Deutsche Bank announces sweeping restructuring

AFP, BERLIN: Scandal-plagued Deutsche Bank, Germany’s biggest lender, Sunday announced a major business and management shake-up that would “fundamentally change” its leadership structure.
The announcement came after Deutsche Bank this month braced employees for bonus cuts, announced its biggest quarterly loss in about a decade and warned that even dividends could be scrapped.
The bank has been undergoing a massive shake-up after its co-chief executives Anshu Jain and Juergen Fitschen resigned in June over a tangle of scandals and missed profit targets, replaced by new co-CEO John Cryan.
The investment and retail bank is mired in around 6,000 different litigation cases and was fined in May a record $2.5 billion (2.2 billion euros) for its involvement in rigging interest rates. It has also faced probes by Swiss authorities for suspected price fixing on the precious metals market, and US investigators have looked at its Moscow branch on suspicion of possible involvement in money-laundering.
The Supervisory Board on Sunday resolved at an extraordinary meeting in Frankfurt to restructure executive committees and senior management. The guiding principle was “to reduce complexity of the bank’s management structure, enabling it to better meet client demands and requirements of supervisory authorities”, the bank said in a statement.
“Deutsche Bank rarely underwent such a fundamental reorganisation in its history,” said Paul Achleitner, chairman of the Supervisory Board. “This also requires tough decisions.” Cryan said that “we want to create a better controlled, lower cost, and more focused bank that delivers long-term value to shareholders and great experiences to clients”.
“The new structure and management team are essential to getting this done. I am delighted to welcome six new members to the Management Board to form the team that together will build a better Deutsche Bank.”

 

Deutsche Bank announces sweeping restructuring

AFP, BERLIN: Scandal-plagued Deutsche Bank, Germanys biggest lender, Sunday announced a major business and management shake-up that would fundamentally change its leadership structure. The announcement came after Deutsche Bank this month braced employees for bonus cuts, announced its biggest quarterly loss in about a decade and warned that even dividends could be scrapped. The bank has been undergoing a massive shake-up after its co-chief executives Anshu Jain and Juergen Fitschen resigned in June over a tangle of scandals and missed profit targets, replaced by new co-CEO John Cryan. The investment and retail bank is mired in around 6,000 different litigation cases and was fined in May a record $2.5 billion (2.2 billion euros) for its involvement in rigging interest rates. It has also faced probes by Swiss authorities for suspected price fixing on the precious metals market, and US investigators have looked at its Moscow branch on suspicion of possible involvement in money-laundering. The Supervisory Board on Sunday resolved at an extraordinary meeting in Frankfurt to restructure executive committees and senior management. The guiding principle was to reduce complexity of the banks management structure, enabling it to better meet client demands and requirements of supervisory authorities, the bank said in a statement. Deutsche Bank rarely underwent such a fundamental reorganisation in its history, said Paul Achleitner, chairman of the Supervisory Board. This also requires tough decisions. Cryan said that we want to create a better controlled, lower cost, and more focused bank that delivers long-term value to shareholders and great experiences to clients. The new structure and management team are essential to getting this done. I am delighted to welcome six new members to the Management Board to form the team that together will build a better Deutsche Bank.