Businesses cracking under pressure?

Whether high or low growth environments, greed is always at play. Our largest corporations are not immune:

The $14bn Deutsche Bank fine – all you need to know | Business | The Guardian: "Shares in Deutsche Bank, Germany’s largest bank, took a dive after news that the institution faces a $14bn (£10.5bn) charge over mis-selling mortgage securities in the US."
Deutsche Bank’s $10-Billion Scandal - The New Yorker: "two strategists in the research department of Deutsche Bank in London, published a report, “Dark Matter,” which described the vast unrecorded transfer of money among nations...." of the eighteen billion dollars that the researchers had estimated was flowing into the U.K. each year, about twenty per cent had arrived there as the result of trades made at their own bank. "

Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf Resigns Amid Scandal : The Two-Way : NPR: "The chairman and chief executive of Wells Fargo & Co., John Stumpf, has resigned effective immediately in the aftermath of a scandal over the bank's past practice of secretly selling services to unsuspecting customers."

Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 Is Officially Banned From Planes: Tell Us Your Stories: "As of yesterday, no one is allowed to bring a Samsung Galaxy Note 7 onto a flight in the United States because they can combust. If you’re traveling and haven’t had a chance to exchange your phone yet, this is going to be a big pain in your ass." $5B cost


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