Fundamentally, this proposed merger isn’t about creating a robust and profitable bank. It is all about German politics. Germany would suffer considerable loss of face if its largest bank were forced into the ignominious European bank resolution procedure, with creditors bailed in and shareholders wiped. How the Italians would laugh…
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