Deutsche Bank has joined a group of major financial institutions and Web3 innovators to produce an in-depth paper on how to achieve interoperability for tokenized assets across public and private blockchains and legacy systems.

Firms should aim to be “the best versions of themselves” in what promises to be another challenging year. In brief The start of the year is often a time for economic, market or technology forecasts — and for personal resolutions. We combined both elements in this countdown of the top 10 resolutions for WAM leaders to make in 2024. Faced with continuing market uncertainty and growing earnings pressure, resolving to "get in shape" has never been more important. 

Below, we summarise the problematic areas discussed during our January seminar focused on employee benefits and meals from 1 January 2024. Most questions were related to topics causing difficulties for employers in practice.

Against a backdrop of falling global M&A activity, dealmaking in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) held up relatively well The number of transactions in the region in 2023 equals 1,097 The total value of M&A activity reaches €37.3bn