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This is really a non sequitur. It's perfectly easy to imagine a large organization which has a disorganized and mismanaged mess for their IT infrastructure, but a great compliance and regulatory culture, or vice versa.

DB happens to have both a broken engineering culture and (at least historically) an even more broken culture of mis-selling and fraud, but there's nothing to say that one always engenders the other.

It's an article written by someone who doesn't know what an operating system is.
Much fresher scuttlebutt: https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/2022/05/eisler-capita...

Kannon isn't even mentioned in the older article.

Note that I am not claiming that Deutsche's IT department is no longer dysfunctional! Just nothing in TFA provides convincing evidence about the current state of affairs.

This is 5 year old scuttlebutt and even what's publicly known about DB's systems has superseded most of the details here.