Updated quarterly, for the most up-to-date information, Weiss Ratings Guide to Banks offers accurate, intuitive safety ratings your patrons can trust, supporting ratios and analyses that show an institution's strong & weak points, identification of the Weiss Recommended Companies with branches in your area, a complete list of institutions receiving upgrades/downgrades, and comprehensive coverage of every bank and thrift in the nation ? more than 9, 000. Weiss Safety Ratings are then based on the analysts? review of publicly available information collected by the federal banking regulators. The easy-to-use layout gives you: the institution's Weiss Safety Rating for the last 3 years, the five key indexes used to evaluate each institution, along with the primary ratios and statistics used in determining the company's rating. Weiss Ratings Guide to Banks will be a must for individuals who are concerned about the safety of their CD or savings account, need to be sure that an existing line of credit will be there wh