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The main reason why Belgium is being added to the PIIGS is the dangerous level of public debt. Various sources put it at about 100%! By contrast, Luxembourg has a public debt (averaged from various Internet sources) of about 20%.

Personally, I think you ought to move your Anglo money to UB. Firstly, Anglo now has a credit rating in deep junk, I wouldn't like to keep my money in a bank like that. Also, it looks like the process of winding-up Anglo is about to begin and it's not clear where the accounts will be moved to...

I think that a 'hard' Euro will most likely have the following members: Germany, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Austria and Finland. Sweden and Denmark may well join it. Belgium may not remain in the Euro, so those who have money in KeyTrade Belgium may want to shift some of it to KeyTrade...

Add to this KeyTrade Luxembourg: http://www.keytrade.lu/en/banking

KeyTrade is also in Luxembourg, which is a far more 'sound' country than Belgium. The Luxembourg KeyTrade seems to as much a fund manager as a bank. The bank part is here: http://www.keytrade.lu/en/banking

18B of that is our own money - from the NPRF. So the interest rate on the rest I think is about 7%. Can anyone calculate it exactly?

Germany wants punitive (7%) interest rate for Ireland It's possible things might not be decided tonight: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2010/11/germany_wants_punitive_interes.html

Interesting article here about how to burn a bank's bond holders - but without burning the depositors: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/paulmason/2010/11/ireland_corpse_bank_vs_zombie.html

Here's the ratings for NIB: [broken link removed] which appears to be the same as for Danske Bank: [broken link removed] Looks very safe as all give it various types of A.

RaboDirect is doing very well! "Rabobank benefits from deposit flight The public are flocking to move their money out of Irish banks and into foreign-owned banks including Rabodirect"...

The basic info to assess this I think is the country's debt in %, the deficit in % and the CDS (credit default swap) level. Just means a bit of digging around!

On the front page of the IT, it says that Anglo and INBS will be merged to form a 'bad bank'. I don't know why anyone would want to keep their money in that!

I think Ulster Bank is safe. So far as Anglo is concerned, it is the bank which has caused all this trouble, so you might want to think about your account there.

I wouldn't put my money in any of these accounts. It's like having Government Bonds, the yield is nearly 9% but everyone is rushing to sell!

I've just checked the ratings of Nationwide (UK): S&P is A+ Moody's is Aa3 Fitch is AA-

As far as I know, KBC is part of a Belgian bank and covered by the Belgian guarantee scheme. Can you confirm this?

From my point of view, if you already have a foreign bank account - use it! I currently work in Malaysia, and as I have an account in a Malaysian bank, I took the opportunity to shift some of my savings here. The rest is in an NIB account.

Try this: dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1331690/Banks-Ireland-brink-collapse.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Is this just irresponsible reporting by the MoS, or should we take it as a warning? Is it time to put our contingency plans into operation? "The Irish Central Bank is keeping them afloat after ECB said: ‘We won’t lend you any more’ Collapse would trigger €440bn bank guarantee... but IMF has...

I think it depends on the strength of the parent banks - RBS Group and Dansk Bank. I am sure they would try hard not to let their subsidiaries to go down because that would impact badly on them.