Deutsche Bank | Staff had access to emails weeks after being fired

Earlier this month Deutsche Bank became the centre of a media furore over the treatment of its 18,000 global equities trading employees facing redundancy.

The bank garnered much criticism for not only informing employees that they were being made redundant on a Sunday night, but for cancelling employee passes and refusing access to the building on the following Monday.

Now, it has been revealed that many of the employees that were made redundant a few weeks ago have maintained access to the company’s internal email system for a number of weeks after leaving Deutsche Bank – potentially compromising GDPR legislation and leaving both employee and customer information at risk.

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Bloomberg reported that the bank has reviewed almost all of the communication and found no evidence of “price-sensitive information being communicated or of any other wrongdoing,” a Spokesman for the lender in Frankfurt said in a statement. Access to trading systems was immediately turned off when the employees were let go, he explained.