Berlin - Deutsche Bank announced Monday that it would issue new shares to raise capital for the acquisition of a 29.75-per-cent stake in Deutsche Postbank.
The bank said it expected to raise around 2 billion euros (2.9 billion dollars) from the issue of up to 40 million new registered shares.
Deutsche Bank announced on September 12 that it had agreed to pay 2.8 billion euros to become the biggest single stakeholder in Postbank, a subsidiary of Deutsche Post.
The rights issue would maintain the strong equity capitalization, following the acquisition, the bank said in a statement.