BNP Paribas, the parent of First Hawaiian Bank, ranked 8th on Global Finance magazine's recently published list of the "World's 50 Safest Banks 2009."

The list was compiled using a comparison of the long-term credit ratings and total assets of the 500 largest banks around the world, according to Global Finance magazine. The magazine used Credit ratings from Moody's, Standard & Poor's and Fitch.

The entire list can be viewed at http://www.248am.com/images/safest_Banks.pdf.

First Hawaiian Bank with $13 billion in assets, is the state's largest bank when ranked by assets.