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 ...

"We won't block it," German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told an economics conference in Basel, Switzerland. "But we will push that we get sufficient time to translate the rules and that the ...

“The economic recovery won't be impacted by these measures,” Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told reporters. “Banks now have planning security with this decision.” He added that the regulators ...

Germany's cabinet has agreed to push ahead quickly with the introduction of stricter capital requirements for banks under international… Germany's cabinet has agreed to push ahead quickly with the ...

BERLIN/FRANKFURT, July 27 (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 ...

BERLIN -- Germany lifted its objections to the Basel II bank accord in early July, welcoming a compromise on lending to small businesses that would be discussed by global banking regulators at a ...