It also said it had commissioned an independent audit by one of the "big four accounting firms".
They command about nine-tenths of the financial resources of the big four state banks.
This is basically the argument behind concerns that the Big Four are too big to fail.
Within the big four emerging markets, Brazil and India are ranked highest at No. 2.
Savvy emerging market investors are looking beyond the big four emerging markets for faster growth.
Individual countries in the big four emerging markets, the BRICs, are doing even better.
In the No. 3 spot is Deloitte, one of the Big Four professional services firms.
The full Big Four will be represented, for the first time since June 2012.
The merger would remove one of the main sources of competition to the big four.
The merger would also remove one of the main sources of competition to the big four.
All the Big Four provide technical advice to Whitehall on the drafting of tax legislation.
Still, there is no guarantee that the Big Five are about to become the Big Four.
Out of the big four emerging markets, India is far and away the poorest.
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This is bringing the strategy shops into competition with the biggest players: the Big Four audit firms.
The big four are present through several brands they say compete in different segments of the market.
Consider some of the big four BRIC exchange traded funds like the Wisdom Tree India (EPI) ETF.
The European Commission wants to break up the Big Four, splitting their audit and their consulting businesses.
The big four accounting firms have grown to be like big, bad global corporations dominating too much.
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By offering the full array of oil-field services, the big four have an advantage over smaller rivals.
Estimates of the percentage of nonperforming loans in China's Big Four banks run between 25% and 40%.
Out of the big four emerging markets, Russia ranks as the most corrupt according to Transparency International.
The Big Four public accounting firms all provide services to growth companies that might one day go public.
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The Big Four global accounting firms make money whether clients survive and thrive or flail and fail.
The closest he came to landing one of the big four came in 2006 at the US Open.
Only Agricultural Bank, the Big Four bank with the deepest problems, has failed to attract a Western investor.
In SME banking, the commission concluded that the market was highly concentrated, and dominated by the big four.
The banks' conduct in the small-business market, where the big four have a dominant share, is under investigation.
No Big Four audit firms came but next-tier firms like Grant Thornton, McGladrey and Crowe Horwath sent professionals.
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Lending by the big four grew by a fifth in the year to October, according to Goldman Sachs.
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