DZ strives to push home advantage after exploiting banking crisis

Throughout the crisis, few institutions have been as aggressive as German co-operative DZ Bank in building out their capital markets franchises. As others have been laid low by toxic assets or hamstrung by government interventions, the well-funded, fully independent and increasingly confident DZ has sought to kick on and take market share in the public sector, corporate and financial institution sectors across a wide spectrum of products and diverse geographies.