Dark Towers
by David Enrich
Deutsche Bank's descent through derivatives, Russian money and Donald Trump's loans, told partly through a banker's suicide. Gripping financial journalism about risk culture gone wrong.
Read it if…
you want a readable account of how a bank's culture rots.
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Skip it if…
you want a neutral corporate history.
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Three things you will actually use
- Culture rots from incentives.
- Compliance is a cost until it is everything.
- Watch who the bank cannot say no to.
Do this first
Read the chapters on the 1990s derivatives push.
Our verdict
A bank's rot, readably.
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