
Katharina Slodczyk is an editor at manager magazin. Based in Frankfurt, she covers banks, stock exchanges, brokers, and fraud in the old and new financial world. Previously, she was, among other roles, a financial reporter and London correspondent for Handelsblatt.
She is steering Commerzbank through one of the most exciting phases of recent years: Bettina Orlopp has been fighting for a good year and a half to prevent Germany's second-largest private bank from being taken over by Italy's Unicredit. At the same time, she has to deliver in day-to-day business and thus keep the share price as high as possible. How do you gear a company toward independence, how do you cultivate trust, and why is performance ultimately the strongest argument?
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