text: Nout Wellink, former president and chairman of De Nederlandsche Bank
  Fred Zuliu Hu, former IMF and World Economic Forum official
  Controversies
  In 2005, the Chinese government arrested several government officials in addition to bankers with regards to the accusation of a scheme to take illegally US$900 million from ICBC.
  ICBC lent $400 million towards the completion of the Gibe III dam in Ethiopia. Groups that opposed the dam such as International Rivers and Survival International have complained about or have written to ICBC against the dam's funding.
  In November 2015, ICBC Standard Bank, an overseas subsidiary acquired in February of that year, agreed to pay a fine of a maximum of $40 million to UK authorities.
  On 17 February 2016, the Spanish Guardia Civil supported by Europol, arrested six executives of the Spanish location of the bank accused of money-laundering, who were convicted in 2020 by the Audiencia Nacional.
  In 2018, the US Federal Reserve had found "serious deficiencies" of the bank on anti-money laundering protections.
  On 12 August 2021, a former senior banker at Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Gu Guoming was sentenced to life in jail by Chinese authorities, after being found guilty of bribery.
  Awards
  Forbes Global 2000 – the World's Largest Public Company