John Cryan recasts Deutsche’s stubbornly high costs as investments

Deutsche’s CEO is telling the world just how much the bank still needs to do to improve, but struggles to make investors see the cost of fixing things as investing for the future.

If Jamie Dimon is at one end of a spectrum for bombastic bank CEOs, Deutsche Bank’s John Cryan is at the other, beyond even such understated figures as UniCredit’s Jean Pierre Mustier.

Cryan was on characteristic form on Friday as he presented his bank’s annual results – a loss of €500 million, compared with JPMorgan’s $24.4 million net profit – with his typical bedside manner, a smooth but unvarnished description of the condition of his patient, the variously ailing Deutsche Bank.

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