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Bayer is facing extensive job cuts. The Group structure, on the other hand, appears to be sacrosanct.

German companies are increasingly becoming digitally dependent, particularly on the United States and China. Bitkom calls for increased investments in "key technologies with leverage effect."

The future acknowledgment of cash as a payment method in Germany is not assured. Nevertheless, it is crucial for society to maintain analog payments in a digitized world.

Hauke Burkhardt calls for a closing of ranks between banking, capital, and funding markets. As the Head of Corporate Finance for Deutsche Bank, he extends a hand to debt funds and cautions against allowing the negative sentiment in Germany to become a reality.

Germany is failing in every possible way: inadequate market measures, excessive central planning and bureaucracy, escalating social costs, deteriorating infrastructure, rising energy prices, and a diminishing appeal for highly skilled individuals. Yet, Berlin remains committed to the misguided path.

The revival of M&A activities within the software sector is primarily led by financial investors. In doing so, they are reorganizing the industry – also in Germany.

According to risk manager Gerold Grasshoff, geopolitical conflicts are one of the biggest challenges facing the financial industry.

Cyberattacks are becoming the "god help us" for companies: For the first time, respondents to the Allianz Risk Barometer ranked these attacks as the undisputed number one biggest risk by a large margin.

If the climate money doesn't arrive until 2025, the acceptance of carbon pricing suffers. The alternative is an immediate reduction in sales or income tax to relieve households.

Artificial intelligence is finding its way into more and more law firms. There are still narrow limits to the use of the technology. But it has the potential to change entire pricing structures.

The Jordanian businessman Hasan Ismaik is a financial backer of the traditional club 1860 Munich. He is not popular there.

After the slump in biotech financing in 2022, funding for the German industry has picked up again in the past year. Confidence is growing among companies with regard to business development.

Stefanie Münz, the CFO of LBBW, sees a locational problem for Germany. With regard to the involvement in the real estate conglomerate Signa, she gives the all-clear for her own bank.

Economics and financial principles find little emphasis in school education in Germany. This needs to change.

The CEO of HUK-Coburg discusses the high losses of car insurers, the customer migration at the turn of the year, and the backlog of service.

While banks in France, Spain, and Italy experienced a significant number of closures years ago, the consolidation trend in Germany started later. Currently, the reduction of banks in Germany is more substantial than in the entire Eurozone.

For months, the credit industry and the federal government have been grappling with the proceeds from the German bank levy. The government now intends to retain the funds.

The future of German startups depends not only on their profitability but also on the startup scene taking a political stance.

For Pirmin Hotz, diversification is the key criterion for long-term stock market success. However, not every sector has a place in the Swiss asset manager's portfolios. The manager urgently warns against overestimating the abilities of various "gurus".

An increasing number of women are breaking into the upper echelons of the insurance sector. However, there are notable disparities in diversity between larger and smaller insurers.

Alexander Lorz was Hesse's Minister of Education and Cultural Affairs for two legislative periods. In future, he will be dealing less with teachers and more with bankers as he takes over as Minister of Finance.

Savings banks and ING-DiBa are holding the federal government accountable for the authentication process through the electronic identification (eID). According to the banking industry, the withdrawal of the federal government from the PIN reset service poses a threat to the project.