Has spy novelist Len Deighton heard of the merger that the rest of us have missed? In his latest book, Charity, the main character, Bernard Samson, meets “a mergers and acquisitions man from Deutsche Morgan Stanley” in Berlin.
Did Deighton latch on to earlier rumours? “We were certainly interested in buying them back in 1984-85, but the deal fell through,” says a former Deutsche Bank employee who helped to set up the bank’s London operation in the 1980s.
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