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I do want to dig into that Deutsche Bank merger.

I think that this is fascinating from a lot of perspectives.

Well, let's talk about it. Let's talk about it because it's been on the cards for absolutely ages and finally I guess it's official now that they're actually in talks.

Do we just assume it's executed?

Well, I think that there probably are a whole bunch of

potential challenges here still. I mean, I think that the question is is what form is this going to take? Is this

merger? And I think Luigi Zingales actually has some views on this. He's a

finance professor at the University of Chicago at the Booth School of Business and he joins us here in

our Bloomberg Interactive Brooker Studios. Luigi, thank you so much for being

here. What do you think about this merger? So this is a merger of failed banks, banks that don't succeed in the marketplace by

themselves and they have to merge because they're very weak, even if in the past they have shown

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