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Matthew Phan, Credit Analyst, CreditSights comments on DBS' latest earnings results. He says with strong capital and liquidity, DBS has the opportunity to take business from European banks that are pulling out of Asia.

CNBC's Becky Quick has the highlights from billionaire investor Warren Buffett's trip to India.

Abdulla Al Awar, CEO of DIFC, told CNBC, "I don't believe that Dubai actually lost its edge over the course of the past three years, if we look at some of the statistics we understand that despite the global economic crisis we did see an influx of institutions nevertheless coming in."

As many European banks trim lending to Asia, U.K.-based Standard Chartered's Group CEO, Peter Sands, says it will use this deleveraging as an opportunity to expand its market share in Asia.

The Australian market is looking "cheap", notes Justin O'Brien, vice president, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. Greg Canavan, editor of Sound Money, Sound Investments, however, is taking a more cautious stance. They share their views with CNBC's Oriel Morrison.

Megan Murphy, investment banking correspondent at the Financial Times, told CNBC, "today at Barclays they have provided an unprecedented level of disclosure about remuneration at the bank this year and I think that show exactly where banks are feeling, they feel such mounting pressure from politicians and the public about this."

Bill Strazzullo, partner and CMS at Bell Curve Trading, told CNBC, "I don't know if it is going to be possible to sustain job increases of 200,000 a month like we saw in December and January, I think a lot of that number was a result of the unseasonably warm weather, I am a little bit sceptical."