financetom
Business
financetom
/
Business
/
Germany's PBB withdraws guidance as it winds down US business
News World Market Environment Technology Personal Finance Politics Retail Business Economy Cryptocurrency Forex Stocks Market Commodities
Germany's PBB withdraws guidance as it winds down US business
Jun 17, 2025 11:50 PM

(Reuters) -Deutsche Pfandbriefbank, one of Germany's top property financiers, said on Wednesday that it was withdrawing its full year guidance amid extraordinary expenses from discontinuing its business in the United States.

In the longer term, "the freed-up capital shall be used to accelerate bank's transformation," the lender said in a statement.

PBB said in May that it would not take on new business in the United States as it considered the country too volatile under President Donald Trump.

Wednesday's decision marks a major strategic shift for PBB. The U.S. is its second biggest market, making up 14% of its loan portfolio.

In February, PBB forecast new business volume of between 6.5 billion and 7.5 billion euros for the 2025 financial year and said it expected its CET1 ratio to exceed 15.5%.

In a separate statement on Wednesday, PBB said it was in advanced negotiations to acquire a majority stake in a real estate investment manager that it did not name, with the euro price expected to be in the "mid-double-digit millions."

Shares were down 6% in premarket trade at 0615 GMT.

Comments
Welcome to financetom comments! Please keep conversations courteous and on-topic. To fosterproductive and respectful conversations, you may see comments from our Community Managers.
Sign up to post
Sort by
Show More Comments
Related Articles >
Japan's Eisai developing dementia drug for US market, Nikkei reports
Japan's Eisai developing dementia drug for US market, Nikkei reports
Jun 30, 2024
TOKYO, June 30 (Reuters) - Japanese drugmaker Eisai ( ESALF ) is developing a dementia treatment that it aims to commercialise in the U.S. by fiscal 2030, the Nikkei reported on Sunday. The new drug targets a protein called tau, which causes symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, the newspaper reported. Eisai ( ESALF ) already has a dementia drug on the...
US prosecutors meeting with Boeing, crash victims as criminal charging decision looms, sources say
US prosecutors meeting with Boeing, crash victims as criminal charging decision looms, sources say
Jun 30, 2024
NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. prosecutors are meeting with Boeing ( BA ) and fatal-crash victims' relatives as a July 7 deadline looms for the Justice Department to decide whether to criminally charge the planemaker, according to two people familiar with the matter and correspondence reviewed by Reuters. Justice Department officials met with Boeing ( BA ) lawyers on Thursday to...
Eleven dead in Indian capital after heavy rain, flight operations stutter
Eleven dead in Indian capital after heavy rain, flight operations stutter
Jun 30, 2024
NEW DELHI, June 30 (Reuters) - The death toll from this week's sudden heavy rain has climbed to 11 in New Delhi, including four citizens who drowned in submerged underpasses, the Times of India reported, while flight operations stuttered in the Indian capital. New Delhi, which endured one of its worst heatwaves in history earlier this month, faced the biggest...
Saudi Aramco signs second phase of its Jafurah gas field
Saudi Aramco signs second phase of its Jafurah gas field
Jun 30, 2024
CAIRO, June 30 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's state oil company Aramco has signed contracts for the second phase of the expansion of its Jafurah gas field and the third phase of expanding its main gas network, state-run Al-Ekhbariya TV reported on Sunday. ...
Copyright 2023-2026 - www.financetom.com All Rights Reserved