The 5 Safest U.S. Banks?

by Anand Chokkavelu, The Motley Fool Oct 10th 2012 8:00PM
Updated Oct 10th 2012 8:06PM

When Global Finance came up with a list of the "World's Safest Banks 2012" earlier this year, no U.S. banks were in the top 25, and only five were in the top 50. These were:

•Bank of New York Mellon

•CoBank ACB

•US Bancorp

•Northern Trust

•Wells Fargo

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