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Deutsche Bank to cut 10,000 jobs

GERMANY’S Deutsche Bank could cut up to 10,000 jobs as it looks to convince investors it is serious about returning to profitability, according to media reports yesterday.

Citing “people familiar with internal bank discussions,” the Wall Street Journal reported that around one in ten employees at Germany’s biggest lender could be headed for the exit.

A spokesman for Deutsche Bank declined to comment on the reports.

But a source familiar with the plans said the numbers reported by the WSJ were broadly accurate.

Deutsche executives will face investors at the bank’s annual general meeting today.

The gathering — often a stormy occasion in recent years as Deutsche has digested the toxic legacy of the financial crisis — comes weeks after chief executive John Cryan was ousted in favor of Deutsche lifer Christian Sewing in early April.

Cryan, seen as a safe pair of hands who could clean up the bank after the breakneck expansion of the pre-crisis years, was handed the reins in 2015.

But he reported three annual net losses in a row despite hacking back major financial and legal thickets.

Investors were unsatisfied, driving the share price to below half its 2015 level by early 2018 and prompting supervisory board chairman Paul Achleitner to look for a new top manager.

Sewing has vowed to refocus the bank on retail and corporate banking, with cuts to its share trading and other investment banking activities, especially in large markets outside Germany like the US and Asia.

Shares in Deutsche Bank slipped 0.8 percent to 10.87 euros (US$12.73) after the news broke, outperforming a DAX index of blue-chip German shares that fell 1.63 percent.




 

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