Big Banker Brother: Deutsche Bank Eavesdropping On Employees With Surveillance App Big Banker Brother: Deutsche Bank Eavesdropping On Employees With Surveillance App After a series of scandals - including 1MDB , fired managers who expensed strip club receipts or texted colleagues pictures of SM sessions , and of course - the $150 million fine they paid " for significant compliance failures " in regards to Jeffrey Epstein - Deutsche Bank has now gone full Big Brother on its employees as government pressure to do so intensifies. According to the Financial Times , Germany''s largest lender has started requiring certain bankers to download and install mobile surveillance app Movius , which allows compliance staff to monitor calls, text messages and WhatsApp conversations , according to people familiar with the matter. Movius has partnerships with various telecoms, such as Spring, Telstra, Telefónica and Blackberry, and was used by several financial institutions during the pandemic in order to monitor employees working from home, particularly those in heavily regulated roles such as trading.