Bank · Commercial · Beijing

ICBC

The world's largest bank by total assets, established in 1984 as part of China's banking reforms. It is majority state-owned and serves a vast corporate and retail customer base in China and abroad.

Legal name: Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited
Type: Commercial
Headquarters: Beijing
Jurisdiction: China
Ownership: State-owned
Founded: 1984
Primary regulator: NFRA (China)
Licensing: State-controlled commercial bank licensed and supervised by China's National Financial Regulatory Administration; its shares are also listed in Shanghai and Hong Kong.
Total assets ≈: $6.3tn (approx., seed-0.1 · 2026-08-28)
Website: www.icbc-ltd.com
Markets profile: finance.foundation/banks/icbc-bank (listing, identifiers, valuation)

Corporate bankingRetail bankingTreasury operationsTrade financeAsset management

Graph connections

domiciled_inChina jurisdiction_regulatorsNFRA instant_railIBPS (retail dominated by Alipay / WeChat Pay)

Commercial peers

JPMorgan Chase · Bank of America · Citigroup · HSBC · BNP Paribas · Deutsche Bank

Approximate reference data from public sources · seed-0.1 · 2026-08-28 · not real-time, not advice. See data & methodology.

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