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Deutsche Bank’s Sewing to Cut Management Roles as Costs Rise

  • Investments, compensation costs drive up expenses in quarter
  • CEO Sewing vows to ‘operate the bank with a lower headcount.’
A customer enters a branch of Deutsche Bank AG in Wolfsburg.Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg
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Deutsche Bank AG said it plans to reduce management roles and cut headcount over coming years, after higher-than-expected costs marred its results in the final months of last year.

Expenses rose 14% from a year ago, overshadowing a better-than-expected performance in the investment bank, where fixed-income traders record their best fourth quarter on record.