Deutsches Risk Rankings 2010: Deutsche Bank top again

Deutsche Bank retained top spot in this year’s Deutsches Risk rankings – its sixth win in a row. Last year’s runner up, Commerzbank, held on to second place, while UniCredit – thanks to its dominance in equity derivatives – usurped DZ Bank in the top three. Research by Ana Mendes

It has been a year of disorientating change in Germany’s derivatives market. If those changes have left the established pecking order more or less untouched – for now, at least – it certainly hasn’t been calm behind the scenes. Dealers have had to amend their pricing practices, holding customers’ hands at the same time; they’ve had to confront the big, far-reaching – but relatively slow-moving – reforms coming out of the Basel Committee and the European Commission; and they’ve had to react to