S&P's BICRAs Measure Banking Risks For 86 Countries Nov 11

Standard & Poors, November 2011

Abstract
STOCKHOLM (Standard & Poor's) Nov. 9, 2011--Banking sectors across the globe still face trying times in the aftermath of the financial crisis. In this context, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services has reviewed its Banking Industry Country Risk Assessments (BICRAs) for 86 countries using its updated BICRA criteria. Our BICRA criteria enables an evaluation of individual banking systems, producing scores that classify systems into one of 10 groups, with group '1' being the lowest risk, and group '10' the highest (see "Banking Industry Country Risk Assessment Methodology And Assumptions," published on Nov. 9, 2011). Contributing to these overall scores are our assessments of economic risk and industry risk, which are the two main elements of the BICRA (see list below). We...

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- Australia (Commonwealth of) (Unsolicited Ratings)
- Austria (Republic of)
- Canada
- Denmark (Kingdom of)
- Finland (Republic of)
- New Zealand
- Norway (Kingdom of)
- Sweden (Kingdom of)
- Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
- France (Republic of) (Unsolicited Ratings)
- Japan (Unsolicited Ratings)
- United Kingdom (Unsolicited Ratings)
- Spain (Kingdom of)
- Germany (Federal Republic of) (Unsolicited Ratings)
- Belgium (Kingdom of) (Unsolicited Ratings)
- Italy (Republic of) (Unsolicited Ratings)
- Hong Kong (Special Administrative Region)
- Swiss Confederation (Unsolicited Ratings)
- Ireland (Republic of)
- Malaysia
- Thailand (Kingdom of)
- Korea (Republic of)
- Singapore (Republic of) (Unsolicited Ratings)
- United States of America (Unsolicited Ratings)
- Iceland (Republic of)
- Netherlands (The) (State of) (Unsolicited Ratings)
- Portugal (Republic of)
- Brazil (Federative Republic of)
- Greece (Hellenic Republic)
- Israel (State of)
- Taiwan (Republic of China) (Unsolicited Ratings)
- India (Republic of) (Unsolicited Ratings)
- China (People's Republic of )
- Tunisia (Republic of)
- Turkey (Republic of) (Unsolicited Ratings)
- Luxembourg (Grand Duchy of)
- El Salvador (Republic of)
- Hungary
- Indonesia (Republic of)
- Chile (Republic of)
- Oman (Sultanate of)
- Colombia (Republic of)
- Philippines (Republic of the)
- Argentina (Republic of) (Unsolicited Ratings)
- Czech Republic
- Uruguay (Oriental Republic of)
- Slovak Republic
- South Africa (Republic of)
- Poland (Republic of)
- Bermuda
- Paraguay (Republic of)
- Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of)
- Qatar (State of)
- Trinidad and Tobago (Republic of)
- Slovenia (Republic of)
- Russian Federation
- Kazakhstan (Republic of)
- Liechtenstein (Principality of)
- Egypt (Arab republic of)
- Latvia (Republic of)
- Croatia (Republic of)
- Panama (Republic of)
- Lebanon (Republic of)
- Costa Rica (Republic of)
- Lithuania (Republic of)
- Kuwait (State of)
- Morocco (Kingdom of)
- Estonia (Republic of)
- Peru (Republic of)
- Ukraine
- Bulgaria (Republic of)
- Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
- Papua New Guinea (Independent State of)
- Jamaica
- Mexico (State of)
- Guatemala (Republic of)
- Vietnam (Socialist Republic of)
- Bahrain (Kingdom of)
- Saudi Arabia (Kingdom of)
- Georgia (Government of)
- Nigeria (Federal Republic of)
- Cambodia (Kingdom of) (Unsolicited Ratings)
- Belarus (Republic of)
- Azerbaijan (Republic of)

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