The chief executive of Germany's largest banking group and one of the world's top executives has found himself in a financial situation so difficult that he had to borrow from his own driver.
Christian Seifeng, chief executive of Deutsche Bank, Germany's largest banking group, admitted that he had borrowed a short amount of money from his driver after discovering he did not have enough cash to spend urgent matters while attending an event in Düsseldorf on Monday evening.
Asked how much money he had in his pocket at the moment, he said, "I had to borrow from my driver because I didn't have any cash at that moment," adding that he had a very short-term debt. "Fortunately, I had the money" to pay it off.
In an evening conference organized by the German newspaper "Rheinische Post", he highlighted his financial situation, pointing out that his family members perform about 95% of their financial and commercial transactions via the Internet or mobile phone, while still dealing with traditional means and still dealing mainly with real branches For banks.