Electricity Europe – House of the Year: Deutsche Bank
This year’s winner of our European Electricity House of the Year award is Deutsche Bank for its enormous drive into the European power markets over the last two years. Building on its established presence in the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the Benelux countries since 2007, it added five new regions – Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway and Greece – at the end of 2009.
Currently, the bank is venturing into the high-growth, emerging markets in Eastern Europe, including Hungary, Romania
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