After successive summer heatwaves
Germany's public rail operator Deutsche Bahn is testing white-painted rails designed to reflect some rays and protect them from heat damage.
The train passenger association Pro Bahn has called for Wolfsburg to become a regular stop on trains to Berlin, after yet another driver of a high-speed ICE train missed the stop on Sunday.
Berlin rail startup Locomore has been placed into administration just months after it launched a challenge to state-owned monolith Deutsche Bahn, which dominates long-distance train travel in Germany.
Eurogroup chief Jeroen Dijsselbloem has said that US fines on European banks such as Deutsche Bank were eroding the stability of the European finance system.
US authorities are targeting Deutsche Bank for a record $14-billion fine marked the latest blow to Germany's biggest lender, which since the 2008 financial crisis has run a gauntlet of setbacks.
Criminals have successfully stolen tens of thousands of euros from dozens of people across Germany after finding a way around systems that text a code to confirm transactions to online banking users.
Train drivers' union GDL may announce more walkouts on Monday, but Lufthansa pilots have promised not to repeat their disruptive strikes of recent weeks during negotiations to end the industrial dispute.
Deutsche Post and motoring association ADAC will launch a new bus service on November 1st in a bid to challenge Deutsche Bahn’s dominance over long distance journeys. They unveiled their plans in Bonn on Wednesday.
An leak of millions of documents about rampant tax evasion by the rich includes hundreds of Germans, including late playboy and art collector Gunter Sachs. Deutsche Bank is also implicated as an "aggressive" enabler.
Shareholders controlling more than 80 percent of German stock market operator Deutsche Börse approved Thursday a merger with NYSE Euronext to create the world's biggest stock exchange.
NYSE Euronext shareholders approved Thursday a merger with Deutsche Börse to form the biggest stock exchange operator in the world valued at some $25 billion (€17.4 billion).
German stock exchange operator Deutsche Börse insisted Friday its mooted merger with the New York Stock Exchange was the better deal after a rival bid emerged from Nasdaq and ICE.
A certain number of German banks will apply for state aid in the coming days, including some who had said they would not need it, Finance Minister Peer SteinbrĂĽck told the <i>Financial Times Deutschland</i> on Thursday.
German Economy Minister Michael Glos on Monday called for investment bankers to follow the example of Deutsche Bank CEO Josef Ackermann by forgoing their bonuses this year in light of the global financial crisis.
Oskar Lafontaine, the head of the hard-line-socialist Left party, is backing the controversial call by the party's presidential candidate Peter Sodann to jail German bankers like Deutsche Bank CEO Josef Ackermann.
Deutsche Bank struck a deal on Friday to buy a stake in Germany's largest retail bank Postbank for €2.79 billion ($3.93 billion) in the country's latest major banking deal.
In another move towards the consolidation of Germany’s banking sector, Deutsche Bank has confirmed its is in advanced talks to take a stake in Postbank.
Deutsche Bank was the only big European bank to bid for Bear Stearns in last week's fire sale and it might get another shot as shareholders balk at the takeover by JP Morgan Chase.
