Earlier this year, when Deutsche Bank first outlined its plans to integrate its investment banking unit, DMG, more closely into the bank, Frank Quattrone, high-profile head of DMG technology asked the Deutsche Bank Vorstand members responsible for DMG to sign a letter reaffirming the bank's commitment to the investment-banking business, for Quattrone to show to his clients. They were surprised by the request but complied when Quattrone assured them that it was not so unusual in the investment-banking world.
But it proved to be an empty gesture. This July, Quattrone and his key lieutenants quit, taking their business to CSFB. "Quattrone was the US business," wails one Deutsche investment banker. In fact, his is only the latest high-profile departure from the old DMG. The co-heads of DMG's investment-banking division, Carter McClelland and Maurice Thompson resigned earlier this year to be followed by a string of the firm's better known bankers.
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