How a Pillar of German Banking Lost Its Way

“Deutsche Bank as we once knew it is dead.” Such is the conclusion of three veteran reporters in Germany’s newsmagazine Der Spiegel. Not without nostalgia, the authors provide a scathing critique of how Germany’s largest bank, once exemplifying solid “German values,” turned into a global investment bank embroiled in a series of financial scandals. The authors are pessimistic about the bank’s future, suggesting that it might not be able to survive. getAbstract recommends this article, which is partly an institutional history and partly a passionate wake-up call, to anybody interested in Germany’s iconic institution and German tax payers.