From July 2015 to April 2018 he was chief executive of Deutsche Bank AG in Frankfurt am Main.

[3] Cryan worked for Arthur Andersen and then joined S.G. Warburg in London in 1987, before he was appointed group chief financial officer at UBS AG in September 2008.

[6] In January 2012, he joined Singapore's investment company Temasek as president for Europe.

[1] Cryan was appointed co-chief executive officer of Deutsche Bank in June 2015,[8][9] a position he shared with Jürgen Fitschen until May 2016, when he became sole CEO.

[10] On 8 April 2018, Cryan was replaced by Christian Sewing as chief executive at Deutsche Bank.