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• Banks in Euro Zone Getting Act Together 

  

  Daniel Harden, Senior Commercial Dealer at Global Reach Partners says the euro zone looks healthier as banks have stopped borrowing emergency funds and have started paying back their loans.

• Investing in Europe 

  

  Nicholas Ferres, Investment Director, Global Asset Allocation at Eastspring Investments discusses his calls in the European market.

• Small Lenders Ride US Mortgage Wave

  

  Scores of independent mortgage lenders and community banks are winning business from banks such as Citigroup or Bank of America that have retrenched after the financial crisis.

• ANALYSIS-Small lenders ride US mortgage wave as big banks cut back

  Feb 4- Guaranteed Rate, Inc, a home loan company, opened shop in 2000 in Chicago with a single office. Most of that growth has come in the last two years and Chief Executive Victor Ciardelli said in an interview he is not planning to slow down.

• UK Sets Out New Law to Break Up Errant Banks

  

  British banks that fail to guard their day-to-day banking from risky investment activities will face being dismantled, finance minister George Osborne is set to say later on Monday.

• Chinese Banks Venture Into Ecommerce

  

  Banks are not normally the floggers of kettles and smartphones, duvets and leather shoes. But China Construction Bank, the world's second-largest lender by market value, is undeterred by convention. The Financial Times reports.

• This Week, Watch What Central Bankers Say, Not Do

  

  Central banking is in a state of flux as policymakers from Tokyo to Washington ditch prevailing orthodoxies to try to grab a bigger share of a slow-growing global economic pie.

• GLOBAL ECONOMY-Watch what central bankers say, not what they do

  LONDON, Feb 3- Central banking is in a state of flux as policymakers from Tokyo to Washington ditch prevailing orthodoxies to try to grab a bigger share of a slow-growing global economic pie.

• 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

  

  As chief of police in a tiny fishing town for 11 years, Olafur Hauksson developed what he thought was a basic understanding of the criminal mind. The typical lawbreaker, he said, recalling his many encounters with small-time criminals, “clearly knows that he crossed the line” and generally sees “the difference between right and wrong.” The New York Times reports.

• 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.