As we put it a few days ago while mocking Saudi Arabia’s attitude toward “collateral damage” from its bombing runs in Yemen, “you can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.” Well, over at Deutsche Bank, John Cryan has been busy crushing whole cartons worth. 

From sweeping job cuts, to reorganizations, to eliminating the dividend, Cryan has been a veritable wrecking ball since taking the helm from co-CEOs Anshu Jain (who is gone) and Jürgen Fitschen (who is leaving). 

Just yesterday, Europe’s largest bank announced that the dividend would be scrapped as part of “Strategy 2020.” Here are some other key points from Cryan’s “plan”:

  • CET 1 ratio: at least 12.5% from the end of 2018 
  • Leverage ratio: at least 4.5% at the end of 2018 and at least 5.0% at the end of 2020 
  • Return on Tangible Equity (RoTE): greater than 10% by 2018 
  • Adjusted Costs (total noninterest expenses excluding restructuring and severance, litigation, impairment of goodwill and intangibles and policyholder benefits and claims) of less than EUR 22.0 billion by 2018 
  • Cost/income ratio (CIR) of approximately 70% in 2018 and of approximately 65% in 2020 
  • Risk Weighted Assets (RWA) (excluding regulatory inflation following regulatory changes expected to be at least EUR 100 billion by 2019/2020) of approximately EUR 320 billion at the end of 2018 and of approximately EUR 310 billion at the end of 2020. 

    • Well, the hits just kept coming on Thursday as Deutsche Bank made good on a promise to write down billions in assets in its investment bank and retail- and private-banking operations. The Q3 loss: €6 billion.

     That’s a record, and Cryan understandably described it as “highly disappointing.” The pain was largely attributable to “impairments of goodwill and other intangibles,” or, put differently, “marking things to reality.’” As a reminder, here’s what DB said earlier this month:

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