 "Deutsche Bank")
Deutsche Bank paid bonuses worth 2.3 billion euros ($2.83 billion) for 2017, four times higher than the previous year even as the German lender warned on costs for 2018 and reported a bigger 2017 loss than previously disclosed.
Germany's flagship lender said on Friday top managers would forego payouts for 2017 after the bank said it lost 735 million euros, the third annual loss in a row and more than the 497 million euros it had initially disclosed in February.
The bank, which distributed 546 million euros in bonuses in 2016, also said its cost cutting plans were hitting roadblocks, partly because of a delay in disposals.
In addition, the lender said it expected higher costs related to Britain's exit from the European Union and a postponement in savings from the merger of its in-house retail bank with Postbank.
"Those savings are now expected to be realised in 2019," the bank said, adding adjusted costs in 2018 were now expected to be 23 billion euros, up from its original forecast for 22 billion.
Also Read
Chief Executive John Cryan defended the rise in bonus payments as an effort to retain staff.
"If we want to live up to our claim of being the leading European bank with a global network, we have to invest in our employees so that we can continue to provide the best solutions for our clients," he said in a letter to shareholders.
The bank was cautiously optimistic for this year, saying: "For 2018, we expect revenues to be higher than in 2017."
(Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
