to balance the market opec and non opec producers a great last month to boost output after reducing production last year to ease a global glut. societe generale is buying the equity markets and commodities business of germany s. acquisition still needs regulatory approval and would enable the french institution to expand its operations in europe s largest economy the news comes after speculation germany s biggest the most trouble linda dodge a bank had been considering a merger with comments. let s talk about this with the red bulls in our financial correspondent in frankfurt conrad is this becoming a trend we have seen it with deutsche bank now comments dropping riskier parts of its business yes fan you know after the financial crisis the regulators introduced stricter rules stricter regulations stricter capital