German multinational investment bank and financial services company founded in Berlin in 1870 — which financed German industrialization, operated through the Nazi era, and became a major global investment bank in the 1990s before declining through a series of scandals and restructurings.
Represents the European universal bank model — combining commercial banking, investment banking, and asset management — and its history mirrors German economic history from industrialization through reunification.
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