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Agricultural Bank of China Limited (ABC, ), also known as AgBank or 农行 ''Nóngháng'', is one of the "Big Four" banks in the People's Republic of China. It was founded in 1951, and has its headquarters in Dongcheng District, Beijing.〔"(Contact Us )." Agricultural Bank of China. Retrieved on February 27, 2014. "Address:No.69,Jianguomen Nei Avenue,Dongcheng District,Beijing, P.R.China,100005"〕 It has branches throughout mainland China, Hong Kong, London, Tokyo, New York, Frankfurt, Sydney, Seoul, and Singapore. ABC has 320 million retail customers, corporate clients, and nearly 24,000 branches. It is China's third largest lender by assets. ABC went public in mid-2010, fetching the world's biggest ever initial public offering (IPO) at the time,〔(AgBank to pay $248mln in IPO fees, lowest of Big 4 ), July 15, 2010〕 since overtaken by another Chinese company, Alibaba. As of 2011, it ranks 8th among the Top 1000 World Banks, meanwhile Forbes Global 2000 named it the 25th-largest public company in the world. In 2014, it ranks 3rd in Forbes’ 11th annual Global 2000 ranking of the biggest, most powerful and most valuable companies in the world. ==History== Since the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, ABC has been formed and abolished several times. In 1951, two banks of the Republic of China, Farmers Bank of China and Cooperation Bank, merged to form the Agricultural Cooperation Bank, which ABC regards as its ancestor. However, the bank was merged into People's Bank of China, the central bank in 1952. The first bank bearing the name Agricultural Bank of China was founded in 1955, but it was merged into the central bank in 1957. In 1963 the Chinese government formed another agricultural bank which was also merged into the central bank two years later. Today's Agricultural Bank of China was founded in February 1979. It was restructured to form a holding company called Agricultural Bank of China Limited. It was listed on the Shanghai and Hong Kong stock exchanges in July 2010.〔(Agricultural Bank of China may offer shares to the public by 2010 )〕 In April 2007, ABC was the victim of the largest bank robbery in Chinese history. This occurred when two vault managers at the Handan branch of the bank in Hebei province embezzled almost yuan (US$7.5 million).〔("Suspects of China's largest bank theft go on trial" ), Lin Li, ''Xinhua News Agency'', July 24, 2007〕 In 2012, ABC started a project to migrate to the Avaloq Banking System.〔(【引用サイトリンク】)=597&tx_nxnews_display()=2012&tx_nxnews_display()=show&tx_nxnews_display()=News&cHash=97fbb53757c137762e5b0d4f7918a435">title=Avaloq group wins first customer from China - News – Avaloq )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Customers – Avaloq )〕 During the 2013 Korean crisis, the Agricultural Bank of China halted business with a North Korean bank accused by the United States of financing Pyongyang's missile and nuclear programs. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Agricultural Bank of China」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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