‘Deutsche Bank’s Asia cuts largely completed’

Bloomberg

Deutsche Bank AG has almost finished restructuring its Asian investment-banking business and plans to add bankers in the coming months, said regional head James McMurdo.
“Yes we did trim, but we trimmed where we thought we were less competitive, or where we thought the opportunity was not that significant and that has largely been completed,” McMurdo, who leads corporate and investment banking for Asia Pacific, said. “Our core banking team has stayed together, and we expect to be adding to it in the immediate future.”
His comments follow that of Lok Yim, head of the Asia-Pacific wealth business, who said the German lender is still recruiting for this business in the region. CEO Christian Sewing has pledged to keep Deutsche Bank “strong” in Asia even as he prepared to overhaul operations worldwide.
McMurdo reiterated the lender is focused on Asia, servicing clients in local markets as well as global capital markets and cross-border deals.
This year, Deutsche Bank was a joint global coordinator for Xiaomi Corp.’s
$5.4 billion initial public offering priced in June. It was a global coordinator for Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s $5 billion bond sale in January, and advised Ant Financial on its $14 billion equity fundraising in June.