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Dal90 t1_jbgfxuj wrote

Also consider this was before bank mergers in the US really started getting BIG.

1980s was the time of creating regional powerhouses, 1990s saw those regional powerhouses start combining into nationwide retail banks. Post 2008 saw forced mergers and blurring between investment and retail banks trying to save each other (by Federal arm twisting). Five of the top 25 are now American banks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_banks while Japan has 4 of the top 25.

Inflation adjusted, $353B = $873B in 2022 which today would put a bank about 45th globally.

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NikonuserNW t1_jbhmzxd wrote

Interstate banking in the US wasn’t really a thing until…the mid 90s? Once banks started branching out across the country, they got pretty big.

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Time_Possibility4683 t1_jbhah6n wrote

The top 4 being all Chinese when none of them was on the list in the 80's is a huge shift.

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