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Richard Harris, Chief Executive of Quam Asset Management says that Chinese banks are more attractive than European banks despite reported issues concerning local debt. more...

John Noonan, Senior FX Analyst at Thomson Reuters, and Shrikant Bhat, Head of Wealth Management at Citibank Singapore Limited says that Asian banks are recycling U.S. dollar holdings into Euro diversification efforts, which is keeping it afloat, but issues from the recent crisis will creep in at...

Banks are in no better shape than they were in March 2008, Riccardo Ronco, technical analyst at Aviate Global, told CNBC. He suggested they still faced severe funding problems and that "things will get worse before they get better". more...

Some of Britain’s biggest banks have begun quietly ridding themselves of billions of pounds of assets they have found difficult to sell following the financial crisis, moving them off their balance sheets and into staff pension funds, the FT reports. * more...

A viewer tweeted me last week (@louisabojesen) saying "Don't phone lines exist between Berlin and Paris? Why was the face-to-face meeting necessary between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel?" more...

CNBC's Scott Wapner & Simon Hobbs with a look at European banks and the euro, and a discussion of China's plan to increase the value of the the yuan, with Mark Chadler,Brown Brothers Harriman. more...

The short-selling ban in France, Spain, Italy and Belgium are met with skepticism, with Gary Baker, Bank of America Merrill Lynch. "It's really a sovereigns issue versus a banks issue in Europe," he adds. more...

France's president and Germany's chancellor will meet early next week. Discussing whether Germany has the will to rescue Europe, with Michael Hewson, CMC Markets; CNBC's Michelle Caruso-Cabrera & Ross Westgate. more...

Jonathan Cavenagh, Currency Strategist at Westpac Bank, Australia (Sydney), says the Japanese and Swiss central banks will not stop intervening because both countries are dependent on export-generated economic growth. more...

The euro fell to fresh five-month lows against the yen in Asia on Thursday and looked set to stay under pressure as worries about the euro zone sovereign debt crisis spread to the region's banking sector. more...

Extreme market turmoil is forcing a marked shift in central bank policy, pushing the lenders of last resort to go places they would rather not. more...

Paul Dowling, Principal Analyst at East and Partners says Australia banks are experiencing low growth domestically, hence, they have started looking elsewhere for opportunities. more...

Steve O'Hanna, Investment Manager at Fat Prophets Funds Management, expects gold is becoming the official reserve currency again as people are losing faith in the U.S. dollar. more...

Discussing Europe's economic woes and its impact on banks, with Alpesh Patel, Praefinium Group. more...

As the yen continues to strengthen, a number of Japanese officials in recent days have been warning the market about one-sided moves. One analyst says yen intervention is a distinct possibility, and could be carried out on a global scale, if the market were to experiece a sudden sell-off in the...

Banks in Europe will be required to disclose more information about the number of their employees earning more than €1m under proposals put forward by Brussels. more...

Banks across Europe are braced to take as much as 17 billion euro ($24.5 billion) of writedowns on their holdings of Greek sovereign debt within a matter of days. more...

US banks should be allowed to take a hit from risky investments if the free market is to be preserved, Sean Corrigan, chief investment strategist at Diapason Commodities Management, told CNBC Monday. more...

Eight banks, including two Greek banks, five Spanish and one Austrian banks have failed the European Banking Authority stress tests, the agency said on Friday. more...

As many as six Spanish banks have failed the European stress tests, including five savings banks and one medium-sized bank, ABC newspaper reported on Tuesday, citing unnamed sources. more...