{"id":39986,"date":"2015-02-09T23:53:09","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T22:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/news\/snl-financial-hsbc-remains-firmly-atop-european-bank-market-cap-ranking\/"},"modified":"2019-12-30T23:22:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T22:22:50","slug":"snl-financial-hsbc-remains-firmly-atop-european-bank-market-cap-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/news\/snl-financial-hsbc-remains-firmly-atop-european-bank-market-cap-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"SNL Financial: HSBC remains firmly atop European bank market cap ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At \u20ac150.64 billion as of Dec. 31, 2014, HSBC&#8217;s market cap rose 6.60% from June 30, 2014, with its stock price increasing approximately 6% in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Santander hung on to its No. 2 spot despite a market cap decrease of 1.91% between June 30 and Dec. 31, during which time the Spanish lender&#8217;s stock price fell 8%. In early January 2015, it completed a \u20ac7.5 billion capital increase.<\/p>\n<p>With a market cap of \u20ac58.24 billion as of Dec. 31, Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc moved up to fifth place in the table, from seventh place as of June 30.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" aligncenter size-full wp-image-39984\" src=\"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/top_20_european_banks.jpg\" alt=\"top_20_european_banks.jpg\" align=\"center\" width=\"1000\" height=\"597\" srcset=\"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/top_20_european_banks.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/top_20_european_banks-300x179.jpg 300w, http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/top_20_european_banks-768x458.jpg 768w, http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/top_20_european_banks-990x591.jpg 990w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-39986 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-herald-lay-c1'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"herald-popup\" href='http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/top_20_european_banks.jpg'><img width=\"470\" height=\"313\" src=\"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/top_20_european_banks-470x313.jpg\" class=\"attachment-herald-lay-c1 size-herald-lay-c1\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/top_20_european_banks-470x313.jpg 470w, http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/top_20_european_banks-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/top_20_european_banks-414x276.jpg 414w, http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/top_20_european_banks-640x426.jpg 640w, http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/top_20_european_banks-130x86.jpg 130w, http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/top_20_european_banks-187x124.jpg 187w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HSBC Holdings, Banco Santander, Lloyds Banking Group and BNP Paribas held on to their top positions in SNL Financial&#8217;s new league table of Europe&#8217;s 20 largest banks by market capitalization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":39984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1470],"tags":[1671,1651,1437],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39986"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39987,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39986\/revisions\/39987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}