Last year, M&A advisory revenue in Australia halved to $1.24 billion, according to Refinitiv data, as activity plummeted with the COVID-19 pandemic hurting investor confidence.
Eugene Tsai, head of the central bank's foreign exchange department, told Reuters that transactions made by the banks in accordance with the rules before Friday had been completed on schedule.
The Taiwan dollar is at a more than 23-year-high against the greenback as the island's trade-dependent economy booms on the back of global demand for its tech products.
The suspension will be a year or more for the most serious cases, the sources said, without saying the length of time being applied to each bank.
About 650 staff in Berlin and Essen have been on an open-ended strike since Saturday as they seek a 6% pay increase, in a significant escalation of a months-long labour dispute.
The employees are among the lowest-paid at the German bank, with starting wages of around 12 euros ($14.45) an hour.
Britain is keen to maintain the City of London's attractiveness as a global financial centre after full access to the EU, hitherto its biggest customer, ended last month.
Overall, the Prudential Regulation Authority's (PRA) approach to the supervision of international banks remains stable and consistent following the UK's withdrawal from the EU.
"This step is neither an acknowledgement of wrongdoing by Andreas nor a change of perception on the part of the bank," Deutsche Bank's finance chief James von Moltke wrote in a memo to staff seen by Reuters.
Deutsche Bank, like most other banks, was forced to supply liquidity to corporate customers ailing from the pandemic, some of which eventually went bust.
“Since the news that a COVID-19 vaccine might be broadly available in the New Year, our global trade finance outlook has improved,” said Daniel Schmand, Deutsche Bank’s Head of Trade Finance and Lending.
Philipp Gossow, who oversees the retail banking business in Germany, told Reuters that the reduction to some 400 branches from around 500 currently would occur primarily in urban locations.
The net loss attributable to shareholders was partly down to the group setting aside 761 million euros to meet potential credit losses risks -- more than four times more than during the same period last year.
Germany's largest bank said last week that it was working with financial watchdog BaFin and Wirecard's insolvency administrator on possible support for Wirecard Bank.
"We all now need transparency and that's the first task to be done," Sewing said at a webcast event organised by Bloomberg News.
The bank, which is undergoing an overhaul after five years of losses, is considering potential cost savings drawn from its experience from the COVID-19 crisis.
