Hope you all are having a great weekend,
While Deutsche has been in the news and all over reddit in the last few years for all the wrong reasons, it seems like the potential merger with Commerzbank, Germany's second-largest listed bank, that has been speculated about for quite some time now has not been a topic on reddit yet. Given that the two banks represent the two largest balance sheets in Germany, what would you make of a merger of those two, creating a national champion within Germany and one of the largest banks in the EU? The two arguments I am constantly hearing are, very generally, lower overall overhead costs basis (pro merger) vs merger cost & no large enough overlap in business activities to make up for these costs by fewer overhead. Generally, what is your take on this potential merger and how would you play this stock-wise? Which shareholders would benefit if such a move would actually happen?
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Submitted March 09, 2019 at 01:43AM by TypXYZ https://ift.tt/2u1K59H
