List of banks in Europe

This article lists the largest banks in Europe ranked by total assets, and provides links to lists of banks in individual European jurisdictions.

Largest banks in Europe

This list is based on the April 2025 S&P Global Market Intelligence report of the 100 largest banks in the world.[citation needed]

Rank Bank name Total assets (US$ billion) Headquarters city
1 HSBC 2,989.81 London
2 BNP Paribas 2,809.83 Paris
3 Crédit Agricole 2,693.58 Paris
4 Banco Santander 1,901.94 Santander (legal);
Madrid (operations)
5 Barclays 1,900.67 London
6 Groupe BPCE 1,646.53 Paris
7 Société Générale 1,601.74 Paris
8 UBS 1,563.32 Zürich
9 Deutsche Bank 1,436.15 Frankfurt
10 Crédit Mutuel 1,252.10 Paris
11 Lloyds Banking Group 1,135.12 Edinburgh (legal);
London (operations)
12 ING Group 1,056.57 Amsterdam
13 Intesa Sanpaolo 966.23 Milan;
Turin
14 NatWest Group 886.34 Edinburgh
15 Standard Chartered 849.69 London
16 UniCredit 811.68 Milan
17 BBVA 799.67 Bilbao (legal);
Madrid (operations)
18 La Banque Postale 766.91 Paris
19 DZ Bank 682.93 Frankfurt
20 CaixaBank 653.28 Barcelona
21 Rabobank 651.47 Utrecht
22 Nordea Bank 645.36 Helsinki
23 Commerzbank 574.23 Frankfurt
24 Sberbank of Russia 557.48 Moscow
25 Danske Bank 515.87 Copenhagen
26 Nationwide Building Society 498.77 London
27 ABN AMRO 411.66 Amsterdam
28 KBC Group 386.22 Brussels
29 Landesbank Baden-Württemberg 368.98 Stuttgart
30 Erste Group 366.22 Vienna

The methodology underlying that list does not take into account the specific features of institutional protection schemes in some European countries. Specifically in Germany, the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe disclosed combined total German assets of €2.5 trillion euros at end-2023,: 4  and the Cooperative Financial Group disclosed consolidated assets of €1.6 trillion. Considered as groups, these two would therefore have featured among the top ten in the above list.

Jurisdiction-specific lists

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