Bank of England

The necessary steps to improve investor fortunes

Keeps interest rates and QE at current levels

Upcoming regulatory work

Three steps for markets to bounce back

'Let the buyer beware'

Following calls from regulators to cut payouts

Investors could be forgiven for thinking that nowhere is an immediately appealing prospect for investment right now, least of all Europe.

Four of the UK's five largest banks

Share buybacks also ruled out

Bank of England called into action