German banks to repay state aid
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Seven German banks - including WestLB - are to hand back state aid worth more than 3bn euros that the EU says broke competition laws.
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FRANKFURT: Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau (KfW), the state owned bank that the German government uses as a vehicle for privatisation, is selling via the open market a stake of around seven percent in telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom.
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The initial aid pledges were generous, but governments will have to follow up on their word
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KarstadtQuelle, the troubled German department store operator, said its creditor banks had agreed to meet its liquidity needs until December 31, but had not yet agreed to its request for a three-year-loan of 1.75 billion euros (2.2 billion dollars).
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Frankfurt (IANS) Moved by images they have seen on television during the past week, Germans have responded in unprecedented measure to calls by politicians and churches to donate for tsunami victims across ...
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German banks, looking to put bad  investments behind them, are hanging 'For Sale' signs on  billions of euros in distressed loans in a move that's  attracting major U.S. vulture funds.
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German state politicians and banking officials hammered out a late-night deal to secure the rescue of troubled state-backed lender SachsenLB, they said on Thursday.
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The Bank of England agrees to give emergency financial support to mortgage lenders Northern Rock.
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Deutsche Bank, Germany's biggest bank, is to organise the financing of Deutsche Boerse's bid for the London Stock Exchange.
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Stricken German state lender SachsenLB is expected to be sold this weekend to another German state bank, Horst Metz, the finance minister of Saxony, said on Saturday.
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First, hard-pressed Wall Street banks turned to rich foreign governments for help. Now, they are seeking aid from the likes of New Jersey and big mutual funds.
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HypoVereinsbank, Germany's second biggest bank, said it had agreed to buy a portfolio of loans to mid-size corporate customers from ING BHF-Bank, the German arm of Dutch financial services group ING.
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The German government will take on an extra 14 billion euros (&#36;17.23 billion) in debt this year because the country's economic upturn so far has failed to boost tax revenue, taking new borrowing to a record level, the finance minister said Wednesday.
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Germany increases its aid pledge for tsunami victims to $674m - the largest international donation so far.
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Banks will be now able to borrow additional funds from the Bank of England in a move aimed at reducing the "credit squeeze".
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The German government is nearing a deal for German banks to buy a stake in EADS as DaimlerChrysler reduces its holding in the company.
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Germany's Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg will take over SachsenLB, a smaller public-sector bank that has been buffeted by its exposure to the U.S. subprime credit crisis, a German state governor said Sunday.