Germany’s Commerzbank launched a partnership with anti-fraud and anti-money laundering (AML) technology firm Hawk. The collaboration, announced in a news release Tuesday (March 10), is designed to optimize the bank’s internal processes by supplementing its existing compliance system with Hawk’s AML AI Extended Risk Model....
Deutsche Bank CEO Christian Sewing said Wednesday that German businesses need less regulation, a more competitive corporate tax structure and greater certainty on energy prices. Speaking at a Financial Times (FT) global banking summit in London, Sewing said: “We clearly need certain structural reforms,” the...
Germany’s Deutsche Bank is reportedly benefitting from uncertainty surrounding a possible takeover of rival Commerzbank. Commerzbank’s customers are increasingly turning to Deutsche Bank for funding, Jan-Philipp Gillmann, head of Deutsche Bank’s German/European corporate banking division, told attendees at an event at Frankfurt. This is happening...
The chief of Germany’s central bank wants bank mergers to produce robust, competitive institutions. “We need strong and robust banks so that companies can tackle and finance their future tasks,” Bundesbank chief Joachim Nagel said while addressing a Commerzbank event in Frankfurt on Wednesday (Sept....
May 04, 2026
Eurogroup President Kyriakos Pierrakakis says Europe needs larger banks and more cross-border banking mergers. He made these comments to reporters Monday (May 4) when asked about UniCredit’s plans to acquire Commerzbank. “We need European rather than national champions and yes, we need more banking consolidation in Europe, we need more cross-border M&As,” said Pierrakakis, whose comments were reported by Bloomberg […]
March 11, 2026
Germany’s Commerzbank launched a partnership with anti-fraud and anti-money laundering (AML) technology firm Hawk. The collaboration, announced in a news release Tuesday (March 10), is designed to optimize the bank’s...
December 04, 2024
Deutsche Bank CEO Christian Sewing said Wednesday that German businesses need less regulation, a more competitive corporate tax structure and greater certainty on energy prices. Speaking at a Financial Times...
November 26, 2024
Germany’s Deutsche Bank is reportedly benefitting from uncertainty surrounding a possible takeover of rival Commerzbank. Commerzbank’s customers are increasingly turning to Deutsche Bank for funding, Jan-Philipp Gillmann, head of Deutsche...