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Adam Cole, head of currency strategy at RBC, says central banks' forward guidance is the major factor in driving currency volatility down and explains why he??s not as negative on the euro as the market seems to be. more...

Discussing the security for bitcoin, and its exchanges, with Jaron Lukasiewicz, Coinsetter founder & CEO. more...

More than a dozen banks are being probed by the NY Department of Financial Services regarding possible manipulation in the foreign exchange markets. more...

Thomas Curry, Comptroller of the Currency of the United States, talks about the financial industry's proposal to raise standards around how banks take risks. The measure would affect institutions with at least $50 billion in assets. more...

CNBC's Mary Thompson reports that Chinese authorities are restricting banks use of bitcoins, but ordinary people can use the virtual currency at their own risk. more...

Garrick Hileman, PhD candidate at LSE, says bitcoin poses a risk to the Chinese control capital regime. more...

Hong Kong is looking into suspected price manipulation in the $5.3 trillion-a-day global foreign exchange market, becoming the first authority in Asia to join the investigation. more...

How do you make money in these markets? Here is what some of the experts have been saying to CNBC. more...

The euro nursed modest losses in Asia on Tuesday after the European Central Bank said it stood ready to do more to keep market rates down. more...

Sterling has lost over 90 percent of its value since the 1970s: hardly a good advertisement for the stability of public money. So why is it only central banks have the right to print money? more...

European leaders need to agree on decisive action on Greece and a coordinated approach to strengthen Europe's banks when they meet on October 23, the European Commission said on Wednesday. more...

Asian economies that showed great resilience post the 2008 financial crisis have led the recent global rate tightening cycle, however, threats of a global economic slowdown are now forcing central banks in the region to quickly reverse course. more...

Moody’s downgrade of 12 British banks last week is irrelevant to the current* state of the UK banking sector, analysts told CNBC.com, adding that hell has a better chance of freezing than any British bank failing. more...

The Fast Money Halftime Traders share investment advice on the rallying markets, and assess which are the best sectors now, with Pete Najarian, Optionsmonster.com; Stephen Weiss, Short Hills Capital; Steve Grasso, Stuart Frankel; Zachary Karabell, River Twice Research. Also, details of today's...

Moody's Investors Service downgraded nine Portuguese banks on Friday due to increased asset risk as a result of the banks' holdings of Portuguese government debt and the sovereign downgrade of Portugal in July to Ba2 with a negative outlook . more...

Europe’s top banking regulator has started to re-examine the strength of the region’s banks, modelling a big writedown of all peripheral eurozone sovereign debt, reported the FT. more...

Europe needs between 100 billion and 200 billion euros to recapitalize its banks to win back investor confidence, the International Monetary Fund's European Department Director Antonio Borges said on Wednesday. more...

The Japan Bank for International Cooperation will offer credit lines worth $43 billion to three major banks to counter the effects of a strong yen, the Nikkei Japanese daily reported. more...

For bank investors, the third quarter is one they’d rather erase from their minds – and portfolios alike. European banks were down by more than 25 percent and saw their worst performance since the fourth quarter of 2008, when the collapse of Lehman brothers shook the markets. more...

Hungary's decision to help its citizens pay back the foreign exchange loans they took at the height of the economic boom a few years back has sparked outrage among banks and spooked foreign investors. more...