At Annual Meeting Deutsche Bank Faces Protesters Inside and Out

Amidst a festival-like atmosphere, with social activists banging drums outside and Occupy protesters interrupting the speech inside, Deutsche Bank AG (NYSE:DB) (ETR:DBK) (FRA:DBK) co-CEO Jürgen Fitschen vowed to remain a top European investment bank at their annual investor meeting. Speaking in an auditorium that hosted a Miley Cyrus concert just one week ago, Fitschen faced a hostile audience consisting of both social protesters and investors as he outlined a changing European banking market. With many large bank competitors such as UBS AG (NYSE:UBS) and Barclays PLC (ADR) (NYSE:BCS) (LON:BARC) being driven away from lucrative yet risky trading operations that landed the…