Obituary: Anshu Jain, 1963-2022

One of the architects of Deutsche Bank’s corporate and investment bank leaves a complex legacy.

Cricket obsessives are easy to spot. Get them on the subject of the sport, and within a few minutes they will have displayed the tell-tale sign: the instinctive push of the forearm, extending from the elbow, hand angled back – the classic mimicking of a batman’s technique. And from his desk at Deutsche Bank, Anshu Jain needed little excuse to show you his immaculate forward defensive.

It was an odd choice of shot, perhaps, for a man who came to epitomize for many the bullish pre-crisis days of investment banking.

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