1.   Wall Street needs more minority branch managers, syndicate department heads, and board of directors members, he said.

2.   An Alitalia board of directors member, Giuseppe Consolo, said the alliance is to be worked out by November at the latest, likely sooner.

3.   Deutsche Bank Chairman Hilmar Kopper is to step down next May and is to be succeeded by board of directors member Rolf Breuer, the bank said Wednesday.

4.   The president and eight board of directors members of the Turkish Human Rights Foundation face up to six months in prison if convicted in the semi-military state security court.