The following is a list of the largest international banks based on market capitalization. The top five banks include three U.S. banks and two Chinese banks.
| Rank | Bank | Market cap (US$b, December 22, 2017) | Number of Employees |
| 1 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 375.528 | 243,355 |
| 2 | Bank of America Corp | 312.814 | 208,000 |
| 3 | Industrial & Commercial Bank of China | 312.386 | 461,749 |
| 4 | Wells Fargo | 306.485 | 269,100 |
| 5 | China Construction Bank | 228.308 | 356,050 |
| 6 | HSBC Holdings | 205.705 | 232,350 |
| 7 | Citigroup | 200.468 | 213,000 |
| 8 | Bank of China | 165.788 | 304,490 |
| 9 | Royal Bank of Canada | 117.292 | 80,000 |
| 10 | Commonwealth Bank of Australia | 108.073 | 45,610 |
| 11 | Banco Santander | 106.337 | 200,950 |
| 12 | Toronto-Dominion Bank | 105.389 | 83,160 |
| 13 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial | 103.104 | 117,130 |
| 14 | Goldman Sachs Group | 102.264 | 35,800 |
| 15 | Morgan Stanley | 95.873 | 55,311 |
| 16 | BNP Paribas | 93.289 | 192,419 |
| 17 | Westpac | 81.872 | 35,096 |
| 18 | Itau Unibanco | 78.844 | 96,330 |
| 19 | Bank of Nova Scotia | 77.314 | 88,645 |
| 20 | UBS Group | 70.389 | 59,387 |
| 21 | Lloyds Banking Group | 66.030 | 70,260 |
| 22 | Australia & New Zealand Banking Group | 65.155 | 44,900 |
| 23 | Bank of Communications | 62.911 | 92,556 |
| 24 | Sumitomo Mitsui Financial | 62.306 | 79,450 |
| 25 | National Australia Bank | 61.564 | 33,422 |
| 26 | Banco Bradesco | 60.153 | 108,793 |
| 27 | BBVA | 57.210 | 134,792 |
| 28 | Intesa Sanpaolo | 56.438 | 89,126 |
| 29 | Bank of New York Mellon | 55.799 | 52,000 |
| 30 | Bank of Montreal | 51.184 | 45,200 |
| 31 | Nordea Bank | 48.974 | 31,596 |
| 32 | DBS Group | 47.092 | 22,194 |
| 33 | Mizuho Financial Group | 46.971 | 61,700 |
| 34 | Barclays | 46.226 | 119,300 |
| 35 | Credit Suisse Group | 45.932 | 47,170 |
| 36 | Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce | 42.789 | 44,928 |
| 37 | State Bank of India | 42.642 | 209,567 |
| 38 | Unicredit | 42.268 | 94,066 |
| 39 | Societe Generale | 42.214 | 145,700 |
| 40 | Deutsche Bank | 40.013 | 99,744 |
| 41 | Standard Chartered | 33.820 | 86,693 |
| 42 | United Overseas Bank | 31.689 | 23,904 |
| 43 | ICICI Bank | 31.401 | 81,130 |