Bad Banks: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

After being wrongly fired from Crédit International, a prestigious Investment bank in Luxembourg, Jana Liekam, a talented Young Investment banker, is offered a dream-job in Frankfurt Under the supervision of prominent Gabriel Fenger, Head of Investment Banking at Deutsche Invest. Suddenly, Jana not only had to give up her job, but also leave her boyfriend and his 5-year-old daughter behind. While Jana quickly manages to impress Fenger and his team with her passion and ambition, she realizes only too late that Christelle LeBlanc, her former boss at Crédit International, has secretly been pulling the strings and manipulating Jana to her own advantage. Soon, Jana finds herself torn between her new obligations and Leblanc's relentless blackmail…will she and her career survive this merciless powerplay?

Series details

• Title: Bad Banks
• Format: Scripted
• Language: German
• Genres: Drama, Thriller
• Premiere date: 2018-03-01
• Final broadcast date listed: 2020-02-07
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: ZDF
• Network country: Germany
• Typical episode runtime: 51 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 7.3/10
• TVMaze ID: 34797
• IMDb ID: tt6258718
• TVDB ID: 341330

Cast and credited roles

• Paula Beer — Jana Liekam
• Désirée Nosbusch — Christelle Leblanc
• Barry Atsma — Gabriel Fenger
• Marc Limpach — Luc Jacoby
• Albrecht Schuch — Adam Pohl
• Mai Duong Kiue — Thao Hoang
• Tobias Moretti — Quirin Sydow
• Jean Marc Barr — Robert Khano

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2018-03-01; final listed air date 2018-03-02; episode order: 6.
• Season 2: premiered 2020-02-06; final listed air date 2020-02-07; episode order: 6.

Source and licence

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