The Independent Commission on Banking (ICB) is mulling whether to split banks' retail and investment operations.
Business Secretary Vince Cable will today launch a wide-ranging attack on the "murky world of corporate behaviour".
HSBC, Barclays and Nationwide are the only British institutions to register in Global Finance's list of the world's 50 safest banks but no UK names appear in the top 10.
More than a tenth of the 7,380 banks in the US remain at risk of failure despite the sector posting strong profit growth during the second quarter.
UK banks could be under further pressure to curb lending after the G20 drafted rules to force them to bolster balance sheets by as much as £130bn.
The US Congress is finally close to completing the largest policy reform of the financial sector since the 1930s.
Exchange-traded product provider Source has seen total assets in its exchange-traded commodities (ETC) range surpass the €500m mark in the year since launch.
The Government is unlikely to push for the break-up of the UK's major banks and instead will favour new guidelines to govern the relationship between retail and investment arms.
Many advisers will be disappointed this morning the FSA is likely to survive as new Chancellor George Osborne has been forced to water down plans to hand over banking supervision to the Bank of England.
Barclays' pre-tax profit for Q1 soared by 47% on the same period last year to £1.82bn, helped by a reduction in bad debts.