Asia-Pacific banks are on the rise while deposit outflows shrink US banks
NEW YORK, April 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Chinese banks extended their dominance as the world’s largest lenders in 2022 despite rate hikes and slowing economic growth while their global peers saw declines in balance sheets, according to the largest Global Bank Ranking published by S&P Global Market Intelligence, an annual ranking of the 100 largest banks in the world in terms of total assets.
The number of Chinese banks on the list of the world’s 100 largest banks by asset rose to 20, from 19 in 2021, after Bank of Ningbo Co. Ltd. joined the list at No. 89. The country’s largest banks continued to hold the top four slots.
“Elevated inflation, interest rate hikes and the Russia–Ukraine war damped global economic growth and investor sentiment in 2022,” said Nathan Stovall, director of financial institutions research at S&P Global Market Intelligence. “Chinese lenders were not immune to these pressures either, but their growth was far stronger than institutions in other parts of the world as the People’s Bank of China maintained an easing bias while most major central banks, led by the US Federal Reserve, significantly tightened monetary policy and created pressure on bank liquidity.”
While assets held by the 100 largest banks as of the end of 2022 totaled $111.97 trillion, down 1.5% from $113.67 trillion a year earlier, aggregate assets rose 2.4% at the 19 Chinese banks that appeared on the lists of both 2021 and 2022. The four largest Chinese banks expanded their assets 4.1% to $19.87 trillion in 2022 from $19.08 trillion in 2021. Agricultural Bank of China Ltd. led the big four’s gains with a 7.5% increase.
The biggest climber on the world’s 100 largest bank list was UBS Group AG, which surged to 20th place from 34th in 2021. Its $1.61 trillion asset size has been adjusted to incorporate troubled Credit Suisse Group AG, which UBS agreed to take over in an emergency deal in March. UBS…
