Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG unveiled a radical overhaul that will see the lender exit its equities business, post a $3.1 billion second-quarter loss and cut the workforce by a fifth to reverse a slide in profitability. Chief Executive Officer Christian Sewing will shelve the dividend this year and then take restructuring charges of 7.4 billion euros through 2022 to pay ...

Bloomberg One of Japan’s biggest regional banks is resuming an expansion overseas, 20 years after the country’s financial crisis forced it to retreat. Concordia Financial Group Ltd plans to expand in Asia to offer cash management services to its Japanese corporate clients and infrastructure loans to local entities, president Kenichi Kawamura said. It aims to hire specialists and double overseas ...

Bloomberg Back-to-back interest-rate cuts — and the possibility of more to come — have Credit Suisse AG feeling gloomy about Australia’s banking sector. With interest rates at a record low of 1 percent, banks are reaching the limit on how much they can reduce rates on deposits, which they rely on to fund their loan books. Australia & New Zealand ...