Loans / lending commitments are a key component of the relationships held by Deutsche Bank with its corporate and financial institutional clients. Relationship loans are typically issued to support the generation of franchise revenues booked by the product lines across the Corporate Bank and Investment Bank divisions. Strategic Corporate Lending (“SCL”) provides governance around the investment of capital into these client relationships and risk manages the approved final hold positions down to pre-defined thresholds set by Credit Risk Management. SCL owns the loan risk that it is hedging within its predominantly senior, unsecured asset class Institutional and Corporate Credit portfolio. SCL hedges the final hold positions using single name CDS and the issuance of CLOs referencing the underlying loan risk. Along with hedging the credit risk of loan book, CLOs also provide regulatory capital relief to the Bank.

The CLO team provides...