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Media Release
Frankfurt am Main, September 16, 2025
Deutsche Bank (XETRA: DBKGn.DB / NYSE: DB) today announces the completion of its € 750 million share repurchase program launched on April 1, 2025. The bank will commence a further share repurchase program tomorrow, September 17, 2025, having received the necessary supervisory approvals. The bank anticipates completing this program, with a volume of up to € 250 million, by November 19, 2025.
Including this further program, the bank’s total capital distributions to shareholders in 2025 will amount to approximately € 2.3 billion, an increase of approximately 50% over 2024, including share repurchases of around € 1.0 billion from the two aforementioned programs and 2024 dividends of € 1.3 billion, or € 0.68 per share, paid in May 2025. Cumulative capital distributions to shareholders since 2022 are expected to reach approximately € 5.6 billion by the end of 2025.
Deutsche Bank reaffirms its commitment to outperform its total distribution goal of € 8 billion in respect of the financial years 2021-2025, including distributions in respect of 2025 paid in 2026.
Further details of Deutsche Bank’s completed share repurchase program can be found here; information on the new share repurchase program can be found on the bank’s Investor Relations page.
About Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank provides retail and private banking, corporate and transaction banking, lending, asset and wealth management products and services as well as focused investment banking to private individuals, small and medium-sized companies, corporations, governments and institutional investors. Deutsche Bank is the leading bank in Germany with strong European roots and a global network.
Forward-looking statements
This release contains forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are statements that are not historical facts; they include statements about our beliefs and expectations and the assumptions underlying them. These statements are based on plans, estimates and projections as they are currently available to the management of Deutsche Bank. Forward-looking statements therefore speak only as of the date they are made, and we undertake no obligation to update publicly any of them in light of new information or future events.
By their very nature, forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. A number of important factors could therefore cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement.
Such factors include the conditions in the financial markets in Germany, in Europe, in the United States and elsewhere from which we derive a substantial portion of our revenues and in which we hold a substantial portion of our assets, the development of asset prices and market volatility, potential defaults of borrowers or trading counterparties, the implementation of our strategic initiatives, the reliability of our risk management policies, procedures and methods, and other risks referenced in our filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Such factors are described in detail in our SEC Form 20-F of March 13, 2025 under the heading “Risk Factors”. Copies of this document are readily available upon request or can be downloaded from www.db.com/ir
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