Company: ADZCF
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form Type: 6-K
Source: 0001159508-25-000028
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Company: DEUTSCHE BANK AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form: 6-K
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<div align='center'>**UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
Form 6-K

REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER
PURSUANT TO RULE 13 a -16 OR 15 d -16
UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the month of April 2025

Commission File Number 1-15242

DEUTSCHE BANK CORPORATION
(Translation of Registrant’s Name Into English)

Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft
Taunusanlage 12
60325 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
(Address of Principal Executive Office)**</div>

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F: Form 20-F ☒ Form 40-F ☐

Explanatory note and Exhibits

This Report on Form 6-K contains the following exhibits. This Report on Form 6-K and the exhibits hereto are hereby incorporated by reference into Deutsche Bank’s Registration Statement No. 333-278331. For the avoidance of doubt, the section of the Earnings Report (contained in Exhibit 99.1) entitled “Risks and Opportunities” is intended to supplement, but not replace, the section “Risk Factors” of Deutsche Bank’s 2024 Annual Report on Form 20-F.

Exhibit 99.1: Deutsche Bank AG’s Earnings Report as of March 31, 2025 (IASB IFRS).

Exhibit 99.2: Capitalization table of Deutsche Bank AG as of March 31, 2025 (IASB IFRS).

For non-U.S. purposes, Deutsche Bank publishes its Earnings Report and other financial reporting documents setting forth results prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) as endorsed by the European Union, including application of fair value hedge accounting for portfolio hedges of interest rate risk (fair value macro hedges) in accordance with the EU carve out version of IAS 39 (“EU IFRS”, using the “EU carve out”). Fair value hedge accounting under the EU carve out is employed to minimize the accounting exposure to both positive and negative moves in interest rates in each tenor bucket thereby reducing the volatility of reported revenue from Treasury activities.

For U.S. reporting purposes, Deutsche Bank also publishes its Earnings Report prepared in accordance with IFRS as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board (IAS