All the headlines from our Germany Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 13 2018 // Heirs in Germany have the right to access the Facebook accounts of their deceased relatives, a court said in a landmark privacy ruling on Thursday, saying a social media account can be inherited in the same way as...
Jul 5 2018 // Assicurazioni Generali SpA agreed to sell almost 90 percent of its German Generali Leben unit to a company owned by Cinven Ltd. and Hannover Re in a deal that values the business at about 1 billion euros ($1.2 billion.)The...
Jun 28 2018 // Italy’s Generali is expected to start exclusive talks shortly over the potential sale of its 40 billion euro ($48 billion) German life insurance portfolio to private equity-backed Viridium, a person close to the...
Jun 22 2018 // Germany, land of the no-holds-barred Autobahn, is pushing the next level of transportation: flying cars.Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government signed a letter of intent with executives from Volkswagen’s Audi...
Jun 21 2018 // With ambitions to challenge insurance giants like Allianz SE, newcomer Deutsche Familienversicherung AG [DFV] needs 100 million euros ($116 million) in fresh funds to finance its expansion plan. An initial public offering...
Jun 18 2018 // German authorities arrested the head of Volkswagen’s luxury arm Audi on Monday, the most senior company official so far to be detained over the carmaker’s emissions test cheating scandal.Munich prosecutors, who...
Jun 15 2018 // Germany will allow interest groups to sue on behalf of consumers, taking a tentative step toward U.S.-style class-action lawsuits in a bid to make it easier to collect damages from big companies in the aftermath of...
Jun 12 2018 // A $94 billion financial behemoth is keeping the market on tenterhooks about its next move.Europe’s largest insurer, Allianz SE, is in the early stages of evaluating a variety of potential acquisition targets as...
May 29 2018 // U.S. Treasuries need to get a lot cheaper to attract some European investors.Even with yields at multi-year highs, Treasuries are paying less than their pricier German peers when European insurers account for steep hedging...
May 20 2018 // Global insurers are taking stock of how the U.S. withdrawal from an international agreement to deny Tehran nuclear weapons, and threatened sanctions against companies that do business with Iran, could affect them.Insurance...
May 17 2018 // A.M. Best has a stable outlook on the German non-life insurance sector as Germany’s robust economy continues to drive growth.According to the ratings agency, the country’s technical profitability is solid and...
May 15 2018 // If European powers are to succeed in holding together a nuclear deal with Iran that the U.S. abandoned a week ago, then one issue they’ll need to consider is the insurance of oil tankers hauling the Persian Gulf...
May 15 2018 // Cars that drive themselves are finding the clearest paths to showrooms in the U.K., Germany, South Korea and Singapore, where governments have enacted legislation allowing autonomous vehicles to be tested on public roads....
May 15 2018 // Germans will be able to use dashcam footage as evidence in some road accident cases following a federal supreme court ruling on Tuesday, even though it violates strict privacy rules.A German court sparked a debate in 2016...
Apr 20 2018 // German prosecutors may widen an investigation into auto supplier Robert Bosch over its suspected involvement in emissions test cheating to include dealings with Fiat, Ford, General Motors and Hyundai, according to the...
Mar 13 2018 // In the wait for self-driving technology, cell-phone toting tech bros may have to cede their spot in line to pizzas, Craigslist couches and the mounting ephemera of e-commerce.The future—at least in the near-term—will...
Mar 6 2018 // DARAG Group Ltd., a leading European legacy acquirer, it has acquired IKANO Försäkring AB, the Sweden-based insurance company.The transaction provides the owner of the Swedish insurer with legal and economic finality in...
Mar 2 2018 // Athene Holding Ltd. and Viridium Group GmbH submitted binding bids for Assicurazioni Generali SpA’s 40 billion-euro ($49 billion) German life insurance portfolio, according to people with knowledge of the...
Mar 2 2018 // Germany’s government was marshaling its defenses on Thursday against a powerful cyber attack that lawmakers said had breached the foreign ministry’s computer network and whose origins officials admitted were...
Feb 28 2018 // The initial insured price tag for Extratropical Cyclone Friederike, also known as David, is an estimated €1.5 billion (US$1.8 billion), according to PERILS, the independent Zurich-based organization that provides...