Commerzbank - The Government Goes Into Banking

For the first time since the Second World War, the German government is taking a stake in a major bank. The government will own more than a 25 percent share of Germany's second-largest bank and thus have a say over the way the institution is run. In the wake of the global financial crisis, Germany has now joined the ranks of other European countries like Britain and Belgium in partially nationalising a major bank. Christoph Kober provides an overview of financial institutions in crisis.

DW-World | January 13, 2009