Bad Banks / Episode List

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This episode list contains all episodes of the German - Luxembourg television series Bad Banks . The list is sorted by the official episode numbering. The television series currently comprises two seasons with 6 episodes each.

season 1

No.
( total ) 		No.
( St. ) 		Original title First publication D Director script
1 1 The termination February 21, 2018 Christian Schwochow Oliver Kienle , Jana Burbach and Jan Galli
The 25-year-old investment banker Jana Liekam works as a structurer at the investment bank “Crédit International Financial Group” (Crédit International for short) in Luxembourg . She is the assistant to Luc Jacoby, the son of the CEO of Crédit International, Ties Jacoby. During an appointment with a potential investor , Jana takes on Luc's negotiation for a financial product she has structured , a cat bond .

The arrogant Luc resents her and Jana is fired when she returns. Before she can be escorted out, Jana confronts the investment manager and her department head, Christelle Leblanc, who secretly helps her and gives Jana a job at "Deutsche Global Invest" in Frankfurt . Investment boss Gabriel Fenger hires her on a trial basis and gives her a team so that she can replicate her former Crédit International product at Deutsche Global Invest and sell it to Crédit International customers ("closed", a certain number of investors) finds). With the help of Christelle and by skillfully influencing Luc's last potential customer, Jana can achieve her goal.

Shortly before this becomes known, Gabriel wants to fire her. During the dismissal meeting, Adam Pohl, one of her team members, bursts into the office and announces that all customers are leaving Crédit International and want to buy the Deutsche Global Invest product. Gabriel congratulates Jana on her new position. Christelle appears at Jana's home because she wants her and Jana to work together in the future.

2 2 Follow the junk February 21, 2018 Christian Schwochow Oliver Kienle, Jana Burbach and Jan Galli
Christelle Leblanc, Head of Investment at Crédit International, suspects that Deutsche Global Invest is manipulating its balance sheet. She provides Jana with inside information about the billions in funding of the urban development project “ Leipzig 2025”, but in return demands information from Jana about the falsification of the balance sheet at Deutsche Global Invest. Jana has a remorse and refuses Christelle.

When Gabriel wants to know from Jana which deals she is planning next, she now presents him the early Leipzig 2025 financing. Jana's team and especially Thao Hoang do not support them in working out the deal. Christelle has found out that Jana is now carrying out the financing, and in return demands the inside information. Under time pressure, Gabriel Fenger signs contracts under which toxic securities with the name “Quaestus” are sold to a secret subsidiary of Deutsche Global Invest called “Silver Mountain Hedge Fund”. These no longer appear on the bank's balance sheet.

Jana goes out to party with Thao and some colleagues, trying to find out more about Quaestus. She manages to get Thao on her side, and the team works together on financing for Leipzig. Jana presented the financing to the Mayor of Leipzig, Peter Schultheiss, and agreed, against Gabriel Fenger's order, to complete the offer within four weeks. Gabriel Fenger finds out that he was betrayed by Quirin Sydow and Robert Khano when he signed the sale of Quaestus.

At the annual general meeting, contrary to the order of the CEO of Deutsche Global Invest, Robert Khano, Gabriel speaks about a riskier strategy in investment banking. The shareholders like this strategy and the share price is rising. Christelle wants to see Jana, but Jana collapses shortly before Christelle's hotel room.

3 3 The man from London February 22, 2018 Christian Schwochow Oliver Kienle, Jana Burbach and Jan Galli
Jana tells Christelle about the falsification of the balance sheet at Deutsche Global Invest through the sale of Quaestus to a secret subsidiary (= a bad bank ). Jana heads the Leipzig 2025 project team, which has to be closed in just four weeks. All team members, including Thao and Adam, are working hard on the project.

Luc drowns his frustration in alcohol and makes an appointment with the bartender Grazyna. The henchmen of Christelle traveled to Bahrain to the company headquarters to examine the Silver Mountain hedge funds. He discovers that it is a mailbox company , which he immediately tells Christelle. Jana begins to question Christelle's interest in falsifying the balance sheet. Peter Schultheiß, the mayor of Leipzig, is increasingly suffering from his disease ( lymph node cancer ). His wife would like him to allow himself more rest, but Schultheiss wants to close Leipzig as soon as possible in 2025 in order to set a monument for himself.

An old friend of Adam, who is now a successful hedge fund manager, blackmailed Adam with revealing party pictures for better conditions for the loans from Leipzig 2025. Fenger forbids preferential treatment, whereupon the hedge fund manager sends the pictures to Adam's wife, which Adam then does throws out of the shared apartment and ends the relationship.

Jana steals a colleague's smartphone and sends the certificate of sale of Quaestus to Silver Mountain to her email account.

Christelle contacts Felix Bender from UK Royal Fin and convinces him to buy the risk tranche from Leipzig 2025. Felix Bender, Jana and Adam visit a strip club . Jana lets Adam mix chili, to which he is allergic, into a shot, leaves him alone and goes to a gay club with Felix Bender, who is hiding his homosexuality . On the way back Jana sees Ties Jacoby and Robert Khano saying goodbye after a meeting and suspects that Deutsche Global Invest and Crédit International are planning a merger.

4th 4th Old debts February 22, 2018 Christian Schwochow Oliver Kienle, Jana Burbach and Jan Galli
After Adam was thrown out of the shared apartment by his girlfriend, he threatens Jana in the office. Fenger notices this and has Adam kicked out of Deutsche Global Invest.

Christelle asks Jana to give her the Quaestus sales documents. Jana suspects that Crédit International and Deutsche Global Invest want to merge . However, Christelle and Fenger would compete for the same post as investment chief after the merger. Jana assumes that Christelle wants to discredit Fenger by discovering the falsification of the balance sheet, which he unknowingly approved , so that she can become the new investment boss. Jana refuses to give Christelle the documents because publication would do much more damage than just discredit Fenger. Jana has sympathies for Fenger.

Christelle's henchman calls the Silver Mountain Hedge Fund and asks very directly whether Silver Mountain is a subsidiary of Deutsche Global Invest. When Sydow, the CFO of Deutsche Global Invest, heard about it, he was very worried because it seemed that someone knew about the falsification of the balance sheet.

Fenger invites Jana into his apartment and tries to kiss her, but Jana does not allow it.

Quirin Sydow finds out that it was Jana who stole the documents from Quaestus. He confronts Fenger. He refuses to fire Jana because she is his best colleague. Fenger asks Jana what she did. She tells him that Christelle wants the information from her and that Deutsche Global Invest and Crédit International are preparing a merger.

Luc reveals to Jana that it wasn't him who caused her to resign. Jana suspects that it must be Christelle who initiated her termination in order to smuggle her from Crédit International to Deutsche Global Invest.

Over dinner, Sydow is asked by Peter Richard, an employee of the German financial regulator , to make an appointment regarding irregularities in financial transactions. Jana asks Luc for his help so that she can successfully complete the Leipzig 2025 project.

Jana drives to Christelle's home and asks her why she was fired. Christelle tells Jana that she had her fired so that she could start at Deutsche Global Invest and collect reliable material about Fenger. Christelle is entitled to any means to keep the position of investment director after the merger. After the conversation it turns out that Jana secretly filmed the whole conversation with Christelle and can blackmail her with the recordings . Christelle plans with her henchman to have Jana killed , but he can dissuade Christelle from this idea.

5 5 The hardest currency February 22, 2018 Christian Schwochow Oliver Kienle, Jana Burbach and Jan Galli
Christelle meets with Ties Jacoby. You talk about the planned merger of Crédit International and Deutsche Global Invest. Christelle informs him that the balance sheets of Deutsche Global Invest are falsified. Ties doubts her allegations because Christelle cannot prove them yet because Jana has not yet given her the evidence.

Jana and her team are working flat out on the closing of Leipzig in 2025. Luc was also able to bring her to her team at Deutsche Global Invest, but he is not very motivated. Jana confronts Luc about why he doesn't want to work on the project. Luc tells her that he learned from his father that mainly he and Jana, but also the rest of the Leipzig team, should be fired after the closing. Jana tells him that she still wants to successfully complete the project and can convince Luc to work enthusiastically.

Fenger speaks with Khano, CEO of Deutsche Global Invest, about the merger. Fenger reveals his disappointment with the merger negotiations that are going on behind his back. Khano explains to him that in ten years all banks in Europe will have merged and they prefer to merge with a solid bank now rather than a sick one in the future. He calls on Fenger to support the merger 100 percent and to dismiss Jana and Luc after its successful conclusion.

Peter Schultheiss is increasingly suffering from his illness. Jana announces her idea to Adam to publish the receipts about Quaestus via a whistleblowing platform and to profit from the resulting price loss through insider trading . The two fly to London to see Felix. He will take the short positions through his hedge fund , from which Jana and Adam will also benefit.

Peter Richard from the German financial regulator asks Sydow again to give him documents about the Quaestus transaction. Richard wants to pick up the documents from Sydow's home, but he tries to bribe him with an escort lady . Richard refuses and drives away indignant. Before that, however, Sydow asks him where the tip on Quaestus came from.

Sydow shows up at Jana's house and aggressively asks her to say why she tried to download documents from the data center. She fakes a nervous breakdown through a cunning act and Sydow leaves. Jana and her team can successfully close Leipzig 2025 just under one day before the deadline .

Felix takes the short position with his hedge fund, while Jana quits Deutsche Global Invest. She uploads Quaestus' certificates to a whistleblowing platform.

Jana wants to meet Adam, but is brutally attacked and robbed on the way there. Jana's home was also broken into. While Jana's cell phone was stolen during the robbery, several USB sticks are missing in the apartment. The recordings made by Jana von Christelle were contained on the mobile phone and the USB sticks.

The leaked documents are made public. All buyers jump from the loans to finance Leipzig 2025. One fears a bankruptcy of Deutsche Global Invest.

6th 6th The lion's den February 22, 2018 Christian Schwochow Oliver Kienle, Jana Burbach and Jan Galli
The share of the Deutsche Global Invest lose massively in value. If Deutsche Global Invest went bankrupt, up to 14 more of the world's most important financial institutions would be threatened with bankruptcy. Sydow plans due to the crisis of suicide to commit. Shortly before he can do this, however, Peter Richard from the financial supervisor rings the doorbell at his front door.

It turns out that Deutsche Global Invest is actually insolvent and that Germany is facing a new financial crisis . The video recordings of Jana's conversation with Christelle were either on the stolen cell phone or were deleted from the cloud. Jana has hidden a USB stick with the video in the headquarters of Deutsche Global Invest. With Luc's help, Jana arrives at the headquarters and looks for her USB stick, but it is no longer there.

The German Federal Finance Minister Volker Lemgo wants to summon the boards of Crédit International and Deutsche Global Invest to negotiate a forced merger. The Lord Mayor of Leipzig, Peter Schultheiß, disappears without a trace after a financing stop at Leipzig in 2025. Adam and Jana fly to London to see Felix Bender. His hedge fund earned around 100 million euros from the loss in the price of Deutsche Global Invest shares. Jana and Adam earned two million euros each from insider trading. The money is in a bank account in the Virgin Islands .

Sydow lets Fenger come to his home for a chat. Sydow is drunk and provokes Fenger with derogatory remarks about a deceased employee and lover. In a fit of anger, Fenger brutally beats Sydow. Jana meets Fenger, who is sitting drunk on a park bench. She takes him home with her and the two sleep together.

Fenger is questioned by the police why he beat up Sydow. Fenger says that he did it because of a deceased colleague, but he is alleged to have beaten Sydow for manipulating the balance sheet. Sydow, on the other hand, says that Fenger forced him to carry out the sale of Quaestus. Christelle is set to become the new investment director after the merger. When Fenger got back to his apartment, he called Sydow drunk that evening and threatened to kill him as soon as he was released from prison.

Jana, Adam and Thao meet privately. The three make an agreement that they always want to remain loyal to each other. Adam and Jana reveal insider trading to Thao.

The board members of Crédit International and Deutsche Global Invest meet with the finance minister. Lemgo does not want to agree to the merger of Crédit International and Deutsche Global Invest until Crédit International buys Deutsche Global Invest on the old terms. Christelle, on the other hand, demands support for the now economically unprofitable merger through state subsidies and speculates on the finance minister's concession the longer the negotiations last. After Lemgo seemed more and more exhausted and desperate during the night of the meeting, he announced the successful negotiation of the merger in a press conference the next morning. No further details of the merger will be announced.

Meanwhile, Fenger is arrested the same morning and Christelle moves into her new office. There Jana visits her to apply to the newly merged company. However, Jana demands that her old team, including Adam, Thao and Luc, be hired again. Jana offers Christelle to help her get on the board.

Adam, Jana and Thao meet and discuss the next steps. After getting her jobs back, they want to take advantage of Christelle for as long as possible and then see that she goes to jail .

Peter Schultheiß and his wife travel through Italy with their motorhome. During a break at a kiosk, Schultheiß collapses and presumably dies.

season 2

No.
( total ) 		No.
( St. ) 		Original title First publication D Director script
7th 1 Beautiful new world January 30, 2020 Christian Zübert Oliver Kienle
The financial crisis , during which Deutsche Global Invest (DGI) had to be rescued by the state, was six months ago. Jana, Adam and Thao move from their job at Deutsche Global Invest in Frankfurt to the start-up incubator at DGI in Berlin and establish a business relationship with the financial start-up “GreenWallet”.
8th 2 Bank Death (ZDF) / The New Opponent (Arte) January 30, 2020 Christian Zübert Oliver Kienle
9 3 collateral damage January 30, 2020 Christian Zübert Oliver Kienle
10 4th Today's winners January 30, 2020 Christian Zübert Oliver Kienle
11 5 Paranoia (ZDF) / darkness (Arte) January 30, 2020 Christian Zübert Oliver Kienle
12 6th Long live the Queen January 30, 2020 Christian Zübert Oliver Kienle

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Toxic Securities - bpb. In: bpb.de. Federal Agency for Civic Education , 2016, accessed on April 17, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Lexicon: What are Toxic Securities? - Economy. In: tagesspiegel.de. Der Tagesspiegel , January 25, 2009, accessed on April 17, 2018 .