five years ago.
>>> alberto gallo is our guest
host for the next hour.
welcome from rbs.
we're very pleased to have you
with us.
i know you've been looking
closer at the bank.
i want to talk about general
europe definitely in more
detail, but starting off with
the banks, you've done some
research about where the strong
banks are in europe at the
moment.
are we still seeing a lot of the
weakness that was there a year,
two years ago, persisting in
periphery euro?
>> well, i think many of the
banks have recapitalized.
there's less liquidity concerns
with the ecb action.
italy and spain, a two-tier
banking system is starting to
development.
but generally speaking, there is
a slow de-lev raemging
trajectory.
banks have delevered $2 trillion
of assets over the last year in
europe.
>> 2 trillion?