Deutsche Bank in talks over sale of IT unit to TCS

German bank is claimed to be in negotiations to promote its retail banking IT operation to Indian IT wide

Karl Flinders,
Emea Insist material Editor, Computer Weekly

Printed: 23 Oct 2020 11: 58

Deutsche Bank is in talks to promote regarded as one of its IT operations to Indian IT companies and products wide Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), in accordance with more than one reports.

The bank is claimed to be seeking to dump Postbank Systems, which it took withhold an eye on of when it obtained Postbank – the German submit residence of job retail bank – in 2008 at some level of the international financial disaster.

Postbank Systems provides IT companies and products to Deutsche Bank’s retail banking operation.

A sale would toughen the bank’s rate-lowering initiatives, announced in 2018. On the time of announcing the cuts, CEO Christian Stitching said measures would contain lowering crew numbers by 18,000. A sale of Postbank, which has about 1,400 crew, would make contributions to this purpose.

The German banking wide is thought of as one of many largest banks on the planet and will quiet salvage more than 70,000 employees after the cuts. It wants to cut again its annual costs to €17bn in 2022, in comparison with €22.8bn in 2019.

“It undoubtedly seems most likely that Postbank Systems is on the auction block,” said Peter Schumacher, CEO of administration consultancy The Worth Management Community. “Deutsche Bank has a fluctuate of transformation initiatives below way geared in opposition to lowering IT and support-residence of job costs.

“For Deutsche Bank, accelerating the mix of Postbank and migrating to a joint IT platform has been central to reaching its projected merger synergies. Now that this has been executed, it is seeking to catch rid of, minimize, and/or consolidate central capabilities, including Postbank Systems.”

Schumacher said the stakes are excessive for Deutsche Bank. “A failure to realize a deal would be any other critical setback for the unnerved firm,” he said.

He added that Deutsche Bank’s rate-lowering initiatives consist of bright more work to its offer centres in India and to offshore service suppliers including TCS.

Deutsche Bank had not commented on the sale by the time of going to press, and Tata Consultancy Services would not observation.

TCS, which has more than 400,000 crew, is thought of as one of many enviornment’s largest IT companies and products corporations. It is a long way most incessantly known as India’s largest IT companies and products firm, nonetheless earlier this month, for a short whereas, it furthermore boasted the ideal market payment of international IT companies and products corporations for the first time. On the time, TCS changed into once valued at virtually $145bn, whereas Accenture, the old largest, changed into once valued at $143.4bn.

Schumacher said Deutsche Bank would not be ready to divest Postbank Systems to an Indian firm with out well-known concessions.

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