Case Study of Deutsch Bank (Doc)

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Table of Contents
Case Study of Deutsch Bank............................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Purpose of study.....................................................................................................................1
Structure of case Study...........................................................................................................1
CONTEXT.......................................................................................................................................2
CASE STUDY ANALYSIS............................................................................................................4
1. Corporate Governance issue within the company..............................................................4
The ethical issue.....................................................................................................................6
Corporate Social Responsibility.............................................................................................7
Board Effectiveness issue.......................................................................................................8
2: Literature review................................................................................................................8
Legal elements......................................................................................................................10
3: Response of the company to the issues............................................................................10
4: Possibility of similar events happening in the UK. .........................................................11
5: General lessons learned from the case.............................................................................11
6: Investment decision..........................................................................................................12
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................14

Case Study of Deutsch Bank
INTRODUCTION
Purpose of study
Deustche Bank AG is a German bank and which is engaged in the retail banking as well
as financial services business. It is a reputed Bank, and current having its operations in around 58
Countries. Because of the size of operations, The bank has faced certain issues related to the
frauds that has taken place within the bank in the recent past (Azim, 2012). The company's image
has been tarnished due to these issue and management has shown a major concerned over it and
have tried to overcome the same by making policies as well as procedures in this regard. The
Project Mainly focuses the scandals that has taken place within the company and how the same
has been addressed by the company through taking corrective action. Managers are making
necessary attempts to overcome the issue of these scandals and the effects on company's image
that has taken place over period of time. The project will also be concentrating on various
effective ways that will help company in overcoming these issues and stable their overall market
position over period of time.
Importance of case
Deustche Bank has played a very crucial role in the overall development of banking
sector and growth of financial services all over Europe, the bank is present in around 58
countries covering most of the Europe and parts of Asia as well. The company is facing various
issues related to its business and thus it is essential to make sure to bring the organisation out of
this mess of scandal, which has put a dent on the organisation as well as its reputation in the
recent past. The organisation shall take necessary steps as well as corrective actions to overcome
this issue of scandals over the company.
Structure of case Study
The case study will try to address various issues related to the banking system and effects
of scandals on the banking system (Bainbridge, 2012). The structure will try to address Problem
1: What were the main corporate governance issues within this case? Problem 2:What does the
theoretical, academic, professional or legal literature/regulation say on these issues? Were such
events or features of case consistent with or in contrast to the theoretical, academic, professional
or legal literature/regulation? Problem 3: If the company/organisation addressed these issues,
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