Seventy-two current and former Dresdner Kleinwort bankers have launched a €30m (£26m) claim in one of the first major banking bonus-related cases to be brought in the UK in the wake of the credit crunch.

The claim, filed in the High Court today (8 September) sees Dresdner bankers attempting to secure bonuses and interest amounting to €33.6m which they say was not paid to them following the bank’s takeover by Commerzbank last year.