FACTBOX-Combined ABN, Barclays ranks 5th in world
(Reuters) - British bank Barclays has agreed to buy Dutch rival ABN AMRO in a deal worth about 67 billion euros ($91 billion) to create the world's fifth largest bank.
As part of the deal, Barclays is selling ABN's Chicago-based U.S. bank LaSalle to Bank of America for $21 billion in cash, conditional upon its purchase of ABN.
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BANK, MARKET CAPITALISATION
1. Citigroup, $262.4 billion
2. Bank of America Corp, $228.3 billion
3. ICBC, $219 billion
4. HSBC Holdings Plc, $215.7 billion
5. Barclays-ABN AMRO, $192.55 billion Continued...
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