At once, it wants to be nobody. Not even Jörg Kukies, the state Secretary of the Federal Finance Minister, Olaf Scholz. Hardly Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank have finally confirmed, officially, that they negotiate with each other about a possible merger, Kukies asked last Monday at a conference in Frankfurt, and he says only: “We take the decision of the Board members to note. We stand with both sides in contact.”
