Deutsche Bank to cut 35000 jobs after $6.6 billion loss
FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2014 file picture the Deutsche Bank headquarters are photographed in Frankfurt, Germany. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)Deutsche Bank says it is shedding 35,000 jobs through redundancies and the sale of businesses as new CEO John Cryan seeks to make Germany\’s biggest lender more manageable and profitable.
The bank will slash 9,000 full-time jobs, 6,000 contractor positions and sell operations with 20,000 more workers. It will also close local operations in 10 smaller countries.
Thursday\’s announcement came as the bank reported a net loss of 6 billion euros ($6.6 billion) for the third quarter. The bank took a 5.8 billion euro hit from writing down the value of its investment bank and the Postbank retail bank.
The bank will not pay a dividend this year and next year to retain capital and strengthen its finances against possible financial turbulence.
Cryan said at a news conference that the bank faced "hard decisions" as it restructures.
"We must reduce Deutsche Bank\’s complexity," he said.
Of the 9,000 internal job cuts, about 4,000 will take place in Germany. Most of the cuts to be made through business sales will come by divesting Postbank.
Deutsche Bank has struggled to reduce costs and make its administration more transparent and ethical as it deals with uneven profits and investigations into rigging financial benchmarks. Former co-CEO Anshu Jain resigned in June. The other co-CEO, Juergen Fitschen is leaving in May.
Cryan warned that "there will be consequences on compensation" when he was asked about the impact on executive bonuses but said he could not yet quantify them.
He said it would be "unacceptable not to share some of the costs that we have suffered" as a "consequence of poor historic behavior." The bank has set aside billions to pay for fines and legal settlements in a several cases, including the rigging by a number of banks of the key interest rate benchmark known as the London Interbank Offered Rate, or Libor. The bank paid $2.5 billion to regulators in Britain and the United States to settle the Libor case.
Deutsche Bank said it would close its onshore operations in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Malta and New Zealand. Some branches in Germany would close as well, Cryan said.
SOURCE: AP
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