World leaders on Friday identified 29 banks deemed so important to the global financial system that they require more capital and closer supervision, as well as a plan that would safeguard taxpayers should they fail.

Leaders at the G-20 summit endorsed a new tax on banks to be levied depending on the amount they hold in assets, Reuters reported late Friday. Officially called a "surcharge," the graded fee will start at 1 percent of risk-weighted assets, rising progressively to up to 2.5 percent for those with the biggest balance sheet.

The tax would be phased in over three years from 2016. The FSB did not specify which tax bracket each bank would fall into.

The list of banks released by the Financial Stability Board (FSB) includes 17 European and eight U.S. lenders, as well as four Asian banks.

The U.S. banks:

1. Bank of America
2. Bank of New York Mellon
3. Citibank
4. Goldman Sachs
5. JPMorgan Chase
6. Morgan Stanley
7. State Street
8. Wells Fargo.

The European institutions:
9. Lloyds Bank
10. Royal Bank of Scotland
11. Barclays
12. HSBC
13. Credit Agricole
14. Societe Generale
15. BNP Paribas
16. Banque Populaire
17. Deutsche Bank
18. Commerzbank
19. UniCredit
20. UBS
21. Credit Suisse
22. Deixa
23. ING
24. Banco Santander
25. Nordia

The banks from Asia:
26. Bank of China
27. Sumitomo Mitsui Banking
28. Mizuho Financial
29. Mitsubishi UFJ.

Iniciado por el_gitano

Según tengo entendido era que estos 29 bancos son "too big to fail" y por eso se les va a exigir mayores reservas de capital. No tiene nada que ver con que esten "jodios".