Deutsche Bank To Slash Jobs Across Equity, Fixed Income Trading
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Feb 3, 2017
Having seemingly survived their existential crisis last year, it appears the world’s most systemically dangerous bank remains under pressure. Just a day after missing analysts’ earnings expectations, Deutsche Bank is set to announce major job cuts across its trading businesses.
As Bloomberg reports, the bank will cut as much as 17 percent of staff in its equities unit and reduce fixed-income headcount by as much as 6 percent, with notices to be served to employees soon, the person said.
Chief Executive Officer John Cryan is cutting 9,000 jobs across the company to raise profitability and capital levels eroded by misconduct costs. Deutsche Bank’s market share in fourth-quarter trading fell to the lowest since the financial crisis as Cryan cut assets and clients concerned about the company’s finances pulled back.
Debt-trading revenue rose 11 percent to 1.38 billion euros ($1.48 billion), falling short of the 1.68 billion-euro average estimate of 10 analysts in a Bloomberg News survey. Equity trading revenue, which analysts had expected to be flat, fell 23 percent to 428 million euros.
The equities business is still “flattish to slightly down” in January compared with a year earlier, though the firm’s debt-trading business saw a 40 percent increase in the month, Deutsche Bank Chief Financial OfficerMarcus Schenck said Thursday on a call with analysts.
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