This visualization is an analysis of the largest publicly traded banks headquartered in European Union member states. The goal was to capture a clear snapshot of the EU banking landscape and compare institutions by their relative market valuations.

Data Source: All market capitalization figures come directly from MarketCapWatch, using their live data feed as of August 28, 2025. Values are converted from local currencies to U.S. dollars using the exchange rates provided by MarketCapWatch at the time of data capture. Only publicly listed banks headquartered in EU member countries were included.

Methodology:

  • Rankings are based solely on market capitalization, not total assets, revenue, or other metrics.
  • Data was manually reviewed to ensure that only eligible EU-headquartered banks were included.
  • No adjustments were made for free float, dual listings, or ADR structures.

Tools: The dataset was compiled, cleaned, and organized in Microsoft Excel, with the final bar chart created in Infogram for presentation.

Posted by Proud-Discipline9902

18 comments

  2. Rabobank is not on there as it’s not publicly traded – it’s a ‘cooperative bank’ – but it’s market cap is estimated that it would be around 45B.

  3. Denmark’s Danske Bank seems to be missing – it would have a cap of $34b.

  4. For anyone wondering about the U.S.

    Chase has a market cap of $826B, more than the top 8 EU banks combined

  6. I’m surprised to see Italian and Spanish banks on the top. Does anybody know why?

  7. And yet you can only give me a 1.5% interest rate Santander?

    Cheap mfers.

  8. ABN AMRO Bank = **A**lgemene ***B****ank* **N**ederland **AM**sterdamse *Bank* **RO**tterdamse *Bank* ***Bank***

    ING Groep = **I**nternationale **N**ederlanden ***G****roep* ***Groep***

    Rabobank = **Ra**iffeisen*Bank* **Bo**erenleen***Bank*** *bank*

    ASN Bank = **A**lgemene **S**paar*bank* **N**ederland ***Bank***

  9. *Cries in Sparkasse*

    Just kidding, but this list leaves out a lot of context if you only narrow it down to the given parameters. Sparkasse in Germany, if viewed as a single entity, would eat a lot of these banks for breakfast, with weißwurst and mustard on the side.

  10.  For comparison sake if you added Canada to this, the Royal Bank of Canada would be the 3rd biggest by capitalization.

     The Toronto Dominion Bank or TD Bank as we call it would be 5th largest.

     Bank of Montreal would be the 9th largest

     

  11. Would be interesting to see the non-publicly traded banks

  13. I’m like why isn’t State Street in there with a 32b market cap. Then I saw it’s EU. Reading is fundamental.

  15. Now show us nationalities of their CEOs… Which passport they all posess?

  16. Wow I always assumed Deutsche bank was the largest because of all the scandals they end up being involved with.

    And shouldn’t there be some Swiss banks on here?

  17. Really should have included UK headquartered banks as well, or attempted to strip out the UK operations.
    eg. Santander has major operations in the UK & is the sixth largest bank.

  18. When comparing the sizes of banks, total assets is used, rather than market cap, because market cap describes the value of the corporation that operates the bank, rather than the size of the bank itself. By that measure BNP Paribas is biggest, around $2.87 trillion.

    Imagine comparing the size of two auto manufacturers – you’re going to look at how many cars they make, not their stock price.

    For comparison, the Unicredit, ranked higher on this list, has a paltry $880 billion.

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