Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank Germany's finance ministry is getting antsy about the outlook for the country's two biggest banks, Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank, and is reportedly looking ever closer at a merger between the two—though that decision would ultimately be up to the banks, not the government. Financial Times
There's been a great deal of discussion the past few years about European Banks and marginal risk vs. capital metrics, balance sheets, a plethora of non-performing loans, and corporate governance. Also, investors have openly questioned the lack of stringency and the validity with respect to the European Union's bank stress tests. The EU relies upon each bank's internal models to judge if capital requirements are adequate; the US Fed uses their own proprietary models and the Fed stress tests are deemed more transparent and rigorous. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-12-03/europe-bank-stress-tests-need-improvement
%% US depositers are most likely protected, with public limits, what is it $250 ,ooo??. But not protected are the shareholders.WSJ had an article, dont remember when, a top official of US FED[ bank regulator] was meeting with DB.
Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Twenty years ago if someone told me that Deutsche Bank out of all institutions would crash like that I'd have laughed in their face.
Deutsche and Danske The Danske Bank money-laundering scandal just got more intense, after the Federal Reserve opened an investigation into how Deutsche Bank's U.S. business handled suspicious transactions from the Danish bank. Danske used its German counterpart, among other banks, to move money abroad. Bloomberg