Deutsche Bank slashes 6,400 jobs as profits climb 87%

Record performance in debt sales and trading

Thursday 3 February 2005 at 16:00

Deutsche Bank is to cut 6,400 jobs across the group and has ditched global acquisitions to improve return on equity. The details accompanied news that net profits rose 87% to €2.5bn ($3.25bn) for the year to the end of December.

Financial News reported last November that bank insiders feared total job losses would hit 6,000.