Deutsche Bank AG (DBK) is interested in acquiring 70 percent of Komercijalna Banka AD (KMBN), Serbia’s second- biggest bank by assets, Blic newspaper reported, citing a person it didn’t identify.

The German bank would acquire the stake from the government, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a group of small shareholders, after a planned capital increase in the coming months, according to the report.

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