{"id":1572,"date":"2016-04-16T02:01:28","date_gmt":"2016-04-16T02:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2016-04-14T15:32:51","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T15:32:51","slug":"the-worlds-largest-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=1572","title":{"rendered":"The Worlds Largest Banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The top four largest banks based on assets on the balance sheet:<\/p>\n<p>$3,420 Billion = \u00a32,401 Billion: The Industrial &amp; Commercial Bank of China<br \/>\n$2,826 Billion = \u00a31,984 Billion: The China Construction Bank<br \/>\n$2,740 Billion = \u00a31,924 Billion: The Agricultural Bank of China<br \/>\n$2,589 Billion = \u00a31,817 Billion: The\u00a0 Bank of China.<\/p>\n<p>All Chinese.<\/p>\n<p>The UK&#8217;s HSBC is in 6th position (just behind JP Morgan) with assets of $2,409 Billion =<strong> \u00a31,691 Billion<\/strong>. To put that into context, The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation&#8217;s\u00a0assets are still larger than the annual GDP of the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top four largest banks based on assets on the balance sheet: $3,420 Billion = \u00a32,401 Billion: The Industrial &amp; Commercial Bank of China $2,826 Billion = \u00a31,984 Billion: The China Construction Bank $2,740 Billion = \u00a31,924 Billion: The Agricultural Bank of China $2,589 Billion = \u00a31,817 Billion: The\u00a0 Bank of China. All Chinese. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1574,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions\/1574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}