Christian Sewing
Chief Executive Officer
2018 – Present
8 years (current)
Key Decisions & Impact
Taking the executive helm as Chief Executive Officer in 2018 during a turbulent, precarious period for the financial institution, Christian Sewing made the critical, historically significant strategic decision to overhaul and restructure the entire global bank. In 2019, he boldly announced a radical, multi-year restructuring plan that deliberately and exited several unprofitable, excessively risky global equities trading businesses, severely cutting thousands of jobs to refocus the bank entirely on its stable, profitable core European corporate banking roots.
Legacy
Sewing is universally credited by skeptical Wall Street analysts and demanding global investors with executing one of the most impressive, complex corporate banking turnarounds in modern European financial history. His disciplined, relentless focus on strict cost control, risk reduction, and stable corporate revenue growth stabilized the troubled institution, finally returning Deutsche Bank to sustained, robust global profitability and significantly restoring badly damaged investor confidence after years of public financial scandals and crushing multi-billion dollar regulatory fines.