Test your knowledge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_banks_in_the_U... I might have known 50% of the top 20 maximum.

I know 7 from list 1..10 and 2 from list 11..20

When I saw that they were insolvent, I looked up the bank rankings and saw their position. Out of the top 20, I am familiar with probably 14-15.

You think most people don’t know who American Express (17th) are?

Citizens Financial Group (16th) is also quite large but I would be shocked if someone didn’t know of Amex rather than did.

Most know of them, but would have absolutely no idea how large they are.

Off the top of my head, I guess the largest are:

* JPMorgan

* Goldman

* Wells Fargo

* BoA

I’m not surprised to see that American Express is a large bank, but if you’d asked me to produce a list of large banks, I wouldn’t have included any credit card companies.

Of course, a credit card company having a bank attached is not very weird at all. I mean a bank sprouted out of GE that one time, which seems much less on-mission.

Most of the top 20 are household names. Many in the top 50 as well. However, a few are top ranked because they have strong regional presence in tech/finance capitals and Silicon Valley is of course one of them.