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Six equity analysts in New York are now out of a job. In mid-February Deutsche Bank Securities, the US division of the investment bank, decided to fire them. Eighteen months ago that would have been taken as yet further evidence of how the German parent’s love affair with investment banking was coming to an end.
In July 1998 Frank Quattrone had just taken his entire technology investment banking team – over 120 people – to CSFB, Deutsche’s Europe-first policy was regarded as forget-US, and investment bankers were worried that they were losing out in the battle for control, to the Vorstand and the German commercial bankers.
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