Deutsche Bank Launches Client-Data Compliance Probe after LayoffsDeutsche Bank is reviewing whether it allowed confidential client data to be compromised by former employees who were laid off earlier this month. Approximately 50 former traders from Deutsche’s London and New York offices were able to access the bank’s systems and their emails in the weeks that followed the lender’s first round of layoffs, the newspaper reported. One individual formerly involved in equity sales sent around 450 messages via remote access after she was laid off, according to the report.
The internal probe, lead by the bank’s global compliance chief Jeremy Kirk, will seek to determine whether ex-bankers accessed price-sensitive data and whether current employees aided their former colleagues in obtaining such information.
The troubled lender is in the process of eliminating some 18,000 positions, or roughly a fifth of its workforce, as it attempts to shed unwanted assets and overhaul its compliance efforts. As part of that effort, Deutsche is investing €4 billion in its internal controls and combining its anti-money laundering, risk and compliance functions.
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