Canada, World's Soundest Banks. America, 40th, Behind Namibia.
From the World Economic Forum.
Canada has the world's soundest banking system, closely followed by
Sweden, Luxembourg and Australia, a survey by the World Economic Forum
has found as financial crisis and bank failures shake world markets.
But Britain, which once ranked in the top five, has slipped to 44th place behind El Salvador and Peru, after a 50 billion pound ($86.5 billion) pledge this week by the government to bolster bank balance sheets.
The United States, where some of Wall Street's biggest financial names have collapsed in recent weeks, rated only 40, just behind Germany at 39, and smaller states such as Barbados, Estonia and even Namibia, in southern Africa.
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