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Deutsche Bank CEO gets no relief as his biggest hire exits

  Bloomberg John Cryan’s plan to revamp Deutsche Bank AG risks unraveling as the departure of the chief executive officer’s most senior hire presents one more false start to a strategy he laid out last year. Quintin Price, hired in October to oversee growth in the bank’s asset-management business, is leaving the bank after going on medical leave in mid-April, ...

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Citigroup sale of Brazil unit to face tougher scrutiny

  Bloomberg Citigroup Inc’s sale of its Brazilian unit should face tougher scrutiny from the nation’s antitrust office because the local banking industry is already highly concentrated, one of the agency’s regulators said. Any banking mergers should immediately be deemed ‘complex,’ Cristiane Alkmin Junqueira Schmidt, a member of the agency, said. “I am really uncomfortable approving any transaction in the ...

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European banks to raise billions in capital

  Bloomberg Changes to the capital treatment of sovereign bonds discussed in Brussels and Basel may force European banks to raise as much as 171 billion euros (US$195 billion) in new capital or sell 492 billion euros of the securities, according to research published. European banks own about 2.3 trillion euros of sovereign debt, of which about 1.5 trillion euros, ...

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