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Deutsche Bank pushes for profit from cutting energy consumption

  Bloomberg For energy investors, saving energy has never been as profitable as producing it. That’s starting to change, with institutions from Deutsche Bank AG to Societe Generale SA making it bankable to squeeze more out of electricity and fossil fuels. Their efforts have the potential to channel more money into energy-saving beyond the $45 billion reaped in 2014, blunting ...

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Banks sued by investor over agency-bond rigging claims

  BLOOMBERG Bank of America Corp. and Deutsche Bank AG were among five banks sued over claims that traders conspired to manipulate trading agency bonds issued by government entities and institutions like the World Bank, harming investors who bought and sold the securities. The suit by Boston Retirement System, a pension fund representing city workers, follows inquiries by US and ...

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Millennials show French banks lagging on branch cuts

  Bloomberg Jean-Baptiste Esmenjaud, 26, hasn’t set foot in his bank in over five years. “La Banque Postale lets me do everything online, and I speak over the phone once a year with an adviser,” said the biology student, a decade-long customer of the state-backed bank whose 9,000-plus French branches gives it one of Europe’s biggest such networks. “I’ve been ...

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