Anshu Jain

During Jain's tenure as co-CEO, Deutsche Bank was faced with a variety of regulatory investigations into and litigation concerning its 21st-century activities, many of them regarding divisions which Jain had had broad oversight for at the time and which CEO Ackermann had pressured to deliver increasingly outsized profits.

Many of these investigations resulted in steep fines.

Anshuman Jain (7 January 1963 – 12 August 2022) was an Indian-born British business executive.

Jain was born on 7 January 1963 in Jaipur, India, and his father was a career civil servant who served in the Indian Audit and Accounts Service.

He was raised in the Jain religion and was a vegetarian.

He studied at Shri Ram College of Commerce at the University of Delhi and earned Bachelor of Arts in economics in 1983.

He then moved to the U.S. at the age of 19, and in 1985 he received an Master of Business Administration in finance from the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he was a member of Beta Gamma Sigma.

At the university, he studied with Thomas Schneeweis, an expert in alternative investments such as futures, options, and derivatives.

After receiving his MBA, Jain began his career on Wall Street.

He was hired as an analyst in derivatives research at Kidder, Peabody & Co., where he worked from 1985 to 1988.

In 1988, he moved to Merrill Lynch.

He spent seven years there, setting up and running its global hedge fund coverage group, selling interest-rate swaps and other financial products to hedge funds.

At the company he met Edson Mitchell, a talented investment banker who became his mentor.

In 1995, Deutsche Bank hired Jain's mentor Edson Mitchell away from Merrill Lynch and tasked him with creating a world-class investment bank division in London.

Mitchell brought Jain with him, and hired hundreds of Merrill Lynch investment bankers to accompany them to London.

Jain joined Deutsche Bank in June 1995 to head a combined group which marketed fixed-income derivatives to large investors and hedge funds.

In February 1997, he was named head of Deutsche Bank's newly formed Global Institutional Client Group, and expanded fixed income into foreign exchange and credit derivatives.

In mid-2000, he became head of global capital markets, sales, over-the-counter derivatives, global credit derivatives, and emerging markets.

When Mitchell died in a plane crash in December 2000, Jain succeeded him as head of Global Markets in early 2001.

Jain was noted as having helped build Deutsche Bank into a fixed-income powerhouse, more than doubling debt sales and trading revenue between 2000 and 2009, and for building Deutsche Bank into a global investment bank that rivalled Wall Street's giant firms.

He had already been appointed to Deutsche Bank's 12-member Group Executive Committee, newly created by Ackermann, in 2002, and to its Management Board (Vorstand) in 2009.

In September 2004, he was appointed co-head of the Corporate and Investment Bank, together with Michael Cohrs; Jain's responsibility was for the equities trading division and integrating it with the fixed-income division he already headed.

This investment bank division was highly profitable under his leadership and produced the lion's share of Deutsche Bank's profits.

Cohrs retired in 2010, and Jain became head of the entire Corporate and Investment Bank, overseeing global sales and trading operations that included bonds, commodities, emerging markets, equities, foreign exchange, money markets, credit derivatives, and interest-rate trading.

This put Jain in charge of the unit that generated more than 80% of Deutsche Bank's profit, which strengthened his position as a probable successor to CEO Josef Ackermann, even though Jain was based in London and spoke no German.

He previously served as the Global co-CEO and co-Chairman of Deutsche Bank from June 2012 until July 2015.

Jain was also a member of Deutsche Bank's Management Board.

He was previously head of its Corporate and Investment Bank, globally responsible for Deutsche Bank's corporate finance, sales and trading, and transaction banking business.

In July 2011, Jain was appointed co-CEO of Deutsche Bank, along with native German Jürgen Fitschen, effective 1 June 2012.

During their years of co-leadership, Fitschen handled Deutsche Bank's retail bank and German affairs, and also handled the Deutsche Bank's relations with the Berlin government and other German stakeholders.

Jain led the investment bank plus asset and wealth management, and was the face of Deutsche Bank internationally.

Jain combined the bank's asset management and wealth management divisions into a single unit, and expanded it to be a global competitor closer in size to Deutsche Bank's other major units.

He put Michele Faissola in charge of the unit, and to assist expansion had it do cross-business with Deutsche Bank's investment banking division.

In March 2013, Deutsche Bank restated its 2012 earnings report due to litigation costs, and Jain's and Fitschen's compensation for 2012 was cut to €4.8 million ($6.2 million) each.

Deutsche Bank had already paid nearly $1 billion in 2013 in a European Commission antitrust investigation into Libor; the 2015 penalty brought its total Libor fines to $3.5 billion.

Subsequent regulatory fines included $2.5 billion in penalties in April 2015 to four regulators in the U.S. and UK over claims that Deutsche Bank traders had manipulated key interest-rate benchmarks such as the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor) between 2005 and 2011.

Jain remained a consultant to the bank until January 2016.

From 2017 to 2022, he was the president of the American financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald.

He was a cousin of Ajit Jain, who since 2018 has been vice chairman of insurance operations for Berkshire Hathaway.

When he was six, Jain moved with his father to New Delhi, and attended Delhi Public School, Mathura Road.