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Banking Research
 Fri Jan 12, 2007 12:46 am
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank
"Top ten banking groups in the world ranked by assets
At the end of 2006 HSBC had 1730 billion while Mitsubishi UFJ Finl. had 1700 and citigroup 1630 billion assets. Figures in U.S. dollars, and as at end-2004"
UBS — 1,533 billion
Citigroup — 1,484 billion
Mizuho Financial Group — 1,296 billion
HSBC Holdings — 1,277 billion
Crédit Agricole — 1,243 billion
BNP Paribas — 1,234 billion
JPMorgan Chase & Co. — 1,157 billion
Deutsche Bank — 1,144 billion
Royal Bank of Scotland — 1,119 billion
Bank of America — 1,110 billion
1.) UBS - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBS_AG
logo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ubs_diversity1.gif
slogan: You & Us.
"In January 1997, Christoph Meili, a night watchman at the Union Bank of Switzerland (as UBS was then known), found the bank historian destroying archives compiled by a subsidiary that had extensive dealings with Nazi Germany, in direct violation of a recent Swiss law (adopted on December 13, 1996) protecting such material. UBS acknowledged that it had "made a deplorable mistake", but maintained that the destroyed archives were unrelated to the Holocaust. Meili was suspended from his job at the security company that served UBS, following a criminal investigation into whether his whistleblowing had violated bank secrecy laws."
2.) Citigroup - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citigroup
logo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Citigroup_Logo.svg
slogan: "Live Richly."
"Citigroup was also accused of helping Enron and other companies hide their losses by loaning money to those companies in a special way that would reduce liabilities visible on the balance sheet. In May 2004 the company agreed to pay $2.65 billion, or $1.64 billion after tax, to settle a class action lawsuit brought on behalf of purchasers of WorldCom securities."
3.) Mizuho Financial Group - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizuho_Financial_Group
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuji_Bank
logo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mizuho.png
slogan: Channel to Discovery *lol @ banking with the discovery channel*
"During the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks on New York, Fuji Bank's United States offices were located at the impact zone of United Airlines Flight 175 in Tower 2. Fifteen Fuji Bank employees died in the attack."
4.) HSBC Holdings - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSBC_Holdings
logo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Logo_of_HSBC.svg
slogan: The world's local bank.
"Hexagon symbol
This was originally adopted by the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation as its logo in 1983. It was developed from the bank’s house flag, a white rectangle divided diagonally to produce a red hourglass shape. Like many other Hong Kong company flags that originated in the 19th century, the design was based on the cross of Saint Andrew."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_of_Saint_Andrew
5.) Crédit Agricole - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cr%C3%A9dit_Agricole
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cr%C3%A9dit_Lyonnais
logo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Logo_credit_agricole.gif
slogan: "The good direction."
"In 2001, Denis Robert and Ernest Backes book, Revelation, showed that Crédit Lyonnais was one of the many banks to detain unpublished accounts in Clearstream, a Luxembourg-based transaction clearing company, which has been accused by the authors of being a huge international money-laundering machine."
6.) BNP Paribas - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BNP_Paribas
http://www.puk.org/web/htm/news/nws/news030430b.html
logo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:BNP_Paribas_logo.gif
slogan: "The bank for a changing world."
"One of the largest private shareholders in BNP Paribas, the French bank that holds more than $13 billion in Iraqi oil funds administered through the United Nation's oil-for-food program, is an Iraqi-born businessman who once helped to arm Iraq in the 1980's and brokered business deals with Saddam Hussein's government, according to public records and interviews."
7.) JPMorgan Chase & Co. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPMorgan_Chase_%26_Co.
http://www.chemtrailcentral.com/forum/thread11576.html&sid=e3069d99d780cc8dd2ebe984db4ce52c
http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/index.php/Chase_Manhattan
logo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:JPMorganChaseLogo.png
slogan: "Chase: The right relationship." *far, far right*
"In August 1914, Henry P. Davison, a Morgan partner, traveled to England and made a deal with the Bank of England to make J. P. Morgan & Co. the monopoly underwriter of war bonds for England and France. The Bank of England became a "fiscal agent" of J. P. Morgan & Co. and vice versa. The company also invested in the suppliers of war equipment to England and France. Thus, the company profited from the financing and buying activities of the two European governments."
8.) Deutsche Bank - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Bank
logo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:DB_logo.gif
slogan: "A Passion to Perform."
Close contenders:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Naval_Ensign_of_Russia.svg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flag_of_Scotland.svg
(St. Andrew's Cross, AGAIN)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:ICS_Six.svg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:ICS_Mike.svg
"Its headquarters, the Deutsche Bank Twin Towers are located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany."
"On September 11, 2001, the Deutsche Bank building, located at 130 Liberty Street in New York City and acquired two years earlier as part of the merger with Bankers Trust, was damaged beyond repair as a result of the terrorist attack. Large pieces of debris from the Twin Towers hit the Deutsche Bank building and sliced a large hole into its center, destroying its main entrance and lobby.
Deutsche Bank sued their insurance carriers to require them to pay out the claims, and in December 2004, Deutsche Bank settled with the insurance carriers and then sold the building to the Lower Manhattan Redevelopment Corporation.
Deutsche Bank relocated most of its NYC Area units to 60 Wall Street - acquired earlier in 2001 and formerly occupied by J.P. Morgan Chase."
9.) Royal Bank of Scotland - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Bank_of_Scotland
logo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Royal_Bank_of_Scotland_logo.svg
*note: while I was searching this it was removed. I copy-clipped the link, then it was gone. Anyways, here's another link:
slogan: "A friend for life."
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Bank_of_Scotland&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=8&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DRoyal%2BBank%2Bof%2BScotland%2Bslogan%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D
http://www.rbs.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flag_of_Scotland.svg
You can see it's a blue 12-pointed star composed of 4 arrows on a white background.
"In August 2004, the bank expanded into China, acquiring a 10% stake in the Bank of China for £1.7 billion"
10.) Bank of America - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_America
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transamerica_Corporation
logo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:BankofAmericalogo.png
slogan: "Higher Standards." *grin*
"In 2004, a California jury decided that Bank of America had illegally raided the Social Security benefits of a million customers. The jury awarded damages that could exceed $1 billion. Bank of America had been accused of withholding customers' direct deposit social security benefit payments to cover debts in cases where a debt is owed to the bank by the customer (e.g.: due to an overdrawn account, various service fees, etc.); this practice violates California state law. The suit claims that Bank of America knew about the law and concealed the facts of this law from their customers. Bank of America counters that it only followed standard industry practice of using monthly pre-authorized direct deposits to cover overdrafts and the like. The case is on appeal."
"Giannini also sought to build a national bank, expanding into most of the western states as well as into the insurance industry, under the aegis of his holding company, Transamerica Corporation."
TransAmerica -
logo: http://www.life-line.org/image/co/ta_logo.gif
slogan: "The power of the pyramid."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transamerica_Pyramid
"During the Christmas holiday season, Thanksgiving, and 4th of July a bright, white light is lit on top of the pyramid."
"The original Transamerica building, located just down the street, is also a triangular-shaped building -- now occupied by the Church of Scientology of San Francisco."
"The Transamerica Pyramid is often called the "Pyramid Building" by tourists. Locals sometimes refer to it as "the dunce cap."
This is just a partial list. Keep researching and keep posting! |
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perverted_introvert
Joined: 06 Jun 2006
Posts: 2006
Location: Chicago |
| Running the Numbers
Fri Jan 12, 2007 9:53 pm
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If we add up the assets of the top 10 wealthiest banks, it totals:
$12,597,000,000,000.
This is such an abstract number that it's tough to comprehend.
If we divide it by the population of the Earth, say 7,000,000,000 (7 billion), we see that if divided equally among the population of the Earth, each person would receive roughly $1800!
The current US National Debt stands at:
$8,676,588,267,672.
Divided by the population of the United States, each American citizen now owes roughly:
$28,800.
http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/ |
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