A senior Deutsche Bank regulatory lawyer, Calogero Gambino, has died of a suicide in New York, according to New York City officials and others familiar with the circumstances of his death.

Gambino, 41 years old, was an associate general counsel, a managing director and an 11-year veteran of the German bank. He was found on the morning of October 20 hanging by the neck from a stairway banister, the New York Police Department said. The man, who was found by his wife, was pronounced dead by medics, and the death is being described by police as a suicide. New York City Office of chief medical examiner spokeswoman Julie Bolcer said the cause of death is hanging and manner of death is suicide.