World's Top 10 Banks, by Assets (2004)

The Economist, Robert Cottrell, 18 May 2006Borrowing and lending has become a fairly well-understood line of business, and a fairly well-managed one most of the time in most of the world. It is the banks themselves that are volatile, shifting shapes and strategies as furiously as their regulators will allow them in their efforts to win markets and market share. In China they are escaping state