Deutsche Bank announced today that effective January 1, 2014, Thomas Poppensieker (43) will join Deutsche Bank to lead the Bank's efforts to further strengthen its control framework across business divisions and infrastructure functions.

He will take over from Ronny Tan as Chief Country Officer for Singapore and in addition will also work across all the Bank's business divisions to develop the Bank's client activities in South East Asia...

Dr. Ansgar Tietmeyer (45) is to take over as Head of Deutsche Bank's Public Affairs department in Berlin on 1 February 2013. On behalf of the Management Board, he will cultivate Deutsche Bank's relationships with ministries, authorities, political parties and members of parliament as well as coordinate relations within the bank.

Deutsche Bank confirmed today that it has reached agreement with Kleinwort Benson Group, the wholly owned subsidiary of financial services group RHJ International, on the sale of BHF-BANK, one of Germany's leading private banks.

In spite of increasing volatility in foreign exchange markets, only around half of companies that were surveyed hedge foreign exchange risks in Renminbi transactions...