Royal Bank of Scotland is expected to report its first quarterly profit in 18 months on Friday, the fruit of efforts to focus on bread and butter lending.
Greg Gibbs, Senior Currency Strategist at RBS, & Paul Gambles Managing Partner of MBMG International, discuss various scenarios impacting the U.S. dollar. They also shed light on the state of Scottish pound and what it means for the Sterling.
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Japan's largest lender by assets, is in advanced talks to buy U.S. commercial property loans from Deutsche Bank worth about $3.7 billion.
Australia is scrapping the panel that sets interbank lending rates after the proposal of new international guidelines and an exodus of the banks that set the rate in the wake of the Libor rate-rigging scandal.e.
John McCormick, Chairman, Asia Pacific at RBS discusses the bank's return to health after Bank of England Governor Mervyn King recommended splitting RBS into a 'good' and 'bad' bank last week.
Simon Maughan, financials sector strategist at Olivetree Financial, tells CNBC that the RBS valuation indicates that the bank is not expected to generate high returns for a long period of time.
Monte dei Paschi pumped up its bid for Antonveneta to trump a rival offer from France's BNP Paribas, paving the way for an eventual state bailout of the world's oldest bank.
David Enrich, European banking editor at The Wall Street Journal, tells CNBC the extent of the Libor scandal means the repercussions look set to continue well into next year.