JPMorgan’s $100 million settlement of a currency manipulation lawsuit has sparked a flood of interest from potential new claimants, and marks a new victory in their fight for compensation, according to a leading lawyer involved in negotiations.

Asoka Wöhrmann, global CIO with Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management, shares his macro and asset allocation views for the year ahead.

The results for the Trade Finance Survey indicate a resounding success for Deutsche Bank.

Larry Adams, CIO for Deutsche Bank's Wealth Management Americas, shares his views on how 2014 was full of surprises and how 2015 could be full of risks.

FX market veteran takes up new role developing digital technology and reducing business complexity across Deutsche Bank’s markets platform

Deutsche Bank’s explicit admission in its third-quarter results that higher regulatory costs are hitting the profitability of its global transaction banking business will come as blow to the bank and a warning to others.

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14% rise in responses pushes total to all-time high of 28,000.

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For those of you who were dozing on the beach this summer, with your smart-phones switched off, a leading Portuguese bank was restructured in August and no one, least of all the regulators, seems to have forewarned us of this impending disaster.

Pre-tax profits from Deutsche Bank’s global transaction banking business fell 29% in the second quarter compared with a year earlier, as the business – a core part of its growth strategy – was hit by a 'litigation-related charge'.

Despite recent troubles, Deutsche was the outstanding performer in the debt capital markets over the last year.

Deutsche Bank has created a new combined division within its global transaction banking business in an effort to strengthen the service it provides global financial institution, investor and issuer clients.

Deutsche Bank’s third annual survey of global prices was released in May, giving a guide to the cheapest and most expensive places for standard consumer goods. Here is some advice extracted from the data: purchase your Adidas sports shoes in South Africa; shop in India for Levi jeans and your VW Golf convertible; get your iPhone in Japan; rent a car in China; watch your movies in Malaysia; subscribe to the Economist in Indonesia; buy your Mac from Canada; get your smokes in the Philippines.

Deutsche Bank finally managed to sell its Las Vegas casino – The Cosmopolitan – a few days before announcing a €8 billion capital raising that it will use to double down on its bet that it can make a viable return from a full-service global fixed-income business.

Barclays cuts its investment bank in half; Deutsche raises equity to protect market share.

The Las Vegas casino that Deutsche Bank finally managed to sell just before announcing its most recent capital increase – The Cosmopolitan – uses the catchphrase “Just the right amount of wrong” to tempt customers.

Shades of Gwyneth and Chris: Simon Robey and Simon Warshaw consciously uncoupled from Simon Robertson.

Pre-tax income from Deutsche Bank’s global transaction banking (GTB) business grew 15% in the first quarter compared with a year earlier, despite being hit by “intense margin and competitive pressure”.

€3bln for DCM, €3bln for FICC; UniCredit, Commerzbank and Crédit Agricole to benefit as funding shifts to bonds

The financial landscape is changing and certain macro themes are beginning to emerge.

The markets didn’t quite ignore the rushed news of Deutsche Bank’s fourth-quarter 2013 €1.2 billion loss stemming from litigation charges, restructuring costs and weak performance in its fixed-income business. Sure, the shares fell 6.5%, but this came after a more than 20% rally from the middle of 2013. Investors might have contented themselves that, after stripping out all the accounting nonsense and the litigation one-offs, the underlying performance wasn’t too bad.

Competition and low rates eroding margins; Business key to broaden banking relationships

The third quarter performance of Deutsche Bank and Standard Chartered’s transaction banking divisions shows how stable revenues and profits can be from the business, but this resilience is being tested by pressure points, not least competition.

Deutsche Bank has become the latest global bank to enter the fast-growing market for prepaid corporate cards, which was estimated to be worth close to $80 billion in the US alone last year.

The path to success in investment banking these days is pretty much preordained: top university, first-class degree, ball-breaking spell as an intern, some sort of post-grad qualification and no time for any outside interests.

In late June, I attended the International Capital Market Association’s dinner at the Savoy Hotel in London to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Eurobond market. In 1963, the first fixed-rate Eurobond was launched by Autostrade. The issue was $15 million of 5.5% guaranteed bonds due 1972/78. Icma had gathered together an impressive group of market participants from all over the world. Issuers and bankers mingled and reminisced. Euromoney, which was founded in 1969 and has chronicled the development of and the milestones in the Eurobond market, was a sponsor of the dinner. As I scanned the guest list, I saw many familiar names: Cyrus Ardalan, Samir Assaf, Johannes Attems, Allegra Berman, Charlie Berman, Viscount Bridport, Waltraut Burghardt, Lachlan Burn, Maria Cannata, Christopher Carter, David Clark, Nicholas Clegg, Joe Cook, Frank Czichowski. And that brings me to only the fourth letter of the alphabet.

High capital ratio now a key part of strategy; new issue might help meet US demand.

After the February unveiling of an ambitious turnaround strategy, Barclays' CEO Antony Jenkins faces new risks to earnings, uncertainty over the direction of the bank's US investment banking arm – core to its global footprint - and market pressures to accelerate capital accumulation.