Co-CEOs of Deutsche Bank resign as lender struggles
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ANSHU Jain and Juergen Fitschen will step down early as co-CEOs of Deutsche Bank, which has struggled with legal issues and disappointing profits.
They will be replaced by John Cryan, a British member of the company’s supervisory board, the bank said yesterday.
Jain and Fitschen became joint chief executives of Germany’s biggest bank in 2012, succeeding Josef Ackermann, and had contracts running through March 2017.
Deutsche Bank AG said that Jain, 52, and Fitschen, 66, had decided “to step down early from their roles” but gave no reason for their decision.
It said Jain will step down on June 30 but has been asked to remain with the company as a consultant until January. The bank’s supervisory board asked Fitschen to stay in his job until the next annual general meeting in May 2016 “to ensure a smooth transition.”
Cryan, 54, will become co-CEO in July and take sole control when Fitschen leaves. He has sat on Deutsche Bank’s supervisory board, the German equivalent of a board of directors, since 2013.
Cryan was president for Europe at Singaporean investment company Temasek from 2012 until last year. He was previously chief financial officer of Swiss bank UBS AG.
Jain and Fitschen have sought to move the bank past lawsuits and legal issues that in some cases date back years and stressed the need for it to change its culture. Still, those issues have continued to cast the bank in an unflattering light.
In April, the bank agreed to pay US$2.5 billion to authorities in the United States and Britain to settle allegations bank traders rigged important market interest-rate benchmarks used to determine rates on a variety of debt.
Unrelatedly, Fitschen and two predecessors went on trial that month on charges of attempted fraud for allegedly colluding to deceive judges in a long-running legal battle with a now-deceased media mogul, Leo Kirch. Fitschen and the other defendants have denied any wrongdoing.
Deutsche Bank also recently announced a reorganization.
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