FACTBOX-Combined ABN, Barclays ranks 5th in world

Mon Apr 23, 2007 5:27pm BST
 
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(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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