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The bank has avoided Deutsche-style cannibalism: fewer than 10% of Comdirect's new customers are banking clients of Commerzbank.
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In 2009, the three entities named as Plaintiffs had merged with the result that the Dresdner Kleinwort component is now referenced as an investment banking brand of Commerzbank AG.
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Commerzbank's investment-banking arm has lost money this year.
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Commerzbank is making money in investment banking, he says, even while losing it in some traditional activities.
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The investment-banking arms of Dresdner and Commerzbank, being smaller, suffered more when the good times ended and are now being scaled back to focus on Europe.
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The logic of a Commerzbank and Dresdner deal would be to build up their retail banking business.
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Deutsche Bank lost 5.3% and Commerzbank dropped 6.2% in Frankfurt, while Lloyds Banking Group fell 4.3% and Barclays slipped 3.6% in London.
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Dresdner's cost base is high, while Commerzbank's announcement on Thursday that its retail and commercial banking operating profit was poised for double-digit growth this year, shows that it's doing just fine as is, according to Becker.
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Dresdner might also try to woo the fiercely independent Commerzbank, which might make a more comfortable partner than Deutsche, but offers less in wholesale and investment banking.
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