Company: ADZCF
Filing Date: 2025-03-13
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001159508-25-000020
Chunk: 552

Company: DEUTSCHE BANK AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Filing Date: 2025-03-13
Form: 20-F
Chunk 552
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|               |     | Severance                     |     | Individual specification          |     | Regulatory requirement for certain employees to defer severance payments |
|               |     | Annual Award – Upfront        |     | Vesting immediately at grant3     |     | Regulated employees                                                      |
| 2017-20184    |     | Annual Award                  |     | 1/4: 12 months1                   |     | Select employees as                                                      |
|               |     |                               |     | 1/4: 24 months1                   |     | annual performance-based                                                 |
|               |     |                               |     | 1/4: 36 months1                   |     | compensation                                                             |
|               |     |                               |     | 1/4: 48 months1                   |     |                                                                          |
|               |     |                               |     | Or cliff vesting after 54 months1 |     | Members of Senior Leadership Cadre                                       |
|               |     | Severance                     |     | Individual specification          |     | Regulatory requirement for certain employees to defer severance payments |
|               |     | Retention/New Hire/Off-Cycle  |     | Individual specification          |     | Select employees to attract and retain the best talent                   |

1 For InstVV-regulated employees (and Senior Management) a further retention period of twelve months applies (six months for awards granted from 2017-2018)

2 For grant year 2019 divisions were called CIB, for grant years 2020 and 2021 CIB is split into CB/IB/CRU

3 Share delivery takes place after a further retention period of twelve months

4 Annual and Retention/New Hire awards include grants made under the Restricted Share Plan from 2018-2024

5 Off-Cycle awards granted up to 2020.

Furthermore, the Group offers a broad-based employee share ownership plan entitled Global Share Purchase Plan. The Global Share Purchase Plan offers employees in specific countries the opportunity to purchase Deutsche Bank shares in monthly installments over one year. At the end of the purchase cycle, the Group matches the acquired stock in a ratio of one to one up to a maximum of ten free shares, provided that the employee remains at Deutsche Bank Group for another year. In total, 10,978 staff from 20 countries enrolled in the cycle that began in November 2024.

The Group has other local share-based compensation plans, none of which, individually or in the aggregate, are material to the