At Deutsche Bank, Karofsky reports to Gahan and Ralph Reynolds , Deutsche Bank's head of global cash equities, program trading and prime services.

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One of the stories pairs writer Neil Gaiman, famous for "The Sandman" series, with Gahan Wilson, noted for his cartoons in the New Yorker and Playboy.

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The hiring of the Morgan Stanley group is "the strongest sign of our determination to continue investing in our U.S. securities platform, " said Thomas Gahan , Deutsche Bank's head of corporate and investment banking in the Americas and the head of its Deutsche Bank Securities division.

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