(Bloomberg) -- Commerzbank AG Chief Executive Officer Bettina Orlopp announced a new share buyback and vowed to keep increasing payouts as she seeks to insulate the lender against a potential takeover ...

Commerzbank is said to have turned down informal proposals Orlopp pledged she won’t ‘do stupid things’ to defend the bank In her quest to keep Commerzbank AG independent, Bettina Orlopp has concluded ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Commerzbank chief Bettina Orlopp shot down an invitation from Andrea Orcel to hold informal talks about a ...

Earlier on Friday, the Financial Times newspaper reported that Commerzbank CEO Bettina Orlopp had rejected an invitation from UniCredit CEO Andrea Orcel to hold informal talks about a potential ...

Though the couple had desperately hoped for a much larger gathering, tying the knot sooner rather than later took priority, resulting in their nuptials being a much more intimate church service to ...

Kirsty Coventry hopes to "challenge the status quo" at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) should she be elected as its first female president. The 41-year-old former swimmer would also ...

“We evaluate certain M&A options for ourselves, but that are really bolt-on acquisitions, smaller ones to make our value proposition better,” Orlopp told Bloomberg Television at the World ...

Commerzbank AG has its eyes on various potential smaller deals to create value for shareholders, but it won’t do anything “stupid” to fend off a potential takeover by UniCredit SpA, Chief Executive ...