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Meike Schreiber, Frankfurt
Nine million euros – that’s not much in the Frankfurt banking scene at first. Here one counts in billions. But when it comes to investing in a start-up company with an opaque business model, then nine million is suddenly a decent sum. And that’s exactly how much the asset manager DWS, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bank and even on the stock exchange, has invested in the German-British fintech Arabesque. The only question is: why?