Private Banks: Planning certainty is not a discount model!

The DBV expects the Employers’ Association of Private Banks to present a comprehensive, financially and substantively concrete, and reasonable offer at the second round of negotiations for the 2026 collective bargaining cycle on November 2. Our demands—a 9.5% increase over 24 months, greater autonomy over working hours and reduced workload, additional training in light of AI, and further safeguards—are not merely a wish list, but rather an expression of the employees’ basic needs and, at the same time, of the companies’ existing economic capabilities. It is precisely the possibility of a longer contract term that calls on the employer side to respond with an uncompromising offer at the collective bargaining table in Frankfurt…