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Benjamin Lawsky, New York State Department of Financial Services superintendent, weighs in on the Fed's decision to reject the plans of Citigroup to raise dividend payments and increase stock buybacks. more...

Art Cashin of UBS provides insight on China's economy, and how it's impacting the global market. more...

Barry Silbert, SecondMarket founder & CEO, discusses the launch of its newly-minted Bitcoin Investment Fund, which is a digital currency-focused fund for institutional and "sophisticated" investors. more...

Fund managers are more bullish on the dollar than ever before, with a record number expecting the greenback to strengthen in the next 12 months. more...

Willem Nabarro, head of European Equities (Asia) at Exane-BNP Paribas, urges investors to look for growth not value and emphasizes the importance of choosing businesses that have exposure to more than one market. more...

Individual European countries will "take actions to stabilize their own banking systems to make them resilient," Pimco’s Neel Kashkari told CNBC Tuesday. “[This will] allow the Greeks to default, and maybe even exit the euro zone." more...

"The sell-off in Chinese banking stocks is not too surprising in the sense that most of the news recently has been either neutral or negative on the banks," Phillip Chan, director at Shenyin Wanguo Securities, told CNBC. more...

Analysts point out that U.S. banks have become much better capitalized than they were during the financial crisis of 2008. But shares of US major banks continue to move sharply lower. more...

European banking stocks fell sharply Tuesday, with Unicredit and Deutsche Bank among the top losers, on fears that sovereign debt crises in peripheral euro zone countries might spread into the continent's larger economies and trigger a more widespread banking crisis. more...

A few weeks ago, Mike Farrell, head of Annaly Capital, a New-York based, non-bank finance firm, wrote a letter to his investors that pointed out that “in times of chaos ... those that survive aren’t necessarily the biggest or the bravest.” the FT reported. more...

Whilst the Bank of England sits on the sidelines, the boss of the European Central Bank is on Thursday expected to signal he will raise rates to curb inflationary pressures next month. more...