Deutsche Bank Takes Out Full-Page Ad To Apologize For Its Market-Rigging Misconduct
- Deutsche Bank Takes Out Full-Page Ad To Apologize For Its Market-Rigging Misconduct
by Tyler Durden, www.zerohedge.com
Deutsche Bank took out full-page ads in Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Sueddeutsche Zeitung on Saturday, in which the country’s biggest lender apologized for (getting caught) engaging in market manipulation and misconduct that has cost the company billions. In the ad, signed by CEO John Cryan on behalf of the bank’s top management,the bank said its past conduct “not only cost us money, but also our reputation and trust.“
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The ad said “we in the management committee and bank leadership as a whole will do everything in our power to keep such cases from happening again.”
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While Deutsche Bank’s transgressions culminated most recently with a December $7.2 billion settlement with the U.S. Justice Department over its RMBS dealings in the years leading up to the financial crisis, other “misconduct” cases have included rigging Libor, the precious metals market, as well as money-laundering violations involving trades Russia.
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