The Lex team's Stuart Kirk and Richard Stovin-Bradford examine the profits warning by Deutsche Bank, the German universal bank, which expects quarterly revenues to be down from €8.5bn a year ago to €8bn. They discuss the strategy to cut risks, the pressures on both the banks's investment and retail sides and questions about splitting the bank.

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