给川普贷款的德意志银行名声很不好

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过去这些年已经出过好多幺蛾子了。

[牛大春]

去维基上查了一下：

2007年到2012年之间德意志银行因涉嫌为伊朗和苏丹企业洗钱而被美国当局调查。但由於德意志银行的系统缺陷导致无法查出2011-2015年间疑似洗钱交易，美国联邦储备委员会於2017年对德意志银行罚款4,100万美元。

德意志银行也被怀疑参与了北韓和中華人民共和國的贸易交易。

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Controversies
Deutsche Bank in general as well as specific employees have frequently figured in controversies and allegations of deceitful behavior or illegal transactions. As of 2016, the bank was involved in some 7,800 legal disputes and calculated €5.4 billion as litigation reserves,[133] with a further €2.2 billion held against other contingent liabilities.[98] According to the New Yorker, Deutsche Bank has long had an "abject" reputation.[6] Between 2008 and 2016, Deutsche Bank paid around nine billion dollars in fines and settlements related to wrongdoings across different issue areas.[6] The FinCEN file leaks documented around $1.3 trillion of suspicious transactions through Deutsche Bank between 1999 and 2017.[6] More than half of all suspicious transactions involving major banks in the FinCEN files leaks involved Deutsche Bank.[6]

Role in financial crisis of 2007–2008
See also: Financial crisis of 2007–2008
In January 2017, Deutsche Bank agreed to a $7.2 billion settlement with the United States Department of Justice over its sale and pooling of toxic mortgage securities in the years leading up to the Financial crisis of 2007–2008. As part of the agreement, Deutsche Bank was required to pay a civil monetary penalty of $3.1 billion and provide $4.1 billion in consumer relief, such as loan forgiveness. At the time of the agreement, Deutsche Bank was still facing investigations into the alleged manipulation of foreign exchange rates, suspicious equities trades in Russia, as well as alleged violations of United States sanctions against Iran and other countries. Since 2012, Deutsche Bank had paid more than €12 billion for litigation, including a deal with U.S. mortgage-finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.[134]

Espionage scandal, 2009
In 2009, the bank admitted it engaged in covert espionage on its critics from 2001 to 2007 directed by its corporate security department, although it characterized the incidents as "isolated".[135] According to The Wall Street Journal, Deutsche Bank had prepared a list of names of people who it wanted investigated for criticism of the bank, including Michael Bohndorf (an activist investor in the bank), Leo Kirch (a former media executive in litigation with the bank), and the Munich law firm of Bub Gauweiler & Partner, which represented Kirch.[135] According to the Wall Street Journal, the bank's legal department was involved in the scheme along with its corporate security department.[135] The bank hired Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton to investigate the incidents on its behalf. The Cleary firm submitted its report, which however was not made public.[135] According to The Wall Street Journal, the Cleary firm uncovered a plan by which Deutsche Bank was to infiltrate the Bub Gauweiler firm by having a bank mole hired as an intern at the Bub Gauweiler firm. The plan was allegedly cancelled after the intern was hired but before she started work.[135] Peter Gauweiler, a principal at the targeted law firm, was quoted as saying "I expect the appropriate authorities including state prosecutors and the bank's oversight agencies will conduct a full investigation."[135]

Deutsche Bank's law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in Frankfurt[136] published a report in July 2009 saying,[137] it found no systemic misbehaviour and there was no indication that present members of the management board had been involved in any activity that raises legal issues or has had any knowledge of such activities.[137] This was confirmed by the Public Prosecutor's Office in Frankfurt in October 2009.[138] BaFin found deficiencies in operations within Deutsche Bank's security unit in Germany but no systemic misconduct.[139] The bank said it took steps to strengthen controls for the mandating of external service providers by its Corporate Security Department.[137]

Deutsche Bank document release, 2014
On 26 January 2014, William S. Broeksmit, a risk specialist at Deutsche Bank who was very close to Anshu Jain and hired by Edson Mitchell to spearhead Deutsche Bank's foray into international investments and money management in the 1990s, released numerous Deutsche Bank documents from the New York branch of the Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas (DBTCA), which Broeksmit's adopted son Val Broeksmit, who is a close friend of Moby, later gave, along with numerous emails, to both Welt am Sonntag and ZDF, which revealed numerous irregularities including both a $10 billion money laundering scheme spearheaded by the Russia branch of Deutsche Bank at Moscow, which the New York State Department of Financial Services fined Deutsche Bank $425 million, and derivatives improprieties.[140][141][51][142][143][144][72][d]

Libor scandal, 2015
See also: Libor scandal
On 23 April 2015, Deutsche Bank agreed to a combined US$2.5 billion in fines – a US$2.175 billion fine by American regulators, and a €227 million penalty by British authorities – for its involvement in the Libor scandal uncovered in June 2012. It was one of several banks colluding to fix interest rates used to price hundreds of trillions of dollars of loans and contracts worldwide, including mortgages and student loans.[146][147] Deutsche Bank also pleaded guilty to wire fraud, acknowledging that at least 29 employees had engaged in illegal activity. It was required to dismiss all employees who were involved with the fraudulent transactions.[147] However, no individuals were charged with criminal wrongdoing. In a Libor first, Deutsche Bank will be required to install an independent monitor.[146] Commenting on the fine, Britain's Financial Conduct Authority director Georgina Philippou said "This case stands out for the seriousness and duration of the breaches ... One division at Deutsche Bank had a culture of generating profits without proper regard to the integrity of the market. This wasn't limited to a few individuals but, on certain desks, it appeared deeply ingrained."[147] The fine represented a record for interest rate related cases, eclipsing a $1.5 billion Libor related fine to UBS, and the then-record $450 million fine assessed to Barclays earlier in the case.[147][146] The size of the fine reflected the breadth of wrongdoing at Deutsche Bank, the bank's poor oversight of traders, and its failure to take action when it uncovered signs of abuse internally.[146]

U.S. sanctions violations, 2015
On 5 November 2015, Deutsche Bank was ordered to pay US$258 million (€237.2 million) in penalties imposed by the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) and the United States Federal Reserve Bank after the bank was caught doing business with Burma, Libya, Sudan, Iran, and Syria, which were under US sanctions at the time. According to the US federal authorities, Deutsche Bank handled 27,200 US dollar clearing transactions valued at more than US$10.86 billion (€9.98 billion) to help evade US sanctions between early 1999 until 2006 which were done on behalf of Iranian, Libyan, Syrian, Burmese, and Sudanese financial institutions and other entities subject to US sanctions, including entities on the Specially Designated Nationals by the Office of Foreign Assets Control.[148][149]

In response to the penalties, the bank will pay US$200 million (€184 million) to the NYDFS while the rest (US$58 million; €53.3 million) will go to the Federal Reserve. In addition to the payment, the bank will install an independent monitor, fire six employees who were involved in the incident, and ban three other employees from any work involving the bank's US-based operations.[150]

Tax evasion, 2016
In June 2016 six former employees in Germany were accused of being involved in a major tax fraud deal with CO2 emission certificates, and most of them were subsequently convicted. It was estimated that the sum of money in the tax evasion scandal might have been as high as €850 million. Deutsche Bank itself was not convicted due to an absence of corporate liability laws in Germany.[151]

Dakota Access Pipeline, 2016
See also: Dakota Access Pipeline protests
Environmentalists criticize Deutsche Bank for co-financing the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline, which is planned to run close to an Indian reservation and is seen as a threat to their livelihood by its inhabitants.[152]

Deutsche Bank has issued a statement addressing the criticism it received from various environmental groups.[153]

Russian money-laundering operations
In January 2017, the bank was fined $425 million by the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS)[154] and £163 million by the UK Financial Conduct Authority[155] regarding accusations of laundering $10 billion out of Russia.[156][157][158]

In the decade preceding the Russian mirror-trading scheme, Deutsche Bank was informed of substantial and widespread compliance concerns. The offsetting trades in this instance lacked economic purpose and could have been used to facilitate money laundering or other illegal activity.[159] On 30 January 2017, the NYSDFS (New York State Department of Financial Services) fined Deutsche Bank $425 million for violating New York's anti-money laundering laws. There was a "mirror trading" scheme involved. Deutsche Bank's Moscow, London, and New York branches laundered $10 billion out of Russia.[160]

The Global Laundromat scandal revealed Deutsche Bank's involvement in a vast money-laundering operation over the period 2010–2014. The operation may have involved as much as $80 billion. In 2019, The Guardian reported that a confidential internal report at Deutsche Bank showed that the bank could face fines, legal action, and even possible prosecution of senior management over the bank's role in the money laundering.[161]

In 2020, it was reported that Deutsche Bank was pursuing an expansion of its Russia operations.[162]

In the wake of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Deutsche Bank refused to close down its Russia business. At the same time, other banks and major businesses were exiting Russia.[163]

In June 2023, the bank notified customers that it could no longer guarantee them access to the shares they hold on the basis of depositary receipts issued prior to February 2022. He explained this by the shortage of shares in the Russian depository. The bank also warned that it would be able to return the funds for the share significantly below the market price.[164]

Relationship with Donald Trump, 1995–2021

Further information: Timeline of investigations into Trump and Russia (January–June 2017), Timeline of investigations into Trump and Russia (July–December 2017), Timeline of investigations into Trump and Russia (2019), and Wealth of Donald Trump
Deutsche Bank is widely recognized as being the largest creditor to real-estate mogul and politician Donald Trump,[165][166][167] 45th President of the United States, lending him and his company more than $2 billion over twenty years ending 2020.[168] The bank held more than $360 million in outstanding loans to him prior to his 2016 election. Although his 2019 final report never mentioned Deutsche Bank, as of December 2017, Special Counsel Robert Mueller investigated Deutsche Bank's role in Trump and Russian parties allegedly cooperating to elect him.[169] As of March 2019, Deutsche Bank's relationship with Trump was also under investigation by two U.S. congressional committees and by the New York attorney general.[170][171][172]

In April 2019, House Democrats subpoenaed the Bank for Trump's personal and financial records.[173][174][175][176][177] On 29 April 2019, U.S. President Donald Trump, his business, and his children Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, and Ivanka Trump sued Deutsche Bank and Capital One bank to block them from turning over financial records to congressional committees.[178] On 22 May 2019, judge Edgardo Ramos of the federal District Court in Manhattan rejected the Trump suit against Deutsche Bank, ruling the bank must comply with congressional subpoenas.[179] Six days later, Ramos granted Trump's attorneys their request for a stay so they could pursue an expedited appeal through the courts.[180] In October 2019, a federal appeals court said the bank asserted it did not have Trump's tax returns.[181] In December 2019, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Deutsche Bank must release Trump's financial records, with some exceptions, to congressional committees; Trump was given seven days to seek another stay pending a possible appeal to the Supreme Court.[182]

In May 2019, The New York Times reported that anti-money laundering specialists in the bank detected what appeared to be suspicious transactions involving entities controlled by Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner, for which they recommended filing suspicious activity reports with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the Treasury Department, but bank executives rejected the recommendations. One specialist noted money moving from Kushner Companies to Russian individuals and flagged it in part because of the bank's previous involvement in a Russian money-laundering scheme.[183][184]

On 19 November 2019, Thomas Bowers, a former Deutsche Bank executive and head of the American wealth management division, was reported to have committed suicide in his Malibu home.[185] Bowers had been in charge of overseeing and personally signing over $360 million in high-risk loans for Trump's National Doral Miami resort.[186] The loans had been subject to a criminal investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller in his investigation of the president's 2016 campaign involvement in Russian election meddling. Documents on those loans have also been subpoenaed from Deutsche Bank by the House Democrats together with the financial documents of the president. A relationship between Bowers's responsibilities and apparent suicide has not been established; the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner – Coroner closed the case, giving no indication to wrongdoing by third parties.[187]

In early 2021, Deutsche Bank elected to discontinue its relationship with Donald Trump following the January 6 United States Capitol attack.[188]

Fine for business with Jeffrey Epstein, 2020
Deutsche Bank lent money and traded currencies for the well-known sex offender Jeffrey Epstein up to May 2019, long after Epstein's 2008 guilty plea in Florida to soliciting prostitution from underage girls, according to news reports.[189][160][190] Epstein and his businesses had dozens of accounts through the private-banking division.[191][192] From 2013 to 2018, "Epstein, his related entities and his associates" had opened over forty accounts with Deutsche Bank.[193]

According to The New York Times, Deutsche Bank managers overruled compliance officers who raised concerns about Epstein's reputation.[160]

The bank found suspicious transactions in which Epstein moved money out of the United States, The Times reported.[191]

On 7 July 2020, the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) imposed a $150 million penalty on Deutsche Bank, in connection with Epstein. The bank had "ignored red flags on Epstein".[193][194]

On 24 November, two unnamed women that accused Epstein of sexual abuse and sex trafficking also sued Deutsche Bank for its role in enabling Epstein to run his sex-trafficking operations by ignoring red flags regarding his account and the withdrawal of suspiciously high sums of money.[195]

Involvement in Danske Bank money-laundering scandal, 2018
On 19 November 2018, a whistleblower of the Danske Bank money laundering scandal stated that a large European bank was involved in helping Danske process $150 billion in suspect funds.[196] Although the whistleblower, Howard Wilkinson, did not name Deutsche Bank directly, another inside source claimed the institute in question was Deutsche Bank's U.S. unit.[197] In 2020 it became known that the U.S. arm of Deutsche Bank processed more than $150 billion of the $230 billion dirty money through New York, for which it was fined 150 million $. After a raid in 2019, Frankfurt-based prosecutors imposed a fine of $15.8 million in 2020 for DB's failure on more than 600 occasions to promptly report suspicious transactions.[198]

Improper handling of ADRs, 2018
On 20 July 2018, Deutsche Bank agreed to pay nearly $75 million to settle charges of improper handling of "pre-released" American depositary receipt (ADRs) under investigation of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Deutsche Bank didn't admit or deny the investigation findings but agreed to pay disgorgement of more than $44.4 million in ill-gotten gains plus $6.6 million in prejudgment interest and a penalty of $22.2 million.[199][200]

Malaysian 1MDB fund
In July 2019, U.S. prosecutors investigated Deutsche Bank's role in a multibillion-dollar fraud scandal involving the 1Malaysia Development Berhad, or 1MDB.[201][202] Deutsche Bank helped raise $1.2 billion for the 1MDB in 2014.[202] As of May 2021 Malaysia sued Deutsche Bank to recover billions in alleged losses from a corruption scandal at the fund.[203]

Commodities trading, bribery fine, 2021
In January 2021, Deutsche Bank agreed to pay a U.S. fine of more than $130 million for a scheme to conceal bribes to foreign officials in countries such as Saudi Arabia and China, and the city of Abu Dhabi, between 2008 and 2017 and a commodities case where it spoofed precious metals futures.[204][205][206]

Strip club scandal, 2022
In March 2022, Ben Darsney, Ravi Raghunathan, Brandon Sun, and Daniel Gaona were exposed for trying to expense strip club nights out as legitimate business visits. Brandon Sun attempted to cover up the incident, but the bankers were let go for violating the Company Code of Conduct.[207]

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Controversies
Deutsche Bank in general as well as specific employees have frequently figured in controversies and allegations of deceitful behavior or illegal transactions. As of 2016, the bank was involved in some 7,800 legal disputes and calculated €5.4 billion as litigation reserves,[133] with a further €2.2 billion held against other contingent liabilities.[98] According to the New Yorker, Deutsche Bank has long had an "abject" reputation.[6] Between 2008 and 2016, Deutsche Bank paid around nine billion dollars in fines and settlements related to wrongdoings across different issue areas.[6] The FinCEN file leaks documented around $1.3 trillion of suspicious transactions through Deutsche Bank between 1999 and 2017.[6] More than half of all suspicious transactions involving major banks in the FinCEN files leaks involved Deutsche Bank.[6]

Role in financial crisis of 2007–2008
See also: Financial crisis of 2007–2008
In January 2017, Deutsche Bank agreed to a $7.2 billion settlement with the United States Department of Justice over its sale and pooling of toxic mortgage securities in the years leading up to the Financial crisis of 2007–2008. As part of the agreement, Deutsche Bank was required to pay a civil monetary penalty of $3.1 billion and provide $4.1 billion in consumer relief, such as loan forgiveness. At the time of the agreement, Deutsche Bank was still facing investigations into the alleged manipulation of foreign exchange rates, suspicious equities trades in Russia, as well as alleged violations of United States sanctions against Iran and other countries. Since 2012, Deutsche Bank had paid more than €12 billion for litigation, including a deal with U.S. mortgage-finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.[134]

Espionage scandal, 2009
In 2009, the bank admitted it engaged in covert espionage on its critics from 2001 to 2007 directed by its corporate security department, although it characterized the incidents as "isolated".[135] According to The Wall Street Journal, Deutsche Bank had prepared a list of names of people who it wanted investigated for criticism of the bank, including Michael Bohndorf (an activist investor in the bank), Leo Kirch (a former media executive in litigation with the bank), and the Munich law firm of Bub Gauweiler & Partner, which represented Kirch.[135] According to the Wall Street Journal, the bank's legal department was involved in the scheme along with its corporate security department.[135] The bank hired Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton to investigate the incidents on its behalf. The Cleary firm submitted its report, which however was not made public.[135] According to The Wall Street Journal, the Cleary firm uncovered a plan by which Deutsche Bank was to infiltrate the Bub Gauweiler firm by having a bank mole hired as an intern at the Bub Gauweiler firm. The plan was allegedly cancelled after the intern was hired but before she started work.[135] Peter Gauweiler, a principal at the targeted law firm, was quoted as saying "I expect the appropriate authorities including state prosecutors and the bank's oversight agencies will conduct a full investigation."[135]

Deutsche Bank's law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in Frankfurt[136] published a report in July 2009 saying,[137] it found no systemic misbehaviour and there was no indication that present members of the management board had been involved in any activity that raises legal issues or has had any knowledge of such activities.[137] This was confirmed by the Public Prosecutor's Office in Frankfurt in October 2009.[138] BaFin found deficiencies in operations within Deutsche Bank's security unit in Germany but no systemic misconduct.[139] The bank said it took steps to strengthen controls for the mandating of external service providers by its Corporate Security Department.[137]

Deutsche Bank document release, 2014
On 26 January 2014, William S. Broeksmit, a risk specialist at Deutsche Bank who was very close to Anshu Jain and hired by Edson Mitchell to spearhead Deutsche Bank's foray into international investments and money management in the 1990s, released numerous Deutsche Bank documents from the New York branch of the Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas (DBTCA), which Broeksmit's adopted son Val Broeksmit, who is a close friend of Moby, later gave, along with numerous emails, to both Welt am Sonntag and ZDF, which revealed numerous irregularities including both a $10 billion money laundering scheme spearheaded by the Russia branch of Deutsche Bank at Moscow, which the New York State Department of Financial Services fined Deutsche Bank $425 million, and derivatives improprieties.[140][141][51][142][143][144][72][d]

Libor scandal, 2015
See also: Libor scandal
On 23 April 2015, Deutsche Bank agreed to a combined US$2.5 billion in fines – a US$2.175 billion fine by American regulators, and a €227 million penalty by British authorities – for its involvement in the Libor scandal uncovered in June 2012. It was one of several banks colluding to fix interest rates used to price hundreds of trillions of dollars of loans and contracts worldwide, including mortgages and student loans.[146][147] Deutsche Bank also pleaded guilty to wire fraud, acknowledging that at least 29 employees had engaged in illegal activity. It was required to dismiss all employees who were involved with the fraudulent transactions.[147] However, no individuals were charged with criminal wrongdoing. In a Libor first, Deutsche Bank will be required to install an independent monitor.[146] Commenting on the fine, Britain's Financial Conduct Authority director Georgina Philippou said "This case stands out for the seriousness and duration of the breaches ... One division at Deutsche Bank had a culture of generating profits without proper regard to the integrity of the market. This wasn't limited to a few individuals but, on certain desks, it appeared deeply ingrained."[147] The fine represented a record for interest rate related cases, eclipsing a $1.5 billion Libor related fine to UBS, and the then-record $450 million fine assessed to Barclays earlier in the case.[147][146] The size of the fine reflected the breadth of wrongdoing at Deutsche Bank, the bank's poor oversight of traders, and its failure to take action when it uncovered signs of abuse internally.[146]

U.S. sanctions violations, 2015
On 5 November 2015, Deutsche Bank was ordered to pay US$258 million (€237.2 million) in penalties imposed by the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) and the United States Federal Reserve Bank after the bank was caught doing business with Burma, Libya, Sudan, Iran, and Syria, which were under US sanctions at the time. According to the US federal authorities, Deutsche Bank handled 27,200 US dollar clearing transactions valued at more than US$10.86 billion (€9.98 billion) to help evade US sanctions between early 1999 until 2006 which were done on behalf of Iranian, Libyan, Syrian, Burmese, and Sudanese financial institutions and other entities subject to US sanctions, including entities on the Specially Designated Nationals by the Office of Foreign Assets Control.[148][149]

In response to the penalties, the bank will pay US$200 million (€184 million) to the NYDFS while the rest (US$58 million; €53.3 million) will go to the Federal Reserve. In addition to the payment, the bank will install an independent monitor, fire six employees who were involved in the incident, and ban three other employees from any work involving the bank's US-based operations.[150]

Tax evasion, 2016
In June 2016 six former employees in Germany were accused of being involved in a major tax fraud deal with CO2 emission certificates, and most of them were subsequently convicted. It was estimated that the sum of money in the tax evasion scandal might have been as high as €850 million. Deutsche Bank itself was not convicted due to an absence of corporate liability laws in Germany.[151]

Dakota Access Pipeline, 2016
See also: Dakota Access Pipeline protests
Environmentalists criticize Deutsche Bank for co-financing the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline, which is planned to run close to an Indian reservation and is seen as a threat to their livelihood by its inhabitants.[152]

Deutsche Bank has issued a statement addressing the criticism it received from various environmental groups.[153]

Russian money-laundering operations
In January 2017, the bank was fined $425 million by the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS)[154] and £163 million by the UK Financial Conduct Authority[155] regarding accusations of laundering $10 billion out of Russia.[156][157][158]

In the decade preceding the Russian mirror-trading scheme, Deutsche Bank was informed of substantial and widespread compliance concerns. The offsetting trades in this instance lacked economic purpose and could have been used to facilitate money laundering or other illegal activity.[159] On 30 January 2017, the NYSDFS (New York State Department of Financial Services) fined Deutsche Bank $425 million for violating New York's anti-money laundering laws. There was a "mirror trading" scheme involved. Deutsche Bank's Moscow, London, and New York branches laundered $10 billion out of Russia.[160]

The Global Laundromat scandal revealed Deutsche Bank's involvement in a vast money-laundering operation over the period 2010–2014. The operation may have involved as much as $80 billion. In 2019, The Guardian reported that a confidential internal report at Deutsche Bank showed that the bank could face fines, legal action, and even possible prosecution of senior management over the bank's role in the money laundering.[161]

In 2020, it was reported that Deutsche Bank was pursuing an expansion of its Russia operations.[162]

In the wake of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Deutsche Bank refused to close down its Russia business. At the same time, other banks and major businesses were exiting Russia.[163]

In June 2023, the bank notified customers that it could no longer guarantee them access to the shares they hold on the basis of depositary receipts issued prior to February 2022. He explained this by the shortage of shares in the Russian depository. The bank also warned that it would be able to return the funds for the share significantly below the market price.[164]

Relationship with Donald Trump, 1995–2021

Further information: Timeline of investigations into Trump and Russia (January–June 2017), Timeline of investigations into Trump and Russia (July–December 2017), Timeline of investigations into Trump and Russia (2019), and Wealth of Donald Trump
Deutsche Bank is widely recognized as being the largest creditor to real-estate mogul and politician Donald Trump,[165][166][167] 45th President of the United States, lending him and his company more than $2 billion over twenty years ending 2020.[168] The bank held more than $360 million in outstanding loans to him prior to his 2016 election. Although his 2019 final report never mentioned Deutsche Bank, as of December 2017, Special Counsel Robert Mueller investigated Deutsche Bank's role in Trump and Russian parties allegedly cooperating to elect him.[169] As of March 2019, Deutsche Bank's relationship with Trump was also under investigation by two U.S. congressional committees and by the New York attorney general.[170][171][172]

In April 2019, House Democrats subpoenaed the Bank for Trump's personal and financial records.[173][174][175][176][177] On 29 April 2019, U.S. President Donald Trump, his business, and his children Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, and Ivanka Trump sued Deutsche Bank and Capital One bank to block them from turning over financial records to congressional committees.[178] On 22 May 2019, judge Edgardo Ramos of the federal District Court in Manhattan rejected the Trump suit against Deutsche Bank, ruling the bank must comply with congressional subpoenas.[179] Six days later, Ramos granted Trump's attorneys their request for a stay so they could pursue an expedited appeal through the courts.[180] In October 2019, a federal appeals court said the bank asserted it did not have Trump's tax returns.[181] In December 2019, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Deutsche Bank must release Trump's financial records, with some exceptions, to congressional committees; Trump was given seven days to seek another stay pending a possible appeal to the Supreme Court.[182]

In May 2019, The New York Times reported that anti-money laundering specialists in the bank detected what appeared to be suspicious transactions involving entities controlled by Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner, for which they recommended filing suspicious activity reports with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the Treasury Department, but bank executives rejected the recommendations. One specialist noted money moving from Kushner Companies to Russian individuals and flagged it in part because of the bank's previous involvement in a Russian money-laundering scheme.[183][184]

On 19 November 2019, Thomas Bowers, a former Deutsche Bank executive and head of the American wealth management division, was reported to have committed suicide in his Malibu home.[185] Bowers had been in charge of overseeing and personally signing over $360 million in high-risk loans for Trump's National Doral Miami resort.[186] The loans had been subject to a criminal investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller in his investigation of the president's 2016 campaign involvement in Russian election meddling. Documents on those loans have also been subpoenaed from Deutsche Bank by the House Democrats together with the financial documents of the president. A relationship between Bowers's responsibilities and apparent suicide has not been established; the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner – Coroner closed the case, giving no indication to wrongdoing by third parties.[187]

In early 2021, Deutsche Bank elected to discontinue its relationship with Donald Trump following the January 6 United States Capitol attack.[188]

Fine for business with Jeffrey Epstein, 2020
Deutsche Bank lent money and traded currencies for the well-known sex offender Jeffrey Epstein up to May 2019, long after Epstein's 2008 guilty plea in Florida to soliciting prostitution from underage girls, according to news reports.[189][160][190] Epstein and his businesses had dozens of accounts through the private-banking division.[191][192] From 2013 to 2018, "Epstein, his related entities and his associates" had opened over forty accounts with Deutsche Bank.[193]

According to The New York Times, Deutsche Bank managers overruled compliance officers who raised concerns about Epstein's reputation.[160]

The bank found suspicious transactions in which Epstein moved money out of the United States, The Times reported.[191]

On 7 July 2020, the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) imposed a $150 million penalty on Deutsche Bank, in connection with Epstein. The bank had "ignored red flags on Epstein".[193][194]

On 24 November, two unnamed women that accused Epstein of sexual abuse and sex trafficking also sued Deutsche Bank for its role in enabling Epstein to run his sex-trafficking operations by ignoring red flags regarding his account and the withdrawal of suspiciously high sums of money.[195]

Involvement in Danske Bank money-laundering scandal, 2018
On 19 November 2018, a whistleblower of the Danske Bank money laundering scandal stated that a large European bank was involved in helping Danske process $150 billion in suspect funds.[196] Although the whistleblower, Howard Wilkinson, did not name Deutsche Bank directly, another inside source claimed the institute in question was Deutsche Bank's U.S. unit.[197] In 2020 it became known that the U.S. arm of Deutsche Bank processed more than $150 billion of the $230 billion dirty money through New York, for which it was fined 150 million $. After a raid in 2019, Frankfurt-based prosecutors imposed a fine of $15.8 million in 2020 for DB's failure on more than 600 occasions to promptly report suspicious transactions.[198]

Improper handling of ADRs, 2018
On 20 July 2018, Deutsche Bank agreed to pay nearly $75 million to settle charges of improper handling of "pre-released" American depositary receipt (ADRs) under investigation of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Deutsche Bank didn't admit or deny the investigation findings but agreed to pay disgorgement of more than $44.4 million in ill-gotten gains plus $6.6 million in prejudgment interest and a penalty of $22.2 million.[199][200]

Malaysian 1MDB fund
In July 2019, U.S. prosecutors investigated Deutsche Bank's role in a multibillion-dollar fraud scandal involving the 1Malaysia Development Berhad, or 1MDB.[201][202] Deutsche Bank helped raise $1.2 billion for the 1MDB in 2014.[202] As of May 2021 Malaysia sued Deutsche Bank to recover billions in alleged losses from a corruption scandal at the fund.[203]

Commodities trading, bribery fine, 2021
In January 2021, Deutsche Bank agreed to pay a U.S. fine of more than $130 million for a scheme to conceal bribes to foreign officials in countries such as Saudi Arabia and China, and the city of Abu Dhabi, between 2008 and 2017 and a commodities case where it spoofed precious metals futures.[204][205][206]

Strip club scandal, 2022
In March 2022, Ben Darsney, Ravi Raghunathan, Brandon Sun, and Daniel Gaona were exposed for trying to expense strip club nights out as legitimate business visits. Brandon Sun attempted to cover up the incident, but the bankers were let go for violating the Company Code of Conduct.[207]

哇塞，它是德国最大的银行吧

[牛大春]

哇塞，它是德国最大的银行吧

不一定吧？德意志银行是家私有银行，跟德国央行没有关系。

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哇塞，它是德国最大的银行吧

不一定吧？德意志银行是家私有银行，跟德国央行没有关系。

央行不算商业银行。我搜的是 Deutsche bank ranking in Germany， 2020 年的排名。
https://www.german-way.com/travel-and-t ... %20Bank's.

Deutsche Bank today remains by far the largest German bank, with assets of 1.33 trillion euros in December 2020. Worldwide, Deutsche ranked 21st, as of August 2021. No other German bank ranks in global the top 50. The next two largest German banks have assets that are only about a fourth of Deutsche Bank’s. But with all the economic turmoil in the world these days, such rankings can change quickly. Banking experts have criticized Germany’s current banking system for being too fragmented and uncompetitive. German bank customers are far less likely to change banks than most other nationalities.

Not that long ago Deutsche Bank, Germany’s largest bank, was also number one in the world, based on total assets. By 2012 it ranked third in the world, with only China’s ICBC bank (No. 1) and the UK’s HSBC bank (No. 2) placing higher. Four years later, as of April 2016, Deutsche Bank had dropped to number seven in the world by total assets. As of 2018, the top four banks in the world were Chinese, and Deutsche was number eleven

[牛大春]

不一定吧？德意志银行是家私有银行，跟德国央行没有关系。

央行不算商业银行。我搜的是 Deutsche bank ranking in Germany， 2020 年的排名。
https://www.german-way.com/travel-and-t ... %20Bank's.

Deutsche Bank today remains by far the largest German bank, with assets of 1.33 trillion euros in December 2020. Worldwide, Deutsche ranked 21st, as of August 2021. No other German bank ranks in global the top 50. The next two largest German banks have assets that are only about a fourth of Deutsche Bank’s. But with all the economic turmoil in the world these days, such rankings can change quickly. Banking experts have criticized Germany’s current banking system for being too fragmented and uncompetitive. German bank customers are far less likely to change banks than most other nationalities.

Not that long ago Deutsche Bank, Germany’s largest bank, was also number one in the world, based on total assets. By 2012 it ranked third in the world, with only China’s ICBC bank (No. 1) and the UK’s HSBC bank (No. 2) placing higher. Four years later, as of April 2016, Deutsche Bank had dropped to number seven in the world by total assets. As of 2018, the top four banks in the world were Chinese, and Deutsche was number eleven

德国人爱往那个银行存钱。所以当年解决它的坏账成了一个政治问题。。。

[牛河梁]

就是外国势力培养美奸利益输送（行贿受贿）嘛。

事情就在哪里。受贿还是诈骗随便当事人自己选。

当事人不承认是行贿受贿，那只能是诈骗银行啰。

[who]

就是外国势力培养美奸利益输送（行贿受贿）嘛。

事情就在哪里。受贿还是诈骗随便当事人自己选。

当事人不承认是行贿受贿，那只能是诈骗银行啰。

如果 Trump 不当总统，那这事应该就无人知晓了吧。

[牛河梁]

就是外国势力培养美奸利益输送（行贿受贿）嘛。

事情就在哪里。受贿还是诈骗随便当事人自己选。

当事人不承认是行贿受贿，那只能是诈骗银行啰。

如果 Trump 不当总统，那这事应该就无人知晓了吧。

如果没有这种事，Trump能不能当上总统？