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World's Safest Banks
Global Finance selects the world's safest banks, the 50 institutions with the highest ratings from the leading international credit ratings agencies.
After two tumultuous years that saw many of the world's most respected banks drop out of the top-50 safest banks list, the dust appears to be settling. Those banks that kept an iron grip on their risk exposure before the financial crisis have consistendy topped the table and maintain their standing among the top echelon in this year's ranking. At the same time, the big-name banks that lost their safest bank ranking during the credit crunch are still absent from the list as they struggle to rebuild their credit standing.
Reassuringly, the very top-ranking banks are mostly unchanged from previous years, but the composition of the rest of the list clearly...