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  • Thursday, 11 February, 2021
    Commerzbank shelves dividend for 2 years

    German lender slumps to its biggest annual loss since the financial crisis

  • Tuesday, 2 February, 2021
    Wirecard AG
    Commerzbank fires its former Wirecard analyst

    Heike Pauls had briefed managers at payment group about hedge fund’s criticism

  • Thursday, 28 January, 2021
    Commerzbank to cut one in three jobs in Germany

    German lender will halve branch network by 2024 in radical restructuring plan

  • Thursday, 14 January, 2021
    Wirecard AG
    Commerzbank suspends coverage of groups tracked by former Wirecard analyst

    Move comes after it emerged that Heike Pauls had briefed payment group’s managers about hedge fund’s criticism

  • Tuesday, 12 January, 2021
    Wirecard AG
    Commerzbank warned BaFin about Wirecard in early 2020

    German lender severed some ties with the payments group after internal review

  • Friday, 8 January, 2021
    Commerzbank raises bad loan provisions as lockdown drags on

    Germany’s second-largest lender earmarks ‘at least’ €1.7bn for losses, its second increase since November

  • Thursday, 5 November, 2020
    Commerzbank readies for hit from lockdown insolvencies

    German lender ups provisions for loan losses, saying it must accept some small businesses will not make it

  • Monday, 28 September, 2020
    Lex
    Commerzbank/Manfred Knof: Hello Mr Crowbar Premium

    Things cannot get much worse for the German lender, yet there is hope for shareholders

  • Tuesday, 8 September, 2020
    #fintechFT
    Pandemic speeds up push to digital as bank branches close Premium

    Banks are overhauling their online offerings and closing bricks-and-mortar branches

  • Promoted Content
  • Wednesday, 12 August, 2020
    FT SeriesSomeone is wrong on the internet
    ‘Commerzbank has confirmed its top position in German equity research, sales and corporate access’

    Presented without comment.

  • Tuesday, 11 August, 2020
    Inside BusinessPatrick Jenkins
    Stop laughing at European banks and start the mergers

    After dismal quarters from Commerzbank, Société Générale and UniCredit, it is time for smart deals

  • Wednesday, 5 August, 2020
    LexEuropean banks
    Commerzbank: a dogged survivor Premium

    Lender stuck in purgatory of being too cheap to sell and too problematic to acquire

  • Wednesday, 5 August, 2020
    Commerzbank takes greater loan loss from Wirecard than Covid-19 debt

    Write-off of €175m in loans to collapsed German fintech greater than provisions for pandemic in second quarter

  • Monday, 3 August, 2020
    Commerzbank defies Cerberus in chairman appointment

    Supervisory board elects Hans-Jörg Vetter despite opposition from second-largest shareholder

  • Friday, 3 July, 2020
    Commerzbank chairman and chief to quit in Cerberus row

    Stefan Schmittmann and Martin Zielke tender resignation after criticism from second-biggest shareholder

  • Friday, 26 June, 2020
    FT InvestigationsInside Wirecard
    Markus Braun, Wirecard chief goes from billionaire to bail

    Arrest on Monday came days before German payments processor’s collapse on Thursday

  • Wednesday, 17 June, 2020
    Money laundering
    Commerzbank fined £38m for London money laundering failures

    Second-largest levy imposed by City regulator for failings to combat potentially illegal transactions

  • Wednesday, 10 June, 2020
    Cerberus calls for shake-up at Commerzbank to stop ‘downward spiral’

    Private equity firm demands two seats on supervisory board and criticises management’s ‘negligence’

  • Friday, 3 April, 2020
    Berlin clamps down on Commerzbank with supervisory board reshuffle 

    Move reflects German government’s frustration with lacklustre performance at struggling lender

  • Friday, 28 February, 2020
    Capital Group builds 4.8% stake in Commerzbank

    Move follows hot on heels of Deutsche Bank investment and is seen as a vote of confidence in ailing sector’s recovery

  • Thursday, 13 February, 2020
    Commerzbank vows to look ‘everywhere’ for new cost cuts

    German lender’s incoming finance chief says bank wants to make additional savings

  • Tuesday, 11 February, 2020
    Commerzbank told to speed up restructuring by ECB 

    German lender urged to consider ‘plan B’ in unusually blunt appraisal 

  • Friday, 24 January, 2020
    Fund bags €21m premium from Commerzbank for Comdirect stake

    Petrus Advisers agrees to drop lawsuit against online lender

  • Friday, 3 January, 2020
    Commerzbank raises stake in online arm after deal with activist

    German lender aims to cut costs as it launches full takeover of internet subsidiary

  • Friday, 27 December, 2019
    Investment Banking
    Deutsche Bank knuckles down to close its credibility gap

    Despite shares near record lows, the effects of Sewing’s turnround efforts are starting to show

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