Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG rose in Frankfurt trading after the German lender agreed to sell its U.K. insurance business for 935 million euros ($1.2 billion) and Chief Executive Officer John Cryan ruled out a capital increase. Responding to investor concerns that the bank may be forced to raise capital to meet mounting legal costs, Cryan told Germany’s Bild newspaper …

  AFP Germany’s second-largest lender Commerzbank could slash around a fifth of its staff in the coming years as part of a billion-euro restructuring programme, a German newspaper said. Chief executive Martin Zielke is to present his vision for the bank’s future up to 2020 — including some 9,000 job cuts — to fellow board members on Friday, according to …

  Bloomberg Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf will forgo $41 million in compensation, the bank’s board of directors announced, as punishment for a bogus accounts scandal that has rocked the company. The bank has already apologized and said it fired 5,300 employees tied to the illegal conduct, which saw employees boost sales figures by opening unauthorized deposit and credit accounts …