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The banker who beat Wall Street

rguably one of the most brilliant investment bankers of his generation, Anshu Jain, who has died of cancer aged 59, spearheaded Deutsche Bank’s “conquest of Wall Street”, says the Financial Times. It was “a wildly successful mission” that transformed the ultraconservative German lender into a trading powerhouse. But it “ended in an existential crisis that haunted the bank for years”. Indian-born Jain, a “towering

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