KfW executives Detlef Leinberger and Peter Fleischer have been suspended on full salary following the German state bank's transfer of 350 million ($511 million) last week in a failed swap deal with Lehman Brothers.
The transfer occured after Lehman announced that it faced bankruptcy.
In a statement, the bank said that it has hired a law firm to examine whether the events that have been identified call for appropriate legal consequences against its two board members who failed to prevent the transfer.