Foreign Owned Bank Deposit Guarantee Limits

[galleryman]

Is there a table showing the various limits for each of the different Government bank Guarantee Schemes?
eg
UK FInancial Services Compensation Scheme
Dutch Deposit Guarantee Scheme
etc

 

[galleryman]

Sorry forget that, I just found it.

 

[Kev]

I know that the UK grarantee limit is £50k. I could be wrong, but I think that the EU said all depostis would be guaranteed for 100k, does anyone know angthing about this.....

 

[Lightning]

UK regulated banks are 50,000 GBP until December 31st 2010 and 100,000 EUR from January 1st 2011.

 

[Godfather]

Italy = 102K Eur per person per institution

 

[Chris]

Belgium €100k per person per institution for deposits and €20k for equities.

 

[Delboy]

is your cash safe in the likes of Rabo Ireland etc if this country went bust as opposed to BoI or AIB

 

[demoivre]

is your cash safe in the likes of Rabo Ireland etc if this country went bust as opposed to BoI or AIB

Yes, up to €100k. See here.

 

[Lightning]

is your cash safe in the likes of Rabo Ireland etc if this country went bust as opposed to BoI or AIB

Safer, yes.

 

[iamaspinner]

Safer, yes.

Hi CiaranT, could you elaborate a little on that, please? When or how would deposits in Irish branches of foreign banks (e.g. Rabo) not be safe?