finance.foundation / Banks / Bank of China
Bank · State-owned commercial bank
Bank of China
The most internationalized of China's Big Four state banks, founded in 1912, with branches in over 60 countries. A key clearing bank for offshore renminbi.
- Type
- State-owned commercial bank
- Jurisdiction
- China
- G-SIB designation
- Yes — on the Financial Stability Board’s list of global systemically important banks (the FSB republishes it each November)
- Total assets ≈
- $4.8tn (approx., as of Q2 2026 · our seed dataset seed-0.7 · marketcap-1 · 2026-08-30, sources)
- Listed parent
- Not in covered set
- LEI
- 54930053HGCFWVHYZX42 ISO 17442 — the operating bank
- BIC
- BKCHCNBJXXX ISO 9362 · chosen from 30 BICs on the record: the only one both in the entity's own country and carrying the head-office branch code
Approximate reference values from public sources · seed-0.7 · marketcap-1 · 2026-08-30 · not real-time. See data & methodology.
# this page as data
GET https://finance.foundation/api/v1/banks/bank-of-china
JSONCSV No key, CORS enabled — paste any of these straight into a notebook.
Code to fetch it
curl
curl -s https://finance.foundation/api/v1/banks/bank-of-china
Python
import requests
r = requests.get("https://finance.foundation/api/v1/banks/bank-of-china", timeout=30)
r.raise_for_status()
data = r.json()
JavaScript
const r = await fetch("https://finance.foundation/api/v1/banks/bank-of-china");
if (!r.ok) throw new Error(r.status);
const data = await r.json();
pandas
import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_csv("https://finance.foundation/api/v1/banks/bank-of-china.csv")