Tuesday, 9 July 2019

Christian Sewing Presses "Restart" for Deutsche Bank, Casting off Equities, Capital Crunching Fixed Income and Shoving 7.4bn RWA into "Capital Release" Unit

Deutsche CEO Christian Sewing has stated "We are doing what is necessary to unleash our true potential...We are building on our strengths. This is a restart for Deutsche Bank".

Sewing replaced outgoing German-speaking British Chief Executive John Cryan on 8 April 2018. One year into the CEO role Sewing has unleashed a radical restructure of the Deutsche Bank.

New Board members effective 1 August 2019 will be ex-McKinsey consultant Christiana Riley, Bernd Leukert who is a member of the Supervisory Board of Bertelsmann SE and held various executive roles at SAP and Stefan Simon, a lawyer, bringing experience in corporate law, corporate governance and compensation oversight (he is also an honorary professor at the University of Cologne).

A major part of the restructuring will be exiting the Equities Sales and Trading business and reducing capital consumed by the other businesses especially Rates. A preliminary agreement has been struck with BNP Paribas to provide continuity of service for electronic equities clients with a view to moving technology and staff across in due time. Deutsche's electronic equities and prime brokerage is mainly US-based. Several hedge funds have pulled out of Deutsche's prime business following a series of fines.

As part of the "restart", 74 billion euros of risk-weighted assets will be moved into a Capital Release Unit (CRU) for wind-down. A new CET1 target ratio of 12.5% has been targeted along with a fully loaded leverage ratio of 5% from 2022. There will also be a reduction in headcount by 18,000 full time employees. 13 billion will be invested in technology in the next three years.


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