"Whilst this liquidity is in the market, the market continues to rise, assets will continue to reflate. But it is important to get a reality check because this market will carry on until such time as we start paying the bill for that asset reflation," Andy Hartwill from Quasar said Thursday.

The yen traded close to a 14-year high against the dollar Thursday. Daragh Maher from Calyon told CNBC it would be a "ministry of finance decision" to take steps to monitor the yen's strength. He sees the dollar-yen testing further lows.

The concerns regarding Chinese banks are "a little bit inflated," Roger Groebli from LGT Capital Management, said Thursday. Chinese banks' Tier 1 ratios "are among the highest in the world, so there is no particular reason to increase the loans," he said. Bernhard Langer from INVESCO Asset Management joined the discussion.

Daily Mail & General Trust beat its forecast with a 23% drop in full-year pretax profit Thursday. DMGT CFO Peter Williams told CNBC the group's net debt, which increased slightly to £1.049 billion, is "very comfortable."

"The Swiss financial sector (is) adopting the global standards on exchange of information in tax matters," Urs Roth, CEO of Swiss Banking Association, said Thursday as he considers the future of the industry. Swiss banks have weathered the crisis well, he added.

"There's a certain risk that growth will surprise to the upside in the very short term. This is due to a normalization of inventories and the usual thing of people being too skeptical," Christian Gattiker from Julius Baer said Thursday. "The second half of next year is still rather on the bumpy side."

In February Swatch said 2009 would not be that bad and that there would be an improvement throughout the year, and so far we have been right, Nick Hayek Jr., CEO of Swatch, told CNBC. He added that the Swiss watch group has seen month-by-month increases, especially over the last 3 months.

The recent disagreements between the US and Switzerland over secret Swiss bank accounts is only a spat and the broader relationship has not been harmed, Martin Naville, CEO of Swiss American Chamber of Commerce, told CNBC Thursday.

The British public are "sleepwalking" into major spending cuts and tax increases and there "will be a very rude wake-up call for the majority of people who have no idea how bad the finances are for the country," Andy Brough from Schroders told CNBC Thursday.

Hopefully the worst is behind the Swiss banking industry, but there are major changes ahead for the private banking industry, Daniel Senn from KPMG told CNBC Thursday.