How US Regulators May Be Creating the Deutsche Bank Panic

Deutsche Bank finds itself in the center of a panic, and some analysts are pointing fingers at U.S. regulators.

Germany's biggest bank fell under fresh scrutiny beginning on Sept. 16 when it surfaced that the U.S. Department of Justice was demanding it pay a $14 billion fine for its mortgage lending activities during the housing bubble. Shares of Germany's biggest bank plunged on Thursday on reports that a handful of its big hedge fund clients were limiting their exposure to Deutsche Bank, though the bank hascharacterized those media reports as "unjustified concerns."