Departed Deutsche Bank CEO Not Sitting At Home Crying About The Germans

Anshu Jain has moved on and fast.
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It's possible Anshu Jain's former co-CEO Jürgen Fitschen is sitting by the phone, wishing, and hoping, and thinking and praying that his former employer comes to its senses and takes him back. But Jain? He moved on weeks ago.

Anshu Jain, the former co-CEO of Deutsche Bank who worked his last day at the bank on June 30, is in talks with Japanese tech lender SoftBank for a still-undefined executive-level position, The Post has learned. Jain has been in talks with SoftBank President and COO Nikesh Arora for about a month, according to a person directly familiar with the talks...While it’s unclear what Jain’s position would be, Arora opined on Jain’s possible future in a June 11 interview with India’s Economic Times...In a move that surprised few on Wall Street, Deutsche Bank announced on June 7 that it would replace Jain and his counterpart Jürgen Fitschen with John Cryan.

Ex-Deutsche CEO eyes leadership role at SoftBank [NYP]

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