I think you’re correct - I worked there for about 5 years in the infrastructure engineering department. We had very rigorous processes around the underlying pl

I think you’re correct - I worked there for about 5 years in the infrastructure engineering department. We had very rigorous processes around the underlying platform and keeping the operating systems and hardware up to date. They’re talking about the “banking” operating systems. Also note that Deutsche Bank (like many global financial institutions) is not really a single company, but more like 10 different companies all operating under one umbrella. It’s all very well pointing at a company like Goldman and saying “look, they do IT well” when they don’t have the same range of commercial and consumer businesses as part of their company. If you’re just an investment bank, life is a bit simpler. On a more general note I feel like in our industry there’s a tendency towards “perfection worship” where people think there’s some kind of immortal “perfect solution” that a company needs and anything less than that is terrible and must be chastised. This is egoistical and forgets that IT and computing exists to enable companies and not the other way round. The world does not do computing for computing’s sake. Company change can be almost constant, changing systems to keep up is hard and expensive, being able to live with imperfection is critical to commercial success.