It looks like Deutsche Bank needs to line up a new spouse. : They’re not rumours any more – albeit still anonymously, European regulators are coming out and saying it: they want someone to take over Deutsche Bank. The people at the ECB and BaFin are prepared to discuss specific merger scenarios. The German finance ministry has even asked the banking supervisory authority to “run the numbers” on a number of partners and scenarios, for all the world as if it was an M&A advisory shop.