The Crisis: One Year Later

The stock market has already undergone a double dip and investors waiting for another leg lower have "got it badly wrong," Piers Curran from Amplify Trading told CNBC Wednesday. Espen Baardsen from Eclectica and Derek Halpenny from Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi joined the discussion.

"We can look forward to historically low interest rates (in the US) for a very long period of time," Mike Lenhoff from Brewin Dolphin Securities told CNBC Wednesday. Christian Gattiker from Julius Baer joined the discussion.

Royal Bank of Scotland is considering a $6.5 billion rights issue, which would reduce its dependence on the UK government. Kit Juckes from ECU Group and Ralph Silva from TowerGroup consider the outlook for UK banks.

Government talk of banking regulation is pushing financial institutes such as Citi, Lloyd's, and RBS to pay back loans. Peter Lenardos from Arden Partners told CNBC Monday, “the banks came to the government, the lender of last resort, and now with all these restrictions being talked they’re worried about their talent exodus they’re worried about the scrutinization of their books.”

The short-term market objective is to get back to pre-Lehman levels, but longer term there will be major changes in how companies manage their balance sheets, Gunnar Stangl, CFA at Commerzbank, told CNBC Friday.

The rate of spending from the private equity industry will rise rapidly over the next few years as there is a lot of cash in reserve, Jon Moulton, former managing partner of Alchemy Partners, told CNBC Friday.