FRANKFURT, July 30 -- The bank that European regulators were quietly stress-testing for collapse a decade ago reported its best-ever second-quarter profit on Tuesday, a result that says as much about where European capital markets stand after a prolonged freeze as it does about the seven years Deutsche Bank AG has spent remaking itself into a firm capable of capturing a recovery.

Post-tax profit for the April-to-June period rose 10 percent to 1.9 billion euros, the bank reported. Total net revenues climbed 9 percent to 8.5 billion euros. For the first half of 2026, Deutsche Bank earned 4.1 billion euros after tax on revenues of 17.2 billion euros, putting it on course for its full-year target of roughly 33 billion euros in total revenue....