Bloomberg After multiple turnaround plans and promises to restore growth, Deutsche Bank AG investors are no longer buying the talk. The German lender — already the worst-performing major bank stock in Europe this year — hovered near a record low on Wednesday after Chief Executive Officer Christian Sewing conceded that cuts to the investment bank are having a deeper impact ...

Bloomberg Barclays Plc’s Jes Staley has a stronger case to fend off the British lender’s activist shareholder as he delivers on a promise to grow its securities trading business. The unit saw fixed income, currency and commodities income substantially outperform US peers in the third quarter, rising almost 10 percent. Equity trading revenue surged by more than a third, the ...

Bloomberg The European Central Bank is starting to consider whether the financial crisis changed forever the way it controls interest rates. A decade of pumping cash into the financial system put so much downward pressure on market rates that all policy makers can do is set a floor — the minus 0.4 percent they impose for holding banks’ deposits overnight. ...