European bank performance in review: Hitting the bottom, finally?

Deutsche Bank Research | Mar 25, 2021 at 1:00 AM

The coronavirus pandemic has turned the banking sector upside down, too, with loan demand by customers, issuance and trading activity in capital markets and banks’ liquidity buffers all skyrocketing, governments providing broad credit guarantees, digital payments gaining much ground at the expense of cash, interest rates slumping to new lows and expected loan losses surging.