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Deutsche Bank talks austerity in posh hotel

Published: 4 Nov 12 11:38 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/money/20121104-45963.html

Troubled Deutsche Bank has rented out the whole of one of Germany’s poshest hotels – for its top managers to spend three days taking about cutting costs and saving money, a magazine reported at the weekend.

Suites at Berlin’s Adlon Hotel can cost up to €15,000 a night, while the cheapest room will set penny-pinchers back €320 a night – and Deutsche Bank has rented out the entire building, Der Spiegel said, in a report to be published on Monday.

Its top managers will be housed there from Monday through to Wednesday for the major pow-wow on how to save money.

Just a few weeks ago Deutsche Bank chiefs Anshu Jain and Jürgen Fitschen talked about bringing a new culture to the bank in which the much criticized excesses of the past would become history.

The two announced that the bank would seek to cut costs by €4.5 billion by 2015, which is to be accomplished in part by sacking of 2,000 employees by the end of this year.

At the same time, Deutsche Bank tops a list of 28 financial institutions that would provoke a worldwide shock that is impossible to calculate, should any of them collapse.

The “too-big-to-fail” list is established by the Financial Stability Board, an international forum made up of national banks and other institutions.

The Local/DAPD/mw

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13:31 November 4, 2012 by Englishted
Capitalism , don't you just love it .
14:42 November 4, 2012 by realist1961
To offset the cost of the hotel, they have decided to use low priced hookers.
14:56 November 4, 2012 by catjones
DB bribed the hotel for lower rates.
16:38 November 4, 2012 by IchBinKönig
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17:33 November 4, 2012 by zeddriver
To all.

As if capitalism was the problem. Try explaining all the lavish castles of Europe and communist Russia to us then. Bet you can't.

The problem has always been, Is , and will always be, Corrupt people, Corrupt institutions, Corrupt governments. There really isn't a difference among them. Save one. With a corrupt business or person. You can take your business elsewhere or have the corrupt person jailed, fired. Corrupt government! Well that's a little tougher to deal with. Esp. with all the spineless sorts that think the government is always the right answer to everything.
17:42 November 4, 2012 by Englishted
@IchBinKönig

Thank you for your clever and witty comment ,I am only glad that we can learn how to use the English language correctly by following you example.
17:52 November 4, 2012 by twisted
This is typical for the 1%ers....save money by firing people, but not by cutting perks for the managers...just like the car CEOs who flew to Washington in their corporate jets to be plead for money to stay in business instead of flying commercial. The cost of hotel for the meeting period would probably be enough to keep at least 20 people employed for a year, but hey, they are just the little people and are not terribly important. Typical !!!!!
18:20 November 4, 2012 by melbournite
@zeddriver since you asked...

feudalism - class society with lords/kings at the top and serfs at the bottom

capitalism - class society with business leaders/governments at the top and workers at the bottom

stalinism - class society with party apparatchiks at the top and workers at the bottom
18:25 November 4, 2012 by ChrisRea
If I am to sack 20% of my department and make the rest of 80% do the extra work needed without asking for a raise, they better give me perks like 3 days in a lavish hotel.
18:35 November 4, 2012 by zeddriver
@melbournite

There you go.

And which is the easiest one to deal with?

At least with the Bank or any other business. If I feel they are lacking in morals and are cheating me as a customer. I can take my money and put it elsewhere or spend it at a company of my choosing.

Governments of all sorts whether it be a King/elected official/dictator demand through laws and pain of jail or death that you must do business with them. When the government is corrupt. Which they all are. You really can't do much about it. Even with elections, It ends up being just like the Who's song lyrics. Meet the new boss, Same as the old boss.
18:53 November 4, 2012 by melbournite
@zeddriver all the banks are essentially the same. they gamble your money - if its a gain they keep it for themselves. If its a loss, they pass it on to you. when they screw up big time, it sure aint the ones at the top who have to pay. If you try and buck the system, well there's riot cops and jails to enforce obedience
19:41 November 4, 2012 by Berlin fuer alles
At least in Greece they rioted and caused some mayhem. What will the Germans do? Like good little clones they will keep voting for Dr. Merkyl and Mr. Hyde and mumble to themselves and take their unhappines out on each other or the 'Auslander" taking their job or tax money to be bailed out.

DDDs keep your head buried in the sand and maybe this will all just go away. DREAM ON!
20:21 November 4, 2012 by zeddriver
@melbournite

All banks are not the same. I don't use a bank. I use a credit union. It operates like a bank. But is fully owned by the folks who have their money in it. If someone at the top screws up. The membership/customers can and do vote them out.

My main point was that if you don't want your money in or do business with a bank. You do have a choice. I you don't want to do business with the government. You go to prison. That my friend is a huge difference. Therefore I still maintain. That the shrewdest private business is nowhere near as bad as a shrewd and corrupt government.
02:53 November 5, 2012 by wood artist
Well, you certainly can't expect Important People to discussion Serious Issues in some dive. I mean how could a Very Important Person ever make Important Decisions while they're sitting in a common chair at a common table in a basic room? Just think of the stress they'd be under.

/sarcasm

As a Very Important Person said when arriving at a Rmoney fund raiser in upstate New York, "isn't there a VIP entrance or something?"

wa
17:41 November 14, 2012 by ambar
These rats of bundesbank enjoy big parties while thousands of people around Europe are forced to leave their homes because of no jobs.They are destroying european economies following the extreme capitalism. This is not Europe of people, this is Europe of bloody money.
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