Reply to: World's 50 safest banks 2009

[BlightyBoy]

Note not a single British bank on the list, will British banking ever recover its reputation. Answer : No !!!!

err...

Did you even read the list?

HSBC - 19
Nationwide - 42 and
Barclays - 45

I'm surprised Nationwide Building Society got in there as a bank. :P.

Even there was a clue for you.

Tip: Great Britain + NI = United Kingdom

[ThomasSoerensen]

CHF 30,000, due to rise to CHF 100,000

But it's not clear from that article when it actually comes into force,

Thanks.

I had read somewhere else - possibly wikipedia - that in CH there was no concept of Government Guarantee.

I feel slightly safer now.

[Foxy Moron]

You dirty robbing scoundrel, I ate your chickens with a nice chiante

[BrilloPad]

I've got all my money stashed in my Den

I had. I burgled you last night.

HTH

[Foxy Moron]

I've got all my money stashed in my Den

[eliquant]

I'm with BBVA in Spain 13th safest or so, I wasn't happy going with Banco Santander as it has exposure to Britain in the form of "The Abbey".

Note not a single British bank on the list, will British banking ever recover its reputation. Answer : No !!!!

[Sysman]

Do you have a link. I would not mind being proven wrong,

CHF 30,000, due to rise to CHF 100,000

But it's not clear from that article when it actually comes into force,

BERNE, Nov 5 (Reuters) - The Swiss government said on Wednesday it was raising its bank deposit guarantee to 100,000 Swiss francs ($85,400) from 30,000 francs as part of a package to shore up the country's crucial financial industry.

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The increase in the Swiss deposit guarantee comes after the European Union agreed last month to raise the minimum guarantee in the bloc to 50,000 euros ($68,300), with the European Commission proposing a further rise to 100,000 euros by the end of 2009.

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The government is lifting the total amount it is ready to guarantee to protect investors to 6 billion francs from 4 billion. The measures will come into force as soon as necessary laws are changed and will be valid until Dec. 31, 2010.

[ThomasSoerensen]

CHF 30'000, I understood.

Most of my money doesn't spend much time there anyway. It goes into the cantonal bank. Which is somewhat safer.

Do you have a link. I would not mind being proven wrong,

[Svalbaard]

Rubbish Svaal-Bank is the worlds safest bank.

[NotAllThere]

CHF 30'000, I understood.

Most of my money doesn't spend much time there anyway. It goes into the cantonal bank. Which is somewhat safer.

[ThomasSoerensen]

Well, my business account is with Credit-Suisse, so that's ok. But my personal is with UBS. I'll just have to ensure I keep it below the maximum safe level.

And what do you believe to be the "maximum safe level".
If you are thinking of a guarantee level guaranteed by the government or some such then that level is 0. Zero.

HTH.

[PM-Junkie]

Me too. Makes me doubt the validity of the list.....

BNP Paribas at EIGHT will raise one or two eyebrows too!

[BrilloPad]

I'm surprised Nationwide Building Society got in there as a bank. :P.

Me too. Makes me doubt the validity of the list.....

[pmeswani]

http://www.gfmag.com/admin/mods/abmR...t_mid_year.pdf

I'm surprised Nationwide Building Society got in there as a bank. :P.

[Cyberman]

I'd like to have seen what their list was a year ago !!