Global Finance
    
    Names esk spoitelna the World’s Safest Bank 2013 in Central & Eastern Europe
   
  

   
    New York, August 26, 2013
   
   –
   
    
     Global Finance
    
   
   magazine has named the
   
    Safest Banks in Central & Eastern Europe
   
   in an exclusive survey to be published in the October 2013 issue. Winners were selected through an evaluation of long-term credit ratingsfrom Moodys, Standard & Poors and Fitchand total assets of the 500 largest banks worldwide.
  
Czech banks land the top two spots on the list this year, but Polish and Russian banks each take four spots in the top ten.
The full report evaluates the safest banks in Western Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, the Middle East, North America, Latin America and Australasia.
   Bank counterparty assessment has become an intrinsic part of the job of a CFO and treasurer, says
   
    Global Finance
   
   publisher Joseph D. Giarraputo.
   
    Global Finance
   
   s Safest Banks ranking provides an objective tool for benchmarking and analysis of regional banks.
  
| Rank | Group Name | Country | 
| 1 | esk spoitelna | Czech Republic | 
| 2 | Komern banka | Czech Republic | 
| 3 | PKO Bank Polski | Poland | 
| 4 | Bank Pekao | Poland | 
| 5 | ING Bank lski | Poland | 
| 6 | BRE Bank | Poland | 
| 7 | Vnesheconombank | Russia | 
| 8 | Sberbank | Russia | 
| 9 | VTB Group | Russia | 
| 10 | Rosbank | Russia | 
Ratings current as of July 30, 2013
 
                     
                     
                    