Investment Banking Operations (IB Ops) is a dynamic and diverse division that ensures trades are settled in a timely, cost efficient manner, that risk is minimised and that the client experience is a pleasant one, encouraging them to trade with us again. It is the aspiration of Investment Banking Operations to become a world class operation group for the Bank which supports a world class sales and trading division.

Spread across multiple product areas (Derivatives, Securities, Global Finance & Foreign Exchange Operations, Loans, Trust and Securities, as well as cross functional entities) IB Operations does things smarter, faster and more effectively. It meets the technical and operational challenges of processing transactions worth hundreds of billions of Euros every day, across multiple time zones in all the major currencies and markets. Through Operations we seek to grow profitability by means of efficient trade processing, offering world-class services and minimising operational and reputational risk. Investment Banking Operations is made up of the following product operations areas:

• Derivatives Operations
• Securities Operations (Equity & Fixed Income)
• Global Finance & Feign Exchange
• Global Exchange Services
• Global Collateral Management & Valuations
• Global Commodities Operations
• Global Loans and LEMG
• Mortgage Operations
• Trust & Securities Operations

These product areas offers trade settlement services, corporate actions and trade transaction, valuations and client reporting; fund administration, asset serving, reconciliations and prime brokerage to Deutsche Bank clients. With nearly 4,500 employees supporting the business worldwide, Investment Banking Operations represents a clear investment in how seriously we take our client relationships, both in terms of efficiency and responsiveness to their needs. IB Ops overriding goal is to provide Global Markets an operating infrastructure and performance results which are significantly better than those of any other Investment Bank in totality and on every key performance metric, and: “To be World Class in everything we do”, says the credo of the entity.