Libor scandal: Barclays still one of the big guns
Last year’s profit of $9.1 billion (£5.8bn) put it 18th on The Banker magazine’s list of the biggest 1,000 lenders.
HSBC was the only UK bank to better it, coming in seventh, with a surplus of $21.9bn. Overall, UK banks lost out amid strong competition from the Chinese.
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Top profits
1 Industrial Commercial Bank of China $43.2bn
2 China Construction Bank $34.8bn
3 Bank of China $26.8bn
4 JP Morgan Chase & Co $26.7bn
5 Agricultural Bank of China $25.1bn
6 Wells Fargo & Co $23.3bn
7 HSBC Holdings $21.9bn
8 Mitsubishi UFJ $17.6bn
9 Citigroup $14.7bn
10 BNP Paribas $12.5bn
11 Sberbank $12.3 bn
12 Bank of Communications $10.4bn
13 Banco Santander $10.2 bn
14 Sumitomo Mitsui $10.1bn
15 Itau Unibanco Holding $9.7 bn
18 Barclays $9bn