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The financial investor KKR is teaming up with the billionaire family Viessmann as a co-investor. This is remarkable in several respects.

In the race with other economic powers for supremacy in artificial intelligence, Germany is in danger of losing out. This would also weaken all other domestic industries and set the country back in the competition.

In order not to lose pace with the other major economic players, Germany must make a greater effort to develop its own AI infrastructure, ZEW expert Bertschek demands.

Savings banks are faced with the accusation that they are failing to fulfil their public mandate by offering low interest rates on savings. Wrongfully so!

Christiane Vorspel, who moved to LBBW in 2018, is returning to Commerzbank as Head of IT. Thanks to her sociable nature and her wealth of internal experience, the Supervisory Board trusts her to successfully drive forward digitalisation and the cloud strategy.

The IPOs of Douglas and Galderma are hoped to mark the start of a comeback for IPOs. If this is to succeed, however, it will require substantial discounts on the valuation of the competitors already listed.

Before the merger with Schaeffler, Sabine Nitzsche, CFO of automotive supplier Vitesco Technologies, explains how the two companies differ and why flat hierarchies are important.

The topic of ESG is not yet sufficiently defined for the activities of supervisory boards. Although the boards generally certify that they are highly competent in all sustainability tasks, the HKP Group's governance consultants give them poorer marks.

Commerzbank wants to turn up the heat in the Swiss corporate client business. The local head of Commerzbank, Marc Steinkat, sees the integration of Credit Suisse into UBS as a "huge opportunity" for the Frankfurt-based bank.

Monetary policy expert Volker Wieland believes that the current interest rate level in the eurozone is not particularly restrictive. Therefore, there is much to suggest that key interest rates will not be lowered before June.

The British financial platform Tide is coming to Germany. CEO Oliver Prill sees great growth potential there. It is the first step in the company's expansion into continental Europe. Tide already has a presence in India.

The Otto Group is preparing for a generational change. Company patriarch Michael Otto wants to hand over the management of the family business to his son Benjamin in two years' time. The new CEO in 2025 will be the current CFO Petra Scharner-Wolff.

In view of declining actual wages, travelling could soon become a luxury that fewer and fewer people can afford.

Electromobility has reached an impasse. This is forcing German car manufacturers and the EU to rethink.

Since 1979, the Hankammer family has been involved with SV Wehen Wiesbaden, which managed to return to the Bundesliga 2 last season.

There are many ingredients for a boom in the transatlantic deal market. Technological innovation is still one of the key drivers.

The stress on the commercial real estate market is putting banks under pressure – especially US banks, but also German specialist financiers such as Aareal Bank and Pfandbriefbank. Here is how differently German banks are exposed.

Deutsche Pfandbriefbank is currently facing fire from the capital market. The new CEO, Kay Wolf, is therefore primarily placing the message that the bank's situation is much better than the latest share price developments suggest.

On International Women's Day, attention was once again drawn worldwide to existing inequalities between men and women. In the economy, these are prevalent from the very beginning – namely already in the founding of innovative growth companies.

Up to 26 new high-rise buildings could be added to Frankfurt's skyline by 2040. A huge number, given the situation on the property market.

For the first time, Deutsche Börse has made internal arrangements for the succession of a CEO. Stephan Leithner is set to follow into the footsteps of Theodor Weimer. The former banker and private equity manager has an impressive M&A track record.

The banking industry and politicians are advocating a reform of securitisation rules in Europe. Commerzbank Deputy CEO Bettina Orlopp, Barclays Germany CEO Ingrid Hengster and State Secretary Jörg Kukies are confident that a political agreement is within reach.