An ABM Amro, Citigroup, ING Barings or Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale would enjoy the confidence of customers.

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After years of investigation, the European Commission this year fined one such, Westdeutsche Landesbank, for receiving a state subsidy.

ECONOMIST: Snail-paced consolidation

The sin of which he stands accused is that, as premier for 20 years of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most populous state, he improperly used a private jet chartered by the Westdeutsche Landesbank, of which the state owns nearly half.

ECONOMIST: Germany