By Reuters Staff
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Felix Hufeld will leave the helm of Germany’s financial watchdog BaFin after coming under pressure for failing to spot wrongdoing ahead of the collapse of the payments company Wirecard.
FILE PHOTO: Felix Hufeld, President of Germany s Federal Financial Supervisory Authority BaFin (Bundesanstalt fuer Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht) visits Thomson Reuters office in Frankfurt, Germany, September 22, 2016. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski/File Photo
“The Wirecard scandal has revealed that Germany’s financial supervision needs a reorganization,” the finance ministry said in a statement.
The acknowledgement of problems was a fresh indictment of Germany’s supervision of a company that began by processing payments for gambling and pornography before becoming a star of “fintech” - financial technology - and finally Germany’s biggest fraud case.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Commerzbank s new chief executive, Manfred Knof, wants to cut 10,000 jobs and close hundreds of branches as part of a strategy revamp announced just weeks after he took on the top job at Germany s second-biggest bank.
The bank s management hopes the overhaul plans revealed on Thursday will revive the fortunes of the partly state-owned group, which has struggled to boost profits amid executive reshuffles and strategy zig-zags. The has bank never fully recovered after a state bailout during the last financial crisis. We will thoroughly reduce complexity and cut costs. Our goals are very ambitious, Knof said in a statement.
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By Tom Sims and Patricia Uhlig
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Regulators are pressing Deutsche Bank CEO Christian Sewing to relinquish day-to-day oversight of its sprawling investment bank, two people with knowledge of the matter said.
European Central Bank officials have held conversations with Deutsche Bank managers, including Sewing, in which they said the CEO should delegate direct control of the division to another board member, according to the sources, who were involved in or briefed on the discussions.
It was unclear when regulators last voiced their concerns directly, but the two people said over the past week that the bank was well aware of their position, with one adding that contact with Deutsche was constant .
By Patricia Uhlig and Tom Sims FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Commerzbank s new chief executive, Manfred Knof, wants to cut 10,000 jobs and close hundreds of branches as part of a strategy revamp announced just weeks after he took on the top job at Germany s second-biggest bank. The bank s management hopes the overhaul plans revealed on Thursday will revive the fortunes of the partly state-owned group, which has struggled to boost profits amid executive reshuffles and strategy zig-zags. The has bank never fully recovered after a state bailout during the last financial crisis. We will thoroughly reduce complexity and cut costs. Our goals are very ambitious, Knof said in a statement.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany’s financial watchdog has reported one of its employees to state prosecutors on suspicion of insider trading linked to Wirecard, shortly before the payment firm’s spectacular collapse.
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BaFin’s admission is a fresh indictment of Germany’s supervision of a company that began by processing payments for gambling and pornography before becoming a star of ‘fintech’ - financial technology - and finally Germany’s biggest fraud case.
The European Union’s markets watchdog has criticised Germany for failing to avert the fraud, while lawmakers are scrutinising the role of politicians, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, who lobbied for Wirecard in China.