The ultimate goal of this change in strategy, which includes reducing risks and accelerate the savings plan, is to end equity problems experienced by the entity.
The financial crisis led the governments to tighten regulations towards the banks and to comply with the new requirements, Deutsche Bank must reduce its share of debt and increase its own capital.
Moreover, the bank has been strongly affected in recent months by several scandals, the most serious of which - the legal procedings due to the manipulation of the Libor - conclusively ended last week in the USA with a record fine of 2,500 billion dollar.
Deutsche Bank announced that its profit in the first quarter of the year fell 50% year on year, to 544 million euros, due to their problems with the justice.