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• New Measures to Lift Veil on Banks' Capital Ratios

  The game may soon be up for banks that have made themselves look healthier by understating how risky their businesses are, which should help pension funds, savers and companies to decide which institutions to invest in.

• Iceland: Meager Returns on Fervent Prosecutions

  

  In a country that has gone after financiers with far more vigor than others hit by the financial crisis, obtaining convictions has proved devilishly difficult.

• BofA website troubles causes by internal systems issue -source

  Feb 1- Some Bank of America Corp customers weren't able to access their online banking accounts on Friday because of an internal systems issue, a person familiar with the matter said. Customers logging into Bank of America's website on Friday received a message that said the site was "temporarily unavailable."

• Bank of America Plagued by Online, Mobile Outages

  BAC experienced widespread outages Friday on its website and mobile banking apps due to an internal technical malfunction, according to a person familiar with the situation.

• Big Banks Still Bruised 

  

  As the Dow marches towards a record, bank shares are still nowhere near their highs hit before the financial crisis, reports CNBC's Kayla Tausche. Anton Schutz, Mendon Capital Advisors, and Frederick Cannon, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, weigh in.

• Banks Left Behind? 

  

  Despite gains in 2012, CNBC's Kayla Tausche reports the banks are the worst performing sector since 2007 market highs. AIG was the single worst performer down more than 96 percent.

• Big Money Managers Riding the Dow Rally

  

  Long before the Dow hit 14,000, a number of big money managers predicted the rally—and have ridden it to handsome returns.

• How to Fix the Debt Problem 

  

  Insight on America's debt crisis, with Erskine Bowles, Campaign to Fix the Debt; Alan Simpson, Campaign to Fix the Debt; and CNBC's John Harwood.

• WRAPUP 1-Fed officials see brighter global economic outlook

  WASHINGTON/ NEW YORK, Feb 1- Two top Federal Reserve officials painted a picture of cautious optimism on Friday for the U.S. economy in 2013, helped by stronger global growth as the central bank aggressively prints money to curb the nation's lofty rate of unemployment. But New York Federal Reserve President William Dudley and St.

• Italian bankers stood by Monte Paschi chief despite scandal

  ROME, Feb 1- Giuseppe Mussari, former chairman of Monte dei Paschi, has few friends these days as a scandal swamps the bank. A 50- year-old lawyer from Calabria with a passing resemblance to the late screen legend Marcello Mastroianni, Mussari had not sought a new term as Monte dei Paschi chairman and left the bank on April 27, 2012.

• UK Banks Lost $1.5 Billion Brand Value 

  

  David Haigh, CEO at Brand Finance, says UK banks lost $1.5 billion brand value on the money laundering and Libor scandals.

• Have Euro Zone Tail Risks for Banks Gone? 

  

  Bill Blain, senior fixed income broker at Mint Partners, says the euro zone crisis will kick off again.

• UPDATE 1-Fed's Bullard paints upbeat picture for 2013 US growth

  WASHINGTON, Feb 1- The U.S. economy is on track for a better performance this year and improving growth will put the Federal Reserve in a position to slow or halt its massive bond-buying program, a top central bank official said on Friday.

• WRAPUP 2-Mexico central bank split over rate-cut signal -minutes

  *One dissenter to January rate cut signal. MEXICO CITY, Feb 1- Mexico's central bankers disagreed over whether to send a signal that they might cut interest rates if inflation keeps cooling, according to minutes of their January discussions, released on Friday.

• Barclays CEO Won't Take a 2012 Bonus

  

  New Barclays chief executive Antony Jenkins said he will not take a bonus for last year, saying he should "bear an appropriate degree of accountability" for a difficult year at the bank.

• UPDATE 1-Banks slow crisis money repayment to ECB

  FRANKFURT, Feb 1- Banks will pay back only another 3.5 billion of emergency 3- year loans from the European Central Bank in a second repayment window next week, suggesting a whopping 137 billion handed back this week was a one-off show of strength.

• Dutch in $14 Billion Rescue for SNS Reaal

  

  The Netherlands has nationalized bank and insurance group SNS Reaal in a $14 billion rescue that highlights the fragility of European banks and the continued exposure of taxpayers five years after the financial crisis erupted.

• Will Banks Lead the Market Lower?  

  

  Ashok Shah, CIO at London and Capital, tells CNBC that banks have been given a ¿free lunch¿ borrowing at very low cost in order to boost their profitability.

• Yuan closes near 4-week low; China c.bank reacts to Asian currency war

  SHANGHAI, Feb 1- China's yuan closed near a four-week low on Friday after the central bank appeared to intervene to weaken the currency in response to declines in the yen and other Asian currencies.

• Could Europe's Banks Ignite Another Crisis? 

  

  Chris Wheeler, bank analyst at Mediobanca, tells CNBC that the big question is what state the balance sheets of European banks are in.