Ukraine is located at the bottom of the list in the rating of the financial systems of the world for 2009, taking 53rd place out of 55, and worsening its position in the 2 lines as compared with last year's result.

This is evidenced by the results of a study conducted by the World Economic Forum (WEF), wrote RBC daily.

title of the largest financial center in the world this year was the United Kingdom, to take on first-place United States, which dropped to third place, passing forward, and even Australia. Interestingly, the first runner up in the rating of Australia - the only country in the top ten, which succeeded for the year to improve their economic performance.

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WEF ranking analysts take into account more than 120 different factors, such as financial stability of the country, the capital market, the state of economic and legal and business environment. As noted in the organization, their work allows countries to look at himself and to identify those economic sectors that need reform.

At the end of this year, most of the 55 indicators included in the list of countries have substantially decreased. In particular, the U.S. lost 0.73 points. Now a total score of last year's leader rating of 5.12 out of 7 possible. Problems caused by the financial crisis, was not spared and the UK. Last year it lost 0.55 points, but came out on top the list with the amount of 5,28 points.

According to experts, Britain and the United States managed to remain among the leaders of the rankings in the first place due to the volume of the market. And in terms of financial stability, these two countries is located at 37 th and 38 th places respectively, yielding, among others, Nigeria, Panama and Bangladesh.

Reduction of the number dialed by the United Kingdom and the United States points indicates their growing weakness and means that their leadership might soon be under great doubt, - said in a press release, WEF chief operating officer of the American branch of Kevin Steinberg. In addition, a list of losers of the year may be credited to Germany (the third place in 2008) and France (sixth place in 2008) that the new list were not included in the top ten.

a very different mood welcomed the results of ranking the world's largest fintsentrov in Australia, which rose to 9 seats and is now second only to Britain. WEF experts gave the green continent of 5,13 points, which is 0.15 points more than last year. According to analysts, the increase in rating was driven by government policy to create Australia's largest financial hub in the Asia-Pacific region. Since last year, substantially increased and the Asian tigers of Singapore (fourth rank-2009) and Hong Kong (fifth place). A year ago, they were given to the tenth and eighth place respectively.

World Economic Forum considered and financial situation in Russia. Compared with last year's rating of Russia lost 4 positions and won the 40-th place, is located between Poland and Hungary. A 47-th place in the rating took Kazakhstan.