This is the bank's situation, 146 years after its founding. Once a symbol of Germany
-- Germany Inc. -- and the country's financial pillar. Its managers were respected, admired
as people who lived up to the country's values and expected the same of their employees.
Those times are gone. Deutsche Bank as we once knew it is dead. As one of the bank's former
senior managers said, the bank stumbled into a "Darwinist niche," a place where there were
no more competitors and no more enemies. And the gentlemen at the top of the company became
complacent and inattentive.