1.   Thereafter the DTB received official support from the German banks which have re-routed Bund futures contract business through their own domestic exchange.

2.   Several German banks have in recent years set up capital market units in London to trade deutschmark bonds.

3.   In relation to US banks they had to hold non-interest bearing reserve balances related to the size of their deposits, as did German banks in the Federal Republic.

4.   Analysts also said German banks have bid less aggressively in government bond sales recently, ahead of an expected transformation in the way government bonds are auctioned next year.

5.   Analysts said the Deutsche Bank-Sakura agreement would give the German bank much better access to the Japanese corporate market than it had before.

6.   Analysts said they do not expect any major mergers among German banks this year.

7.   Analysts said the results, resting as heavily as they do on gains in trading income, reflect the same sluggish growth that plagues all the major German banks.

8.   Analysts also said they will lower their earnings estimates for German banks after the statement by Deutsche Bank, a bellwether for the industry.

9.   Analysts also said they will lower their earnings estimates for other German banks after the statement by Deutsche Bank, a bellwether for the industry.

10.   Analysts said that German regional banks are also likely to be under EU scrutiny, in particular as they continue to expand the range of their activities.