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Landesbank Baden-Wuerrtemberg (LBBW) announced to cut 1,000 jobs within the next four years. The bank wants to improve quality and efficiency. Mostly affected are the areas of retail banking and credit processing. In each branch about 500 jobs will be cut. Redundancies are due to high costs of regulation, digitisation and historically low interest rates. Therefore, LBBW will invest 400 million Euro in the expansion of digital offering. Currently, the Cost-Income-Ratio amounts 70.9 percent whereas the bank wants to reach a figure below 60 percent.
The management emphasises the importance of socially acceptable redundancies. Employees can opt for retirement or move to a transition company and a total of 35 million Euro are provided for severance payments.
Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg, headquartered in Stuttgart, currently employs 11,120 employees.
Eurofound (2016), Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 86987, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/86987.