Published: 03 Dec 2012
Last Updated: 09 Oct 2013
HSBC holds on to the top spot despite looming money-laundering probes at home and abroad. But there is hardly a bank not facing some sort of official enquiry these days, and underlying profits for Q3 are up 125% to £3.2bn. Second is Standard Chartered, which has had its own $430m brush with the US authorities this year over alleged Iranian sanctions-busting. In third place comes the Co-Op Bank, whose deal to buy 600 branches from Lloyds will more than triple the size of its network and give it 7% of UK current accounts. It also takes the overall award for community and environmental responsibility – proving that banks can be good citizens if they try.
BMAC 2012 by sector: Banking
| Ranking | Name | Score |
| 1. | HSBC | 63.6 |
| 2. | Standard Chartered | 57.3 |
| 3. | Co-operative Bank | 56.0 |
| 4. | Barclays | 55.1 |
| 5. | Nationwide BS | 53.4 |
