Deutsche Bank's buyback justifies more fair value accounting

Deutsche bank intends to buy back a significant amount of debt, according to the FT.

Interestingly, I wrote about these buybacks in a paper with Annelies Renders of Maastricht university.

These buyback transactions are generally disappointing. The idea is to generate CET1 capital, but this goes at the expense of liquidity and solvency, thus not contributi…