bank by deposits.  BNP Paribas was ranked as the largest bank and largest company in the world on 2011, as measured by total assets of US$2.670 trillion, by Bloomberg and Forbes.

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