After a rough year, DB is looking to make a comeback. From failing U.S. stress tests, and their share price dropping by 50%, the CEO John Cryan used the word "challenge" 64 times in the annual report.
The article found here outlines some issues that the author believes DB is facing.
1) Leakage of discussions with U.S. Justice Department over mortgage settlement
2) “Conditions”
3) Regulation and technology
4) Implementation of Strategy 2020
5) Implementation of the bank’s corporate culture within its organizational structures
6) Topics that will shape the future and “prompt handling of numerous, critical special issues from the past”
7) The market environment in 2016
8) The macroeconomic environment in the eurozone
9) Low interest rates
10) A volatile geopolitical backdrop and its implications for global trade
11) “Adverse speculation” about Deutsche Bank’s health
Equities
12) The risk management environment in equity derivatives
13) Persistent structural factors such as oversupply and “redundancy of certain types of ships”
14) Private Wealth and Commercial Clients Corporate Division’s business environment
15) Generating sustainable returns
16) The economic outlook in the eurozone
17) Regional independence efforts in the European Union
18) Reduction in global trade volumes
19) Strategic rationalization of our client and country perimeter
20) A slow-down in client activity
21) Fee compression
22) Competition
What other issues do you believe DB is facing? Do you believe they can make a comeback?
