Banks in the City of London are facing calls to overhaul the working culture for younger staff following the death of a 21-year-old intern at Bank of America.
Moritz Erhardt, an intern at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in London was found dead last week in his shower at his accommodation in east London, it emerged yesterday.
A Bank of America spokesman confirmed that the German business studies undergraduate had died, but said the bank had not yet been made aware of the cause of his death. He declined to comment on online reports claiming Mr Erhardt’s death was due to an epileptic fit that followed three nights of working 72 hours in a row.