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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Bankers Trust was
a historic American banking organization. The bank merged with Alex.
Brown & Sons before being acquired by Deutsche Bank in 1998. Bankers
Trust was an entity originally set up when banks could not perform trust
company services. A consortium of banks all invested in a new trust
company, which was called Bankers Trust, so that they could refer
clients to that company knowing that Bankers Trust would not try and
poach their customers.