Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Germany will step up efforts to deal with its Landesbanken sector, the government said on Wednesday, after a ...

German chancellor Gerhard Schröder told a news conference in Berlin that Germany’s aim of preventing the Basel II bank capital adequacy Accord leading to more expensive loans for its small and ...

The consensus among bankers and bank regulators outside Germany is that a solution to the problem will be found without the drama of a veto. But it’s far from an absolute certainty. The German threat ...

GERMANY’S TOP 10 banks will have to raise as much as €105 billion of fresh capital under a global regulatory overhaul, the country’s banking industry has warned, in a last-ditch effort to change tough ...

FRANKFURT—Germany outlined its objections to the revised Basel banking rules proposals announced Monday, but its concerns didn't deter investors who drove bank stocks sharply higher across Europe.

BERLIN/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany will not agree to global supervisors' proposals to beef up banking capital and liquidity until they take into account the needs of its public banking sector, ...