Officials studying way to make merger with Commerzbank easier

A Bloomberg report says high level discussions including finance minister Scholz and looking at concrete ways the government can assist in a potential merger.

The steps include new laws that might make a merger less costly.

Shares of Deutche Bank are up 5% today but the report says talks of a merger are still in the exploratory phase.

Shares of DB are down more than 50% this year.