EX-4.7(a)





 Subordinated Indenture 

Exhibit 4.7(a) 
  

DEUTSCHE BANK AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, 

Issuer 
 AND 

WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, 

Trustee 
 AND 

DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, 

Paying Agent, Transfer Agent, Registrar and Authenticating Agent 

Amended and Restated Subordinated Indenture 

Dated as of August 3, 2021 












 CROSS REFERENCE SHEET1 

Provisions of U.S. Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, and Amended and Restated Subordinated Indenture to be dated as of August 3,
2021 among DEUTSCHE BANK AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee, and DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, as Paying Agent, Transfer Agent, Registrar and Authenticating Agent: 

 

			
	 Section of the Act
	  	 Section of Indenture

	 310(a)(1) and (2)
	  	 7.09

	 310(a)(3) and (4)
	  	 Inapplicable

	 310(b)
	  	 7.08

		  	 7.10(a)

		  	 7.10(b)

		  	 7.10(d)

	 310(c)
	  	 Inapplicable

	 312(a)
	  	 4.01 and 4.02(a)

	 312(b)
	  	 4.02

	 312(c)
	  	 4.02(b)

	 313(a)
	  	 4.04

	 313(b)(1)
	  	 Inapplicable

	 313(b)(2)
	  	 4.04

	 313(c)
	  	 4.04

	 313(d)
	  	 4.04

	 314(a)
	  	 4.03

	 314(b)
	  	 Inapplicable

	 314(c)(1) and (2)
	  	 12.05

	 314(c)(3)
	  	 Inapplicable

	 314(d)
	  	 Inapplicable

	 314(e)
	  	 12.05

	 314(f)
	  	 Inapplicable

	 315(a), (c) and (d)
	  	 7.01

	 315(b)
	  	 5.11

	 315(e)
	  	 5.12

	 316(a)(1)
	  	 5.09

	 316(a)(2)
	  	 Not required

	 316(a) (last sentence)
	  	 8.04

	 316(b)
	  	 5.07

	 317(a)
	  	 5.02

	 317(b)
	  	 3.04(a) and 3.04(b)

	 318(a)
	  	 12.07


  

	1 	 This Cross Reference Sheet is not part of the Indenture. 














 TABLE OF CONTENTS 

 

					
	 	  	PAGE	 
	ARTICLE 1	  			
	DEFINITIONS	  			
		
	 Section 1.01.  Certain Terms Defined.
	  	 	6	 
		
	ARTICLE 2	  			
	SECURITIES	  			
		
	 Section 2.01.  Forms Generally.
	  	 	10	 
	 Section 2.02.  Form of Trustee’s Certificate of
Authentication
	  	 	10	 
	 Section 2.03.  Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series.
	  	 	10	 
	 Section 2.04.  Authentication and Delivery of Securities
	  	 	13	 
	 Section 2.05.  Execution of Securities.
	  	 	13	 
	 Section 2.06.  Certificate of Authentication.
	  	 	14	 
	 Section 2.07.  Denomination and Date of Securities; Payments of
Interest.
	  	 	14	 
	 Section 2.08.  Registration, Transfer and Exchange.
	  	 	14	 
	 Section 2.09.  Mutilated, Defaced, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen
Securities
	  	 	16	 
	 Section 2.10.  Cancellation of Securities; Disposition Thereof.
	  	 	17	 
	 Section 2.11.  Temporary Securities.
	  	 	17	 
		
	ARTICLE 3	  			
	COVENANTS OF THE ISSUER	  			
		
	 Section 3.01.  Payment of Principal and Interest.
	  	 	18	 
	 Section 3.02.  Offices for Payments, Etc.
	  	 	18	 
	 Section 3.03.  Appointment to Fill a Vacancy in Office of
Trustee.
	  	 	19	 
	 Section 3.04.  Paying Agents.
	  	 	19	 
	 Section 3.05.  Written Statement to Trustee.
	  	 	19	 
	 Section 3.06.  United Kingdom or Luxembourg Publications.
	  	 	19	 
		
	ARTICLE 4	  			
	SECURITYHOLDERS LISTS AND REPORTS BY THE ISSUER AND THE TRUSTEE	  			
		
	 Section 4.01.  Issuer to Furnish Trustee Information as to Names and Addresses
of Securityholders.
	  	 	19	 
	 Section 4.02.  Preservation and Disclosure of Securityholders
Lists.
	  	 	20	 
	 Section 4.03.  Reports by the Issuer.
	  	 	20	 
	 Section 4.04.  Reports by the Trustee
	  	 	20	 
		
	ARTICLE 5	  			
	REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE AND SECURITYHOLDERS	  			
		
	 Section 5.01.  No Defaults or Events of Default
	  	 	20	 
	 Section 5.02.  Collection Of Indebtedness By Trustee; Trustee May Prove
Debt.
	  	 	20	 
	 Section 5.03.  Application of Proceeds
	  	 	21	 
	 Section 5.04.  Suits for Enforcement
	  	 	22	 
	 Section 5.05.  Restoration of Rights on Abandonment of
Proceedings.
	  	 	22	 
	 Section 5.06.  Limitations on Suits by Securityholders.
	  	 	22	 
	 Section 5.07.  Unconditional Right of Securityholders to Institute Certain
Suits
	  	 	23	 
	 Section 5.08.  Powers and Remedies Cumulative; Delay or Omission Not Waiver of
Non-Payment Event
	  	 	23	 
	 Section 5.09.  Control by Holders of Securities
	  	 	23	 
	 Section 5.10.  Waiver of Past Defaults
	  	 	23	 
	 Section 5.11.  Trustee to Give Notice of Default; But May Withhold in Certain
Circumstances
	  	 	24	 
	 Section 5.12.  Right of Court to Require Filing of Undertaking to Pay
Costs
	  	 	24	 
		
	ARTICLE 6	  			
	RESOLUTION MEASURES	  			
		
	 Section 6.01.  Securities Subject to Resolution Measures.
	  	 	24	 


  
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	 	  	PAGE	 
	ARTICLE 7	  			
	CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE AND AGENT	  			
		
	 Section 7.01.  Duties and Responsibilities of the Trustee and Agent; During
Default; Prior to Default
	  	 	26	 
	 Section 7.02.  Certain Rights of the Trustee and Agent
	  	 	27	 
	 Section 7.03.  Trustee Not Responsible for Recitals, Disposition of Securities
or Application of Proceeds Thereof
	  	 	27	 
	 Section 7.04.  Trustee and Agents May Hold Securities or Coupons; Collections,
Etc.
	  	 	27	 
	 Section 7.05.  Monies Held by Trustee
	  	 	27	 
	 Section 7.06.  Compensation and Indemnification of Trustee and Paying Agent
and Their Prior Claim
	  	 	27	 
	 Section 7.07.  Right of Trustee and Agent to Rely on Officers’
Certificate, Etc
	  	 	28	 
	 Section 7.08.  Indentures not Creating Potential Conflicting Interests for the
Trustee or Agent
	  	 	28	 
	 Section 7.09.  Persons Eligible for Appointment as Trustee
	  	 	28	 
	 Section 7.10.  Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor
Trustee
	  	 	28	 
	 Section 7.11.  Acceptance of Appointment by Successor Trustee
	  	 	29	 
	 Section 7.12.  Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business of
Trustee
	  	 	30	 
	 Section 7.13.  Appointment of Authenticating Agent and Calculation
Agent
	  	 	30	 
	 Section 7.14.  USA Patriot Act
	  	 	31	 
	 Section 7.15.  Force Majeure
	  	 	31	 
	 Section 7.16.  Waiver of Jury Trial
	  	 	31	 
		
	ARTICLE 8	  			
	CONCERNING THE SECURITYHOLDERS	  			
		
	 Section 8.01.  Evidence of Action Taken by Securityholders
	  	 	31	 
	 Section 8.02.  Proof of Execution of Instruments and of Holding of
Securities
	  	 	32	 
	 Section 8.03.  Holders to be Treated as Owners
	  	 	32	 
	 Section 8.04.  Securities Owned by Issuer Deemed Not Outstanding
	  	 	32	 
	 Section 8.05.  Right of Revocation of Action Taken
	  	 	33	 
		
	ARTICLE 9	  			
	SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES	  			
		
	 Section 9.01.  Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of
Securityholders
	  	 	33	 
	 Section 9.02.  Supplemental Indentures With Consent of
Securityholders
	  	 	34	 
	 Section 9.03.  Effect of Supplemental Indenture
	  	 	35	 
	 Section 9.04.  Documents to be Given to Trustee
	  	 	35	 
	 Section 9.05.  Notation on Securities in Respect of Supplemental
Indentures
	  	 	35	 
	 Section 9.06   46 .
	  			
		
	ARTICLE 10	  			
	CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE OR CONVEYANCE	  			
		
	 Section 10.01.  Successor Corporation Substituted
	  	 	35	 
		
	ARTICLE 11	  			
	SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE; UNCLAIMED MONIES	  			
		
	 Section 11.01.  Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture
	  	 	35	 
	 Section 11.02.  Repayment Of Monies Held By Paying Agent
	  	 	36	 
	 Section 11.03.  Return of Monies Held by Trustee and Paying Agent Unclaimed
for Two Years
	  	 	36	 
		
	ARTICLE 12	  			
	MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS	  			
		
	 Section 12.01.  Incorporators, Stockholders, Officers and Directors of Issuer
Exempt From Individual Liability
	  	 	36	 
	 Section 12.02.  Provisions of Indenture for the Sole Benefit of Parties and
Holders of Securities and Coupons
	  	 	36	 
	 Section 12.03.  Successors and Assigns of Issuer Bound by
Indenture
	  	 	37	 


  
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	 Section 12.04.  Notices and Demands on Issuer, Trustee and Holders of
Securities and Coupons
	  	 	37	 
	 Section 12.05.  Officers’ Certificates and Opinions of Counsel;
Statements to be Contained Therein
	  	 	37	 
	 Section 12.06.  Payments Due on Saturdays, Sundays or Holidays
	  	 	38	 
	 Section 12.07.  Conflict of Any Provision of Indenture With Trust Indenture
Act
	  	 	38	 
	 Section 12.08.  Governing Law
	  	 	38	 
	 Section 12.09.  Counterparts
	  	 	38	 
	 Section 12.10.  Securities in a
Non-U.S. Currency
	  	 	38	 
	 Section 12.11.  Submission to Jurisdiction
	  	 	39	 
	 Section 12.12.  Judgment Currency
	  	 	39	 
	 Section 12.13.  Severability
	  	 	39	 
	 Section 12.14.  Entire Agreement
	  	 	39	 
		
	ARTICLE 13	  			
	REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES	  			
		
	 Section 13.01.  Applicability of Article; Approval by Competent Supervisory
Authority
	  	 	40	 
	 Section 13.02.  Notice of Redemption; Partial Redemptions
	  	 	40	 
	 Section 13.03.  Payment of Securities Called For Redemption
	  	 	41	 
	 Section 13.04.  Exclusion of Certain Securities From Eligibility for Selection
for Redemption
	  	 	41	 
		
	ARTICLE 14	  			
	EFFECTS OF SUBORDINATION	  			
		
	 Section 14.01.  Notice to the Trustee
	  	 	41	 
	 Section 14.02.  Payments on Securities Permitted if No Default
	  	 	42	 
	 Section 14.03.  Effectuation of Subordination By Trustee
	  	 	42	 
	 Section 14.04.  Knowledge of Trustee
	  	 	42	 


  
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 THIS AMENDED AND RESTATED SUBORDINATED INDENTURE, dated as of August 3, 2021 among
DEUTSCHE BANK AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT (the “Issuer”), WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as trustee (the “Trustee”), and DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS (“DBTCA”), as Paying Agent, Transfer
Agent, Registrar and Authenticating Agent. 
 W I T N E S S E T H : 

WHEREAS, the Issuer has duly authorized the issue from time to time of its unsecured debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness to
be issued in one or more series (the “Securities”) up to such principal amount or amounts as may from time to time be authorized in accordance with the terms of this Indenture; 

WHEREAS, the Issuer has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide, among other things, for the authentication,
delivery and administration of the Securities; 
 WHEREAS, all things necessary to make this Indenture a valid indenture and agreement
according to its terms have been done; and 
 WHEREAS, for the avoidance of doubt, the subordinated indenture, dated as of May 21, 2013,
as supplemented by the third supplemental subordinated indenture, dated as of December 1, 2017, the fifth supplemental subordinated indenture, dated as of July 8, 2020, and the seventh supplemental subordinated indenture, dated as of
January 14, 2021 (the “Original Subordinated Indenture”), shall not be amended by this Amended and Restated Subordinated Indenture with respect to any Outstanding Securities of any series created prior to the date of this
Amended and Restated Subordinated Indenture, and any Outstanding Securities of any series created prior to the date of this Amended and Restated Subordinated Indenture shall continue to be governed by such Original Subordinated Indenture and not by
this Amended and Restated Subordinated Indenture; and 
 WHEREAS, for the avoidance of doubt, this Amended and Restated Subordinated
Indenture shall become effective upon the first issuance of Securities; 
 NOW, THEREFORE: 

In consideration of the premises and the purchases of the Securities by the holders thereof, the Issuer and the Trustee mutually covenant and
agree for the equal and proportionate benefit of the respective holders from time to time of the Securities and of the coupons, if any, appertaining thereto as follows: 

ARTICLE 1 

DEFINITIONS 

Section 1.01. Certain Terms Defined. The following terms (except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context
otherwise clearly requires) for all purposes of this Indenture and of any indenture supplemental hereto shall have the respective meanings specified in this Section. All other terms used in this Indenture that are defined in the Trust Indenture Act
(as defined below) or the definitions of which in the Securities Act (as defined below) are referred to in the Trust Indenture Act, including terms defined therein by reference to the Securities Act (except as herein otherwise expressly provided or
unless the context otherwise requires), shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Trust Indenture Act and in the Securities Act as in force at the date of this Indenture. All accounting terms used herein and not expressly defined shall
have the meanings assigned to such terms in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and the term “generally accepted accounting principles” means such accounting principles as are generally accepted with respect to
the Issuer at the time of the computation under the system of accounting employed by the Issuer in its filings with the Securities Exchange Commission under the Exchange Act (as defined below). The words “herein”,
“hereof” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision. The terms defined in this Article have the meanings
assigned to them in this Article and include the plural as well as the singular. 
 “Agent” means any Registrar, Paying
Agent, Authenticating Agent and Transfer Agent. 
 “Authenticating Agent” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 7.13. 
 “Authorized Agent” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 12.11. 

“Authorized Newspaper” means a newspaper (which, in the case of The City of New York, will, if practicable, be The Wall
Street Journal (Eastern Edition)) published in the English language customarily published at least once a day for at least five days in each calendar week and of general circulation in the country 












 
of circulation. To the extent that notice is also required to be given to Holders of Securities of any series by applicable English or Luxembourg law or stock exchange regulation, an Authorized
Newspaper will also mean a similar publication in London, the United Kingdom, such as, if practicable, the Financial Times (London Edition), or a similar publication in Luxembourg, such as, if practicable, the Luxemburger Wort. If it shall be
impractical to make any publication of any notice required hereby in an Authorized Newspaper, any publication or other notice in lieu thereof which is made or given in a newspaper of reputable standing in the relevant location shall constitute a
sufficient publication of such notice. 
 “Authorized Signatories” means any two persons acting together authorized by the
Issuer, its articles of association or otherwise under German law to act on behalf of the Issuer. 
 “Bearer Security”
means any Security other than a Registered Security. 
 “Beneficial Owner” shall mean (i) if any Securities are in
global form, the beneficial owners of such Securities (and any interest therein) and (ii) if any Securities are in definitive form, the holders in whose name such Securities are registered in the Security register of the Issuer and any
beneficial owners holding an interest in such Securities in definitive form. 
 “Board” means the Management Board
(Vorstand) of the Issuer or any committee of such Board duly authorized to act on its behalf. 
 “Board Resolution”
means a copy of one or more resolutions duly adopted or consented to by the Board, or any other evidence of due corporate action under German law in full force and effect and delivered to the Trustee. 

“bridge bank” means a newly chartered German bank that would receive some or all of the Issuer’s equity securities,
assets, liabilities and material contracts, including those attributable to the Issuer’s branches and subsidiaries, in the event of the imposition of Resolution Measures. 

“Business Day” means a day (other than Saturday or Sunday) on which commercial banks and foreign exchange markets settle
payments and are open for general business (including dealing in foreign exchange and foreign currency deposits) in New York City and London. 

“Calculation Agent” has the meaning set forth in Section 7.13. 

“Capital Regulations” means, at any time, the regulations, requirements, guidelines and policies relating to capital adequacy
adopted by bodies of the European Union or the Federal Republic of Germany or any other competent authority then in effect in the Federal Republic of Germany and applicable to the Issuer. 

“Commission” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time to time constituted, created under the Exchange Act,
or if at any time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture such Commission is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then the body performing such duties on such date. 

“competent resolution authority” means any authority with the ability to exercise a Resolution Measure. 

“competent supervisory authority” means any authority that bears primary responsibility for the prudential supervision of the
Issuer. 
 “Corporate Trust Office” means the office of the Trustee at which the corporate trust business of the Trustee
with respect to this Indenture shall, at any particular time, be principally administered, which office is, at the date as of which this Indenture is dated, 50 South Sixth Street, Suite 1290, Minneapolis, MN 55402. 

“Coupon” means any interest coupon appertaining to a Security. 

“CRR” means Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and the Council of June 26, 2013 on prudential
requirements for credit institutions and investment firms and amending Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 (including any provisions of regulatory law supplementing this Regulation); to the extent that any provisions of the CRR are amended or replaced, the
term CRR as used in this Indenture shall refer to such amended provisions or successor provisions. 

  
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 “DBTCA” means Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas. 

“Depositary” means, with respect to the Securities of any series issuable or issued in the form of one or more Registered
Global Securities, the Person designated as Depositary by the Issuer pursuant to Section 2.03 until a successor Depositary shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
“Depositary” shall mean or include each Person who is then a Depositary hereunder, and if at any time there is more than one such Person, “Depositary” as used with respect to the Securities of any such series shall
mean the Depositary with respect to the Registered Global Securities of that series. 
 “Exchange Act” means the U.S.
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. 
 “group entity” means an entity that is included in the corporate group
subject to a Resolution Measure. 
 “Holder”, “Holder of Securities”, “Securityholder” or
other similar terms mean (a) in the case of any Registered Security, the Person in whose name such Security is registered in the security register kept by the Issuer for that purpose in accordance with the terms hereof, and (b) in the case
of any Bearer Security, the bearer of such Security, or any Coupon appertaining thereto, as the case may be. 
 “incorporated
provision” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 12.07. 
 “Indenture” means this instrument as
originally executed and delivered or, as so amended or supplemented or both, and shall include the forms and terms of particular series of Securities established as contemplated hereunder. 

“Issuer” means Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft, a German stock corporation with limited liability, and, subject to
Article 10, its successors and assigns. 
 “Issuer Order” means a written statement, request or order of the Issuer
signed in its name by any two Authorized Signatories of the Issuer. 
 “Judgment Currency” shall have the meaning set forth
in Section 12.12. 
 “New York Banking Day” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 12.12. 

“Non-Payment Event” has the meaning specified in Section 5.02. 

“Non-U.S. Currency” means a currency issued by the government of a country other than
the United States (or any currency unit comprised of any such currencies). 
 “Officers’ Certificate” means a
certificate (i) signed by any two Authorized Signatories of the Issuer and (ii) delivered to the Trustee. Each such certificate shall comply with Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act and include the statements provided for in
Section 12.05. 
 “Opinion of Counsel” means an opinion in writing signed by senior legal counsel of the Issuer or by
such other legal counsel who may be an employee of or counsel to the Issuer and who shall be satisfactory to the Trustee. Each such opinion shall comply with Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act and include the statements provided for in
Section 12.05. 
 “original issue date” of any Security (or portion thereof) means the earlier of (a) the date of
such Security or (b) the date of any Security (or portion thereof) for which such Security was issued (directly or indirectly) on registration of transfer, exchange or substitution. 

“Original Issue Discount Security” means any Security that is issued at a discount from its stated principal amount thereof to
be due and payable upon repayment prior to its stated maturity, and such discount is equal to or more than the product of one-fourth of one percent (0.25%) of the stated principal amount of the Security and
the number of full years to its maturity, where the “issue price” of the Security will be the first price at which a substantial amount of the Security is sold to the public (i.e., excluding sales of the Security to underwriters,
placement agents, wholesalers, or similar persons). 
 “Outstanding” when used with reference to Securities, shall mean,
subject to the provisions of Section 8.04, as of any particular time, all Securities authenticated and delivered by the Trustee under this Indenture, except 

(a) Securities theretofore cancelled by the Trustee, delivered to the Registrar for cancellation, or cancelled, written down or
converted as a consequence of a Resolution Measure; and 
 (b) Securities which shall have been paid or in substitution for
which other Securities shall have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to the terms of Section 2.09 (except with respect to any such Security as to which proof satisfactory to the Trustee is presented that such Security is held by a person
in whose hands such Security is a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Issuer). 

  
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 In determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of
Outstanding Securities of any or all series have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, the principal amount of an Original Issue Discount Security that shall be deemed to be Outstanding for such
purposes shall be the amount of the principal thereof that would be due and payable as of the date of such determination if repaid on such date. 

“Own Funds Instruments” means own funds instruments of the Issuer within the meaning of the CRR. 

“Paying Agent” means DBTCA, with respect to payments to be made in U.S. Dollars (or such other currency as to which DBTCA or
its agent has agreed to make payments hereunder), or any person authorized by the Issuer in accordance with Section 3.04. 

“Periodic Offering” means an offering of Securities of a series from time to time, the specific terms of which Securities,
including, without limitation, the rate or rates of interest, if any, thereon, the stated maturity or maturities thereof and the redemption provisions, if any, with respect thereto, are to be determined by the Issuer or its agents upon the issuance
of such Securities. 
 “Person” means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, association, joint stock
company, trust, unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof. 
 “principal”
whenever used with reference to the Securities or any Security or any portion thereof, shall be deemed to include “and premium, if any”. 

“Priority Claims” means claims against, and obligations of, the Issuer which do not qualify as Own Funds Instruments; this
includes (i) all claims of unsubordinated creditors of the Issuer (including claims against the Issuer under its unsecured and unsubordinated non-preferred debt instruments within the meaning of
Section 46f(6) sentence 1 of the German Banking Act (Kreditwesengesetz) (including obligations of the Issuer under any such debt instruments that were issued by the Issuer before July 21, 2018 and that are subject to
Section 46f(9) sentence 2 of the German Banking Act) (or any successor provision thereof)), (ii) the claims specified in Section 39(1) nos. 1 to 5 of the German Insolvency Code (Insolvenzordnung) (or any successor provision
thereof), (iii) contractually subordinated obligations of the Issuer within the meaning of Section 39(2) of the German Insolvency Code (or any successor provision thereof) which do not qualify as Own Funds Instruments at the time Resolution
Measures are imposed on the Issuer or in the event of a dissolution, liquidation, insolvency, composition or other proceedings for the avoidance of insolvency of, or against, the Issuer, and (iv) other contractually subordinated obligations of
the Issuer within the meaning of Section 46f(7a) sentence 3 of the German Banking Act (or any successor provision thereto). 

“record date” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.07. 

“Redemption Notice Period” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 13.01. 

“Registered Global Security” means a Security evidencing all or a part of a series of Registered Securities, issued to the
Depositary for such series in accordance with Section 2.04, and bearing the legend prescribed in Section 2.04. 

“Registered Security” means any Security registered on the Security register of the Issuer. 

“Registrar” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.08. 

“Required Currency” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 12.12. 

“Resolution Measure” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.01. 

“Responsible Officer” when used with respect to any Person means the chairman of the board of directors, any vice chairman of
the board of directors, the chairman of the trust committee, the chairman of the executive committee, any vice chairman of the executive committee, the president, any vice president (whether or not designated by numbers or words added before or
after the title “vice president”), the cashier, the secretary, the treasurer, any trust officer, any assistant trust officer, any assistant vice president, any assistant cashier, any assistant secretary, any assistant treasurer, or
any other officer or assistant officer of the Person customarily performing functions similar to those performed by the persons who at the time shall be such officers, respectively, or to whom any corporate trust matter is referred because of such
Person’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject. 
 “Securities Act” means the U.S. Securities Act of
1933, as amended. 
 “Security” or “Securities” has the meaning stated in the first recital of this
Indenture, or, as the case may be, Securities that have been authenticated and delivered under this Indenture. 
 “Transfer
Agent” means DBTCA. 

  
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 “Trust Indenture Act” means the U.S. Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as
amended. 
 “Trustee” means the Person identified as “Trustee” in the first paragraph hereof and, subject
to the provisions of Article 7, shall also include any successor trustee. “Trustee” shall also mean or include each Person who is then a trustee hereunder and if at any time there is more than one such Person,
“Trustee” as used with respect to the Securities of any series shall mean the trustee with respect to the Securities of such series. 

“U.S. Dollar” means the coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for the
payment of public and private debts. 
 “U.S. Person” means a Person that is a citizen or resident of the United States or a
U.S. domestic corporation or that otherwise will be subject to U.S. federal income taxation on a net income basis in respect of the Securities. 

“Yield to Maturity” means the yield to maturity on a series of Securities, calculated at the time of issuance of such series,
or, if applicable, at the most recent redetermination of interest on such series, and calculated in accordance with accepted financial practice. 

ARTICLE 2 

SECURITIES 

Section 2.01. Forms Generally. The Securities of each series and the Coupons, if any, to be attached thereto shall be
substantially in such form (not inconsistent with this Indenture) as shall be established by one or more Board Resolutions (as set forth in a Board Resolution), one or more Officers’ Certificates detailing such establishment or in one or more
indentures supplemental hereto, in each case with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture and may have imprinted or otherwise reproduced thereon such legend or legends
or endorsements, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture, as may be required to comply with any law or with any rules or regulations pursuant thereto, or with any rules of any securities exchange or to conform to general usage, all as
may be determined by the officers executing such Securities and Coupons, if any, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities and Coupons. 

The definitive Securities and Coupons, if any, shall be printed, lithographed on security printed paper or may be produced in any other manner,
all as determined by the officers executing such Securities and Coupons, if any, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities and Coupons, if any. 

As applied to the Securities to be issued under this Indenture on or after the date of this Indenture, the forms of Securities shall be
substantially in the forms of Schedule I to this Indenture and as may be determined from time to time pursuant to Officers’ Certificates pursuant to Section 2.03 of the Indenture 

Section 2.02. Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication 

. The Trustee’s certificate of authentication on all Securities shall be in substantially the following form: 

“This is one of the Securities referred to in the within-mentioned Subordinated Indenture.” 

 

			
	  

	as Trustee
		
	 By:
	 	  

		 	 Authorized Officer



 If at any time there shall be an Authenticating Agent appointed with respect to any series of Securities,
then the Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication to be borne by the Securities of each such series shall be substantially as follows: 

“This is one of the Securities referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.” 

 

			
	  

	As Authenticating Agent
		
	 By:
	 	  

		 	 Authorized Officer



 Section 2.03. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series. The aggregate principal amount of
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 The Securities are intended to qualify as Own Funds Instruments of the Issuer in the form of
Tier 2 instruments (Instrumente des Ergänzungskapitals) within the meaning of Article 63 of the CRR (“Tier 2 Instruments”). The obligations under the Securities shall constitute unsecured and subordinated obligations of
the Issuer, ranking pari passu among themselves and, pari passu with all other equally subordinated obligations of the Issuer from time to time constituting Own Funds Instruments in the form of Tier 2 Instruments. In the event
of Resolution Measures being imposed on the Issuer or in the event of the dissolution, liquidation, insolvency (Insolvenzverfahren), composition or other proceedings for the avoidance of insolvency of, or against, the Issuer, the obligations
under the Securities shall be fully subordinated to all Priority Claims. In any such event, no amounts shall be payable in respect of the Securities until all Priority Claims have been satisfied in full. If the Securities are deemed not to have
qualified as Tier 2 Instruments or other Own Funds Instruments or at any time cease to so qualify, the obligations under the Securities will, pursuant to Section 46f(7a) sentence 3 of the German Banking Act, rank senior to all obligations
under Own Funds Instruments. 
 The Securities may be issued in one or more series and each such series shall rank equally and pari
passu with all other unsecured and equally subordinated debt (it being understood that no Priority Claims constitute such equally subordinated obligations) of the Issuer, except as otherwise provided by applicable law or the terms of any other
indebtedness, and in particular, if such debt is expressed to rank junior to the Securities, then the Securities shall rank senior to such junior debt, but junior to the Priority Claims, except as otherwise provided by applicable law. 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth herein, but to the extent not otherwise precluded by a Resolution Measure or the application
of mandatory aspects of insolvency law, the prior claims against the Issuer under Section 7.06 of this Indenture shall not be subordinated to the Priority Claims and shall survive the imposition of a Resolution Measure by the competent resolution
authority in the priority set forth in Section 5.03 hereof, in each case. 
 No subsequent agreement shall (i) limit, or shall have the
effect of limiting, the subordination of the Securities as provided for herein; (ii) amend any provision establishing the maturity date or any date on which a redemption option, if any, may be exercised with respect to any of the Securities to
provide for an earlier date; or (iii) shorten any applicable notice period. If the Securities are redeemed or repurchased otherwise than in accordance with the terms of the Securities, then the amounts paid must be returned to the Issuer
irrespective of any agreement to the contrary. 
 No Holder may set off its claims arising under the Securities against any claims of the
Issuer. No collateral or guarantee shall be provided at any time to secure claims of the Holders under the Securities; any collateral or guarantee already provided or granted in the future in connection with other liabilities of the Issuer may not
be used for claims under the Securities.  
 There shall be established in one or more Board Resolutions, in one or more
Officers’ Certificates detailing such establishment or in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, prior to the initial issuance of Securities of any series: 

(a) the designation of the Securities of the series, which shall distinguish the Securities of the series from the Securities of all other
series; 
 (b) any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of the series that may be authenticated and delivered under
this Indenture (except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities of the series pursuant to Section 2.08, 2.09, 2.11, 9.05 or 13.03); 

(c) if other than U.S. Dollars, the coin or currency in which the Securities of that series are denominated (including, but not limited to, any
Non-U.S. Currency); 
 (d) the date or dates on which the principal of the Securities of the series
is payable (and any provisions relating to extending or shortening the date on which the principal of the Securities is payable); 
 (e) the
rate or rates at which the Securities of the series shall bear interest, if any, the date or dates from which such interest shall accrue, on which such interest shall be payable and (in the case of Registered Securities) on which a record shall be
taken for the determination of Holders to whom interest is payable and/or the method by which such rate or rates or date or dates shall be determined; 

(f) the place or places where the principal of and any interest on Securities of the series shall be payable (if other than as provided in
Section 3.02); 
 (g) the right, if any, of the Issuer to redeem Securities, in whole or in part, at its option and the period or
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 (h) the obligation, if any, of the Issuer to redeem, purchase or repay Securities of the
series pursuant to any mandatory redemption or analogous provisions or at the option of a Holder thereof and the price or prices at which and the period or periods within which and any terms and conditions upon which Securities of the series shall
be redeemed, purchased or repaid, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation; 
 (i) if other than denominations of $1,000 and any
integral multiple thereof in the case of Registered Securities, or $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof in the case of Bearer Securities, the denominations in which Securities of the series shall be issuable; 

(j) if other than the coin or currency in which the Securities of that series are denominated, the coin or currency in which payment of the
principal of or interest on the Securities of such series shall be payable; 
 (k) if the principal of or interest on the Securities of such
series are to be payable, at the election of the Issuer or a Holder thereof, in a coin or currency other than that in which the Securities are denominated, the period or periods within which, and the terms and conditions upon which, such election
may be made; 
 (l) if the amount of payments of principal of and interest on the Securities of the series may be determined with reference
to any currencies, commodities or securities of the Issuer or of other entities, a basket or baskets of those currencies, commodities or securities, or an index or indices of those currencies, commodities or securities, or interest rates, or
intangibles, articles, or goods, or any other financial or economic or other measures or instruments, including the occurrence or non-occurrence of any events or circumstances, the manner in which such amounts
shall be determined; 
 (m) if the Holders of the Securities of the series may convert or exchange the Securities of the series into or for
securities of the Issuer or of other entities or other property (or the cash value thereof), the specific terms of and period during which such conversion or exchange may be made; 

(n) whether the Securities of the series will be issuable as Registered Securities (and if so, whether such Securities will be issuable as
Registered Global Securities) or Bearer Securities (with or without Coupons), or any combination of the foregoing, any restrictions applicable to the offer, sale, transfer, exchange or delivery of Bearer Securities or Registered Securities or the
payment of interest thereon and, if other than as provided in Section 2.08, the terms upon which Bearer Securities of any series may be exchanged for Registered Securities of such series and vice versa; 

(o) whether and under what circumstances the Issuer will pay additional amounts on the Securities of the series held by a Person who is not a
U.S. Person in respect of any tax, assessment or governmental charge withheld or deducted and, if so, whether the Issuer will have the option to redeem such Securities rather than pay such additional amounts; 

(p) if the Securities of such series are to be issuable in definitive form (whether upon original issue or upon exchange of a temporary
Security of such series) only upon receipt of certain certificates or other documents or satisfaction of other conditions, the form and terms of such certificates, documents or conditions; 

(q) any trustees, depositaries, authenticating or Paying Agents, transfer agents or registrars or any other agents with respect to the
Securities of such series; 
 (r) any other events of default or covenants with respect to the Securities of such series; 

(s) any deletions from, modifications of or additions to the subordination provisions of this Section 2.03 with respect to the subordination
terms of the Securities of such series; 
 (t) whether the debt securities qualify for regulatory capital treatment and, if so, the category
of capital for which they qualify; and 
 (u) any other terms of the series. 

All Securities of any one series and Coupons, if any, appertaining thereto, shall be substantially identical, except in the case of Registered
Securities as to denomination and except as may otherwise be provided by the Board Resolution or Officers’ Certificate referred to above or as set forth in any such indenture supplemental hereto. All Securities of any one series need not be
issued at the same time and may be issued from time to time, consistent with the terms of this Indenture, if so provided by such Board Resolution, such Officers’ Certificate or in any such indenture supplemental hereto; provided,
however, that additional Securities shall be issued under a separate CUSIP or ISIN number unless the additional Securities are issued pursuant to a “qualified reopening” of the original series, are otherwise treated as part of the same
“issue” of debt instruments as the original series or are issued with less than a de minimis amount of original issue discount, in each case for U.S. federal income tax purposes. 

  
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 Section 2.04. Authentication and Delivery of Securities. The Issuer may
deliver Securities of any series having attached thereto appropriate Coupons, if any, executed by the Issuer to the Trustee for authentication together with the applicable documents referred to below in this Section, and the Trustee or an
Authenticating Agent on behalf of the Trustee shall thereupon authenticate and deliver such Securities to or upon an Issuer Order with respect to those Securities or pursuant to such procedures acceptable to the Trustee and to such recipients as may
be specified from time to time by an Issuer Order. In authenticating such Securities and accepting the additional responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to such Securities, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive (in the case of
subparagraphs 2.04(b) and 2.04(c) below only at or before the time of the first request of the Issuer to the Trustee to authenticate Securities of such series) and (subject to Section 7.01) shall be fully protected in relying upon, unless and
until such documents have been superseded or revoked: 
 (a) an Issuer Order requesting such authentication and setting forth delivery
instructions if the Securities and Coupons, if any, are not to be delivered to the Issuer, provided that, with respect to Securities of a series subject to a Periodic Offering, (i) such Issuer Order may be delivered by the Issuer to the
Trustee prior to the delivery to the Trustee of such Securities for authentication and delivery, (ii) the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver Securities of such series for original issue from time to time, in an aggregate principal amount
not exceeding the aggregate principal amount established for such series, pursuant to an Issuer Order or pursuant to procedures acceptable to the Trustee as may be specified from time to time by an Issuer Order and (iii) the maturity date or
dates, original issue date or dates, interest rate or rates and any other terms of Securities of such series (including Redemption Notice Periods) shall be determined by an Issuer Order or pursuant to such procedures; 

(b) any Board Resolution, Officers’ Certificate and/or executed supplemental indenture referred to in Sections 2.01 and 2.03 by or
pursuant to which the forms and terms of the Securities and Coupons, if any, were established; and 
 (c) an Officers’ Certificate
setting forth the form or forms and terms of the Securities and Coupons, if any, stating that the form or forms and terms of the Securities and Coupons, if any, have been established pursuant to Sections 2.01 and 2.03 and comply with this Indenture,
and covering such other matters as the Trustee may reasonably request. 
 The Trustee shall have the right to decline to authenticate and
deliver any Securities under this Section if the Trustee, being advised by counsel, determines that such action may not lawfully be taken by the Issuer or if the Trustee in good faith by its board of directors or board of trustees, executive
committee, or a trust committee of directors or trustees or Responsible Officers shall determine that such action would expose the Trustee to personal liability to existing Holders or would affect the Trustee’s own rights, duties, liabilities
or immunities under the Securities, this Indenture or otherwise. 
 If the Issuer shall establish pursuant to Section 2.03 that the
Securities of a series are to be issued in the form of one or more Registered Global Securities, then the Issuer shall execute and the Trustee shall, in accordance with this Section and the Issuer Order with respect to such series, authenticate and
deliver one or more Registered Global Securities that (i) shall represent and shall be denominated in an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of all of the Securities of such series issued and not yet cancelled, (ii) shall be
registered in the name of the Depositary for such Registered Global Security or Securities or the nominee of such Depositary, (iii) shall be delivered by the Registrar, as custodian for the Depositary or pursuant to such Depositary’s
instructions and (iv) shall bear a legend substantially to the following effect: “Unless and until it is exchanged in whole or in part for Securities in definitive registered form, this Security may not be transferred except as a whole by
the Depositary to the nominee of the Depositary or by a nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary or another nominee of the Depositary or by the Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Depositary or a nominee of such successor
Depositary.” 
 Each Depositary designated pursuant to Section 2.03 must, at the time of its designation and at all times while it
serves as Depositary, be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act and any other applicable statute or regulation. 

Section 2.05. Execution of Securities. The Securities and, if applicable, each Coupon appertaining thereto shall be signed
on behalf of the Issuer by any two Authorized Signatories of the Issuer authorized to execute Securities or, if applicable, Coupons, which Securities or Coupons may, but need not, be attested. Such signatures may be the manual or facsimile
signatures of the present or any future such Authorized Signatory. Minor errors or defects in any such reproduction of any such signature shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any Security that has been duly authenticated and delivered
by the Trustee. 
 In case any Authorized Signatory of the Issuer who shall have signed any of the Securities or Coupons, if any, pursuant to
such Person’s authorization to do so, shall cease to be an Authorized Signatory, or such authorization shall be withdrawn, before the Security or Coupon so signed (or the Security to which the Coupon


  
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so signed appertains) shall be authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or disposed of by the Issuer, such Security or Coupon nevertheless may be authenticated and delivered or disposed of as
though the person who signed such Security or Coupon had not ceased to be such Authorized Signatory or the authorization to sign such Security or Coupon had not been withdrawn; and any Security or Coupon may be signed on behalf of the Issuer by any
two Authorized Signatories as, at the actual date of the execution of such Security or Coupon, shall be authorized by the Issuer to do so, although at the date of the execution and delivery of this Indenture any such person was not so authorized.

 Section 2.06. Certificate of Authentication. Only such Securities as shall bear thereon a certificate of authentication
substantially in the form hereinbefore recited, executed by the Trustee by the manual or electronic signature (including any electronic signature complying with the U.S. federal ESIGN Act of 2000, e.g., www.docusign.com) of one of its authorized
officers, shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose. No Coupon shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture or shall be valid and obligatory for any purpose until the certificate of
authentication on the Security to which such Coupon appertains shall have been duly executed by the Trustee. The execution of such certificate by the Trustee upon any Security executed by the Issuer shall be conclusive evidence that the Security so
authenticated has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder and that the Holder is entitled to the benefits of this Indenture. 

Section 2.07. Denomination and Date of Securities; Payments of Interest. The Securities of each series shall be issuable as
Registered Securities or Bearer Securities in denominations established as contemplated by Section 2.03 or, with respect to the Registered Securities of any series, if not so established, in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple
thereof. If denominations of Bearer Securities of any series are not so established, such Securities shall be issuable in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof. The Securities of each series shall be numbered, lettered or
otherwise distinguished in such manner or in accordance with such plan as the officers of the Issuer executing the same may determine, as evidenced by the execution and authentication thereof. 

Each Registered Security shall be dated the date of its authentication. Each Bearer Security shall be dated as provided in the Board
Resolutions or Officers’ Certificate of the Issuer referred to in Section 2.03. The Securities of each series shall bear interest, if any, from the date, and such interest shall be payable on the dates, established as contemplated by
Section 2.03. 
 The Person in whose name any Registered Security of any series is registered at the close of business on any record
date applicable to a particular series with respect to any interest payment date for such series shall be entitled to receive the interest, if any, payable on such interest payment date notwithstanding any transfer or exchange of such Registered
Security subsequent to the record date and prior to such interest payment date, except if and to the extent the Issuer shall default in the payment of the interest due on such interest payment date for such series, in which case such defaulted
interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names Outstanding Registered Securities for such series are registered at the close of business on a subsequent record date (which shall be not less than five Business Days prior to the date of payment
of such defaulted interest) established by notice given by mail by or on behalf of the Issuer to the Holders of Registered Securities not less than 15 days preceding such subsequent record date. The term “record date” as used with
respect to any interest payment date (except a date for payment of defaulted interest) for the Securities of any series shall mean the date specified as such in the terms of the Registered Securities of such series established as contemplated by
Section 2.03, or, if no such date is so established, the Business Day immediately preceding the relevant date of payment in respect of such interest payment date. In the case of Securities in definitive registered form, the term “record
date” as used with respect to any interest payment date (except a date for payment of defaulted interest) for such Securities shall mean the date specified as such in the terms of such Securities established as contemplated by
Section 2.03, or, if no such date is so established, the close of business on the 15th day (whether or not such 15th day is a Business Day) before such interest payment date. 

Section 2.08. Registration, Transfer and Exchange. The Issuer will keep at each office or agency to be maintained for the
purpose as provided in Section 3.02 for each series of Securities a register or registers in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it will provide for the registration of Registered Securities of such series and the
registration of transfer of Registered Securities of such series. The Issuer hereby appoints DBTCA as the registrar for the purpose of registering the Registered Securities and transfers of such Registered Securities in the register as provided
herein (“Registrar”). Such register shall be in written form in the English language or in any other form capable of being converted into such form within a reasonable time. At all reasonable times such register or registers shall
be open for inspection by the Trustee. 
 Upon due presentation for registration of transfer of any Registered Security of any series at any
such office or agency to be maintained for the purpose as provided in Section 3.02, the Issuer shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in the name of the transferee or transferees a new Registered Security or Registered


  
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Securities of the same series, maturity date, interest rate and original issue date in authorized denominations for a like aggregate principal amount. 

Bearer Securities (except for any temporary global Bearer Securities) and Coupons (except for Coupons attached to any temporary global Bearer
Securities) shall be transferable by delivery. 
 At the option of the Holder thereof, Registered Securities of any series (other than a
Registered Global Security, except as set forth below) may be exchanged for a Registered Security or Registered Securities of such series having authorized denominations and an equal aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of such Registered
Securities to be exchanged at the agency of the Issuer that shall be maintained for such purpose in accordance with Section 3.02 and upon payment, if the Issuer shall so require, of the charges hereinafter provided. If the Securities of any
series are issued in both registered and unregistered form, except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 2.03, at the option of the Holder thereof, Bearer Securities of any series may be exchanged for Registered Securities of such series
having authorized denominations and an equal aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of such Bearer Securities to be exchanged at the agency of the Issuer that shall be maintained for such purpose in accordance with Section 3.02, with, in
the case of Bearer Securities that have Coupons attached, all unmatured Coupons and all matured Coupons in default thereto appertaining, and upon payment, if the Issuer shall so require, of the charges hereinafter provided. At the option of the
Holder thereof, if Bearer Securities of any series, maturity date, interest rate and original issue date are issued in more than one authorized denomination, except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 2.03, such Bearer Securities may be
exchanged for Bearer Securities of such series having authorized denominations and an equal aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of such Bearer Securities to be exchanged at the agency of the Issuer that shall be maintained for such purpose in
accordance with Section 3.02 or as specified pursuant to Section 2.03, with, in the case of Bearer Securities that have Coupons attached, all unmatured Coupons and all matured Coupons in default thereto appertaining, and upon payment, if
the Issuer shall so require, of the charges hereinafter provided. Unless otherwise specified pursuant to Section 2.03, Registered Securities of any series may not be exchanged for Bearer Securities of such series. Whenever any Securities are so
surrendered for exchange, the Issuer shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Securities and Coupons surrendered upon any exchange or transfer
provided for in this Indenture shall be promptly cancelled and disposed of by the Trustee and the Trustee will deliver a certificate of disposition thereof to the Issuer upon written request. 

All Registered Securities presented for registration of transfer, exchange, redemption or payment shall (if so required by the Issuer or the
Trustee) be duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument or instruments of transfer in form satisfactory to the Issuer, Registrar and Transfer Agent duly executed by the Holder or its attorney duly authorized in writing. 

The Issuer may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any
exchange or registration of transfer of Securities. No service charge shall be made for any such transaction. 
 The Issuer shall not be
required to exchange or register a transfer of (a) any Securities of any series for a period of 15 days immediately preceding the first mailing of notice of redemption of Securities of such series to be redeemed, (b) any Securities
selected, called or being called for redemption, in whole or in part, except, in the case of any Security to be redeemed in part, the portion thereof not so to be redeemed or (c) any Securities if the Holder thereof has exercised any right to
require the Issuer to repurchase such Securities, in whole or in part, except, in the case of any Security to be repurchased in part, the portion thereof not so to be repurchased. 

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2.08, unless and until it is exchanged in whole or in part for Securities in
definitive registered form, a Registered Global Security representing all or a portion of the Securities of a series may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depositary for such series to a nominee of such Depositary or by a nominee of such
Depositary to such Depositary or another nominee of such Depositary or by such Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Depositary for such series or a nominee of such successor Depositary. 

If at any time the Depositary for any Registered Securities of a series represented by one or more Registered Global Securities notifies the
Issuer that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for such Registered Securities or if at any time the Depositary for such Registered Securities shall no longer be eligible under Section 2.04, the Issuer shall appoint a successor
Depositary eligible under Section 2.04 with respect to such Registered Securities. If a successor Depositary eligible under Section 2.04 for such Registered Securities is not appointed by the Issuer within 90 days after the Issuer receives
such notice or becomes aware of such ineligibility, the Issuer’s election pursuant to Section 2.03 that such Registered Securities be represented by one or more Registered Global Securities shall no longer be effective and the Issuer will
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upon receipt of an Issuer Order for the authentication and delivery of definitive Securities of such series, will authenticate and deliver, Securities of such series in definitive registered form
without coupons, in any authorized denominations, in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of the Registered Global Security or Securities representing such Registered Securities in exchange for such Registered Global Security
or Securities. 
 The Issuer may at any time and in its sole discretion determine that the Registered Securities of any series issued in the
form of one or more Registered Global Securities shall no longer be represented by a Registered Global Security or Securities. In such event the Issuer will execute, and the Trustee, upon receipt of an Issuer Order for the authentication and
delivery of definitive Securities of such series, will authenticate and deliver, Securities of such series in definitive registered form without coupons, in any authorized denominations, in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount
of the Registered Global Security or Securities representing such Registered Securities, in exchange for such Registered Global Security or Securities. 

If specified by the Issuer pursuant to Section 2.03 with respect to Securities represented by a Registered Global Security, the Depositary
for such Registered Global Security may surrender such Registered Global Security in exchange in whole or in part for Securities of the same series in definitive registered form on such terms as are acceptable to the Issuer and such Depositary.
Thereupon, the Issuer shall execute, and the Trustee upon the receipt of an Issuer Order shall authenticate and deliver, without service charge, 

(i) to the Person specified by such Depositary a new Registered Security or Securities of the same series, of any authorized
denominations as requested by such Person, in an aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for such Person’s beneficial interest in the Registered Global Security; and 

(ii) to such Depositary a new Registered Global Security in a denomination equal to the difference, if any, between the
principal amount of the surrendered Registered Global Security and the aggregate principal amount of Registered Securities authenticated and delivered pursuant to clause (i) above. 

Upon the exchange of a Registered Global Security for Securities in definitive registered form without coupons, in authorized denominations,
such Registered Global Security shall be cancelled by the Trustee or an agent of the Issuer or the Trustee. Securities in definitive registered form without coupons issued in exchange for a Registered Global Security pursuant to this
Section 2.08 shall be registered in such nominee names and in such authorized denominations as the Depositary for such Registered Global Security, pursuant to instructions from its direct or indirect participants or otherwise, shall instruct
the Registrar or an agent of the Issuer or the Trustee. The Trustee or such agent shall deliver such Securities to or as directed by the Persons in whose names such Securities are so registered. 

All Securities issued upon any transfer or exchange of Securities shall be valid obligations of the Issuer, evidencing the same debt, and
entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities surrendered upon such transfer or exchange. 
 Notwithstanding
anything herein or in the terms of any series of Securities to the contrary, none of the Issuer, the Trustee or any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee (any of which, other than the Issuer, shall rely on an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion
of Counsel) shall be required to exchange any Bearer Security for a Registered Security if such exchange would result in adverse U.S. federal income tax consequences to the Issuer (such as, for example, the inability of the Issuer to deduct from its
income, as computed for U.S. federal income tax purposes, the interest payable on the Bearer Securities) under then applicable U.S. federal income tax laws. 

Section 2.09.    Mutilated, Defaced, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities. In case any temporary or
definitive Security or any Coupon appertaining to any Security shall become mutilated, defaced or be destroyed, lost or stolen, the Issuer in its discretion may execute, and upon the written request of any Authorized Signatory of the Issuer, the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver a new Security of the same series, maturity date, interest rate and original issue date, bearing a number or other distinguishing symbol not contemporaneously outstanding, in exchange and substitution for the
mutilated or defaced Security, or in lieu of and in substitution for the Security so destroyed, lost or stolen with Coupons corresponding to the Coupons appertaining to the Securities so mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen, or in exchange
or substitution for the Security to which such mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen Coupon appertained, with Coupons appertaining thereto corresponding to the Coupons so mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen. In every case the
applicant for a substitute Security or Coupon shall furnish to the Issuer and to the Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee such security or indemnity as may be required by them to indemnify and defend and to save each of them harmless
and, in every case of destruction, loss or theft, evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of such Security or Coupon and of the ownership thereof and in the case of mutilation or defacement shall surrender the Security and
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 Upon the issuance of any substitute Security or Coupon, the Issuer may require the payment
of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee or its agent) connected therewith. In case any Security or Coupon which
has matured or is about to mature or has been called for redemption in full shall become mutilated or defaced or be destroyed, lost or stolen, the Issuer may instead of issuing a substitute Security, pay or authorize the payment of the same or the
relevant Coupon (without surrender thereof except in the case of a mutilated or defaced Security or Coupon), if the applicant for such payment shall furnish to the Issuer and to the Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee such security or
indemnity as any of them may require to save each of them harmless, and, in every case of destruction, loss or theft, the applicant shall also furnish to the Issuer and the Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee evidence to their
satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of such Security or Coupon and of the ownership thereof. 
 Every substitute Security or
Coupon of any series issued pursuant to the provisions of this Section by virtue of the fact that any such Security or Coupon is destroyed, lost or stolen shall constitute an additional contractual obligation of the Issuer, whether or not the
destroyed, lost or stolen Security or Coupon shall be at any time enforceable by anyone and shall be entitled to all the benefits of (but shall be subject to all the limitations of rights set forth in) this Indenture equally and proportionately with
any and all other Securities or Coupons of such series duly authenticated and delivered hereunder. All Securities and Coupons shall be held and owned upon the express condition that, to the extent permitted by law, the foregoing provisions are
exclusive with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, defaced or destroyed, lost or stolen Securities and Coupons and shall preclude any and all other rights or remedies notwithstanding any law or statute existing or hereafter enacted
to the contrary with respect to the replacement or payment of negotiable instruments or other securities without their surrender. 

Section 2.10.    Cancellation of Securities; Disposition Thereof. All Securities and Coupons
surrendered for payment, redemption, registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Issuer or the Registrar or any agent of the Registrar, shall be delivered to the Trustee or its agent for cancellation or, if
surrendered to the Trustee, shall be cancelled by it; and no Securities or Coupons shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Indenture. The Trustee or its agent shall dispose of cancelled
Securities and Coupons held by it and deliver a certificate of disposition to the Issuer upon written request. If the Issuer or its agent shall acquire any of the Securities or Coupons, such acquisition shall not operate as a redemption or
satisfaction of the indebtedness represented by such Securities or Coupons unless and until the same are delivered to the Trustee or its agent for cancellation. 

Section 2.11.    Temporary Securities. Pending the preparation of definitive Securities for any series,
the Issuer may execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver temporary Securities for such series (printed, lithographed, typewritten or otherwise reproduced, in each case in form satisfactory to the Issuer). Temporary Securities of any
series shall be issuable as Registered Securities without Coupons, or as Bearer Securities with or without Coupons attached thereto, of any authorized denomination, and substantially in the form of the definitive Securities of such series but with
such omissions, insertions and variations as may be appropriate for temporary Securities, all as may be determined by the Issuer as evidenced by the execution and authentication thereof. Temporary Securities may contain such references to any
provisions of this Indenture as may be appropriate. Every temporary Security shall be executed by the Issuer and be authenticated by the Trustee upon the same conditions and in substantially the same manner, and with like effect, as the definitive
Securities. Without unreasonable delay the Issuer shall execute and shall furnish definitive Securities of such series and thereupon temporary Registered Securities of such series may be surrendered in exchange therefor without charge at each office
or agency to be maintained by the Issuer for that purpose pursuant to Section 3.02 and, in the case of Bearer Securities, at any agency maintained by the Issuer for such purpose as specified pursuant to Section 2.03, and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver in exchange for such temporary Securities of such series an equal aggregate principal amount of definitive Securities of the same series having authorized denominations and, in the case of Bearer Securities, having attached
thereto any appropriate Coupons. Until so exchanged, the temporary Securities of any series shall be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities of such series, unless otherwise established pursuant to
Section 2.03. The provisions of this Section are subject to any restrictions or limitations on the issue and delivery of temporary Bearer Securities of any series that may be established pursuant to Section 2.03 (including any provision
that Bearer Securities of such series initially be issued in the form of a single global Bearer Security to be delivered to a depositary or agency located outside the United States and the procedures pursuant to which definitive or global Bearer
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 ARTICLE 3 

COVENANTS OF THE ISSUER 

Section 3.01.    Payment of Principal and Interest. The Issuer covenants and agrees for the benefit of
each series of Securities that it will duly and punctually pay or cause to be paid the principal of, and interest on, each of the Securities of such series (together with any additional amounts payable pursuant to the terms of such Securities) at
the place or places, at the respective times and in the manner provided in such Securities and in the Coupons, if any, appertaining thereto and in this Indenture. The interest on Securities with Coupons attached (together with any additional amounts
payable pursuant to the terms of such Securities) shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of the several Coupons for such interest installments as are evidenced thereby as they severally mature. If any temporary Bearer Security
provides that interest thereon may be paid while such Security is in temporary form, the interest on any such temporary Bearer Security (together with any additional amounts payable pursuant to the terms of such Security) shall be paid, as to the
installments of interest evidenced by Coupons attached thereto, if any, only upon presentation and surrender thereof, and, as to the other installments of interest, if any, only upon presentation of such Securities for notation thereon of the
payment of such interest, in each case subject to any restrictions that may be established pursuant to Section 2.03. The interest on Registered Securities (together with any additional amounts payable pursuant to the terms of such Securities)
shall be payable only to or upon the written order of the Holders thereof and, at the option of the Issuer, may be paid by wire transfer or by mailing checks for such interest payable to or upon the written order of such Holders at their last
addresses as they appear on the registry books of the Issuer. 
 Section 3.02.    Offices for Payments,
Etc. So long as any Registered Securities are authorized for issuance pursuant to this Indenture or are outstanding hereunder, the Issuer will maintain in the United States of America, an office or agency where the Registered Securities
of each series may be presented for payment, where the Securities of each series may be presented for exchange as is provided in this Indenture and, if applicable, pursuant to Section 2.03 and where the Registered Securities of each series may
be presented for registration of transfer as in this Indenture provided. 
 The Issuer will maintain one or more offices or agencies in a
city or cities located outside the United States (including any city in which such an agency is required to be maintained under the rules of any stock exchange on which the Securities of such series are listed) where the Bearer Securities, if any,
of each series and Coupons, if any, appertaining thereto may be presented for payment. No payment on any Bearer Security or Coupon will be made upon presentation of such Bearer Security or Coupon at an agency of the Issuer within the United States
nor will any payment be made by transfer to an account in, or by mail to an address in, the United States unless pursuant to applicable United States laws and regulations then in effect such payment can be made without adverse tax consequences to
the Issuer. Notwithstanding the foregoing, payments in U.S. Dollars of Bearer Securities of any series and Coupons appertaining thereto which are payable in U.S. Dollars may be made at an agency of the Issuer maintained in the United States of
America if such payment in U.S. Dollars at each agency maintained by the Issuer outside the United States for payment on such Bearer Securities is illegal or effectively precluded by exchange controls or other similar restrictions. 

The Issuer will maintain in the United States of America, an office or agency where notices and demands to or upon the Issuer in respect of
the Securities of any series, the Coupons appertaining thereto or this Indenture may be served. 
 The Issuer will give to the Trustee
written notice of the location of each such office or agency and of any change of location thereof. In case the Issuer shall fail to maintain any agency required by this Section to be located in the United States of America, or shall fail to give
such notice of the location or of any change in the location of any of the above agencies, presentations and demands may be made and notices may be served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee; provided, however, no service of legal
process on the Issuer may be served at an office of the Trustee. 
 The Issuer may from time to time designate one or more additional
offices or agencies where the Securities of a series and any Coupons appertaining thereto may be presented for payment, where the Securities of that series may be presented for exchange as provided in this Indenture and pursuant to Section 2.03
and where the Registered Securities of that series may be presented for registration of transfer as in this Indenture provided, and the Issuer may from time to time rescind any such designation, as the Issuer may deem desirable or expedient;
provided, however, that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Issuer of its obligation to maintain the agencies provided for in this Section. The Issuer will give to the Trustee prompt written notice of any such
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 Section 3.03.    Appointment to Fill a Vacancy in Office of
Trustee. The Issuer, whenever necessary to avoid or fill a vacancy in the office of Trustee, will appoint, in the manner provided in Section 7.10, a Trustee, so that there shall at all times be a Trustee with respect to each series
of Securities hereunder. 
 Section 3.04.    Paying Agents. Whenever the Issuer shall appoint a
Paying Agent other than the Trustee or DBTCA. with respect to the Securities of any series (the “Paying Agent”), it will cause such Paying Agent to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such agent shall agree
with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section, 
 (a) that it will hold all sums received by it as such agent for the payment
of the principal of or interest on the Securities of such series (whether such sums have been paid to it by the Issuer or by any other obligor on the Securities of such series) in trust for the benefit of the Holders of the Securities of such
series, or Coupons appertaining thereto, if any, or of the Trustee, 
 (b) that it will give the Trustee notice of any failure by the Issuer
(or by any other obligor on the Securities of such series) to make any payment of the principal of or interest on the Securities of such series when the same shall be due and payable, and 

(c) that it will pay any such sums so held in trust by it to the Trustee upon the Trustee’s written request at any time during the
continuance of the failure referred to in clause 3.04(b) above. 
 The Issuer will, on or prior to 10 A.M. New York City time on each due
date of the principal of or interest on the Securities of such series, deposit with the Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay such principal or interest so becoming due, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Issuer will promptly notify
the Trustee of any failure to take such action. 
 If the Issuer shall act as its own Paying Agent with respect to the Securities of any
series, it will, on or before each due date of the principal of or interest on the Securities of such series, set aside, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Holders of the Securities of such series or the Coupons appertaining thereto
a sum sufficient to pay such principal or interest so becoming due. The Issuer will promptly notify the Trustee of any failure to take such action. 

The Issuer hereby appoints DBTCA to act as the initial Paying Agent, Registrar and Transfer Agent with respect to the Securities. 

Anything in this Section to the contrary notwithstanding, the agreement to hold sums in trust as provided in this Section is subject to the
provisions of Sections 11.02 and 11.03. 
 Section 3.05.    Written Statement to Trustee. The Issuer
will furnish to the Trustee on or before March 31 in each year (beginning with March 31, 2022) a brief certificate that complies with the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act (which need not comply with Section 12.05) from the
principal executive, financial or accounting officer of the Issuer stating that in the course of the performance by the signer of such Person’s duties as an officer of the Issuer such Person would normally have knowledge of any non-compliance by the Issuer in the performance of any covenants or conditions contained in this Indenture, stating whether or not such Person has knowledge of any such
non-compliance and, if so, specifying each such non-compliance of which the signer has knowledge and the nature thereof. 

Section 3.06. United Kingdom or Luxembourg Publications. In the event of the publication of any notice pursuant to
Section 5.11, 7.10(a), 7.11, 9.02, 11.03 or 13.02, the Issuer making such publication in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York shall also, to the extent that notice is required to be given to Holders of Securities of any series by
applicable English or Luxembourg law or stock exchange regulation, as evidenced by an Officers’ Certificate delivered to such party, make a similar publication in London, the United Kingdom or Luxembourg, as the case may be. 

ARTICLE 4 

SECURITYHOLDERS LISTS AND REPORTS BY THE
ISSUER AND THE TRUSTEE 
 Section 4.01. Issuer to Furnish Trustee
Information as to Names and Addresses of Securityholders. If and so long as the Trustee shall not be the Security registrar for the Securities of any series, the Issuer will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee, upon the
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require of the names and addresses of the Holders of the Registered Securities of such series pursuant to Section 312 of the Trust Indenture Act: 

(a) semi-annually not more than 15 days after each record date for the payment of interest on such Registered Securities, as hereinabove
specified, as of such record date and on dates to be determined pursuant to Section 2.03 for non-interest bearing Registered Securities in each year, and 

(b) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within 30 days after receipt by the Issuer of any such request as of a date not
more than 15 days prior to the time such information is furnished. 
 Section 4.02. Preservation and Disclosure of Securityholders
Lists. 
 (a) The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, all information as to the names and
addresses of the holders of each series of Securities contained in the most recent list furnished to it as provided in Section 4.01. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in Section 4.01 upon receipt of a new list so
furnished. 
 (b) The rights of Holders to communicate with other Holders with respect to the Indenture or the Securities are as provided by
the Trust Indenture Act. 
 (c) Neither the Issuer nor the Trustee will be held accountable by reason of any disclosure of information as to
names and addresses of Holders made pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act. 
 Section 4.03. Reports by the Issuer. The
Issuer covenants to file with the Trustee, within 15 days after the Issuer is required to file the same with the Commission, copies of the annual reports and of the information, documents, and other reports that the Issuer may be required to file
with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act or pursuant to Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act, provided, that (i) any failure by the Issuer to comply with this provision or, to the
extent automatically deemed to be included in this Indenture, Section 314(a) of the Trust Indenture Act, shall not constitute an event of default for purposes of any remedy set forth in Article 5 or that otherwise gives right to accelerate
of declare any Security issued hereunder due and payable, and (ii) only the Trustee may institute a legal proceeding against the Issuer to enforce the foregoing delivery obligation. Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the
Trustee is for informational purposes only and the Trustee’s receipt of such shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein. 

Section 4.04. Reports by the Trustee. Any Trustee’s report required under Section 313(a) of the Trust Indenture
Act shall be transmitted on or before January 15 in each year beginning January 15, 2022, as provided in Section 313(c) and Section 313(d) of the Trust Indenture Act, so long as any Securities are Outstanding hereunder, and shall
be dated as of a date convenient to the Trustee no more than 60 days prior thereto. 
 ARTICLE 5 

REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE AND SECURITYHOLDERS 

Section 5.01. No Defaults or Events of Default.There are no defaults or events of default with respect to any series of the
Securities, there is no right of acceleration in the case of any non-payment of principal of, interest on or other amounts owing under any series of Securities or a failure by the Issuer to perform any other
covenant under the Securities or under this Indenture, and under no circumstances may the Holders or the Trustee declare the principal amount of any series of the Securities and interest accrued thereon to be due and payable. If the Issuer becomes
subject to German insolvency proceedings, neither the Trustee (on behalf of the Holders for amounts due to them) nor any Holder will have any right to file a claim against the Issuer unless the competent insolvency court allows the filing of
subordinated claims that rank on parity with the claims in respect of the Securities. 
 Section 5.02. Collection Of Indebtedness By
Trustee; Trustee May Prove Debt. If the Issuer fails to make any payment of principal of, interest on, or other amounts owing under any series of the Securities at such time as such payment is required to be made pursuant to the terms of
such series of Securities (any such failure, a “Non-Payment Event”) and such Non-Payment Event is continuing, the Trustee, in its own name and as
trustee of an express trust, shall be entitled and empowered to pursue any available remedy by proceedings at law or in equity to collect any principal of and interest on the Securities of such series due and unpaid, or to enforce the performance of
any provision of the Securities of such series or this Indenture, and may prosecute any such action or proceedings to judgment or final decree, and may enforce any such judgment or final decree against the Issuer or other obligor upon the Securities
and collect in the manner provided by law out of the property of the Issuer or other obligor upon the Securities, wherever situated, the monies adjudged or decreed to be payable. 

  
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Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice or actual knowledge of a Non-Payment Event unless
a Responsible Officer of the Trustee receives written notice of such Non-Payment Event, including but not limited to notice by the Paying Agent in accordance with Section 3.05(b) hereof. 

In case there shall be pending proceedings relative to the Issuer or any other obligor upon the Securities under Title 11 of the United States
Code or any other applicable U.S. federal or state or non-U.S. bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law, or in case a receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization, liquidator, sequestrator
or similar official shall have been appointed for or taken possession of the Issuer or its property or such other obligor, or in case of any other comparable judicial proceedings relative to the Issuer or other obligor upon the Securities, or to the
creditors or property of the Issuer or such other obligor, the Trustee, irrespective of whether the principal of the Securities shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise, shall be entitled and empowered, by
intervention in such proceedings or otherwise, unless prohibited by applicable law and regulations: 
 (i) to file and prove
a claim or claims for the whole amount of principal and interest (or, if the Securities of any series are Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the terms of such series) owing and unpaid in
respect of the Securities of any series, and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any claim for reasonable compensation to the Trustee and each predecessor
Trustee, and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and for reimbursement of all expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee, except as a result of its negligence or willful
misconduct) and of the Securityholders allowed in any judicial proceedings relative to the Issuer or other obligor upon the Securities, or to the creditors or property of the Issuer or such other obligor, 

(ii) to vote on behalf of the Holders of the Securities of any series in any election of a trustee or a standby trustee in
arrangement, reorganization, liquidation or other bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings or Person performing similar functions in comparable proceedings, and 

(iii) to collect and receive any monies or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims, and to distribute all
amounts received with respect to the claims of the Securityholders and of the Trustee on their behalf; and any trustee, receiver, or liquidator, custodian or other similar official is hereby authorized by each of the Securityholders to make payments
to the Trustee, and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of payments directly to the Securityholders, to pay to the Trustee such amounts as shall be sufficient to cover reasonable compensation to the Trustee, each predecessor
Trustee and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee except as a result of its negligence or willful misconduct. 

Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or vote for or accept or adopt on behalf of any
Securityholder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Securities of any series or the rights of any Holder thereof, or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Securityholder in any
such proceeding except, as aforesaid, to vote for the election of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar Person. 
 All rights of action and of
asserting claims under this Indenture, or under any of the Securities of any series or Coupons appertaining to such Securities, may be enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the Securities of such series or Coupons appertaining to
such Securities or the production thereof on any trial or other proceedings relative thereto, and any such action or proceedings instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment,
subject to the payment of the expenses, disbursements and compensation of the Trustee, each predecessor Trustee and their respective agents and attorneys, shall be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities or Coupons appertaining to
such Securities in respect of which such action was taken. 
 In any proceedings brought by the Trustee (and also any proceedings involving
the interpretation of any provision of this Indenture to which the Trustee shall be a party) the Trustee shall be held to represent all the Holders of the Securities or Coupons appertaining to such Securities in respect to which such action was
taken, and it shall not be necessary to make any Holders of such Securities or Coupons appertaining to such Securities parties to any such proceedings. 

Section 5.03. Application of Proceeds. Subject to the provisions of Section 2.03 and Article 14, any monies or property
collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article in respect of any series shall be applied in the following order at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such monies on account of principal or interest, upon
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the payment, or issuing Securities of such series in reduced principal amounts in exchange for the presented Securities of like series if only partially paid, or upon surrender thereof if fully
paid: 
  

	 	FIRST:	 To the payment of costs and expenses applicable to such series in respect of which monies have been collected,
including reasonable compensation to the Trustee, Agent and each predecessor Trustee and their respective agents and attorneys and of all expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee, Agent and each predecessor Trustee of
this Indenture (except as a result of negligence or willful misconduct) pursuant to Section 7.06; 


  

	 	SECOND:	 In case the principal of the Securities of such series in respect of which monies have been collected shall not
have become and be then due and payable, to the payment of interest on the Securities of such series in default in the order of the maturity of the installments of such interest, with interest (to the extent that such interest has been collected by
the Trustee) upon the overdue installments of interest at the same rate as the rate of interest or Yield to Maturity (in the case of Original Issue Discount Securities) specified in such Securities, such payments to be made ratably to the Holders of
Securities, without discrimination or preference; 


  

	 	THIRD:	 In case the principal of the Securities of such series in respect of which monies have been collected shall
have become and shall be then due and payable, to the payment of the whole amount then owing and unpaid upon all the Securities of such series for principal and interest, with interest upon the overdue principal, and (to the extent that such
interest has been collected by the Trustee) upon overdue installments of interest at the same rate as the rate of interest or Yield to Maturity (in the case of Original Issue Discount Securities) specified in the Securities of such series; and in
case such monies shall be insufficient to pay in full the whole amount so due and unpaid upon the Securities of such series, then to the payment of such principal and interest or Yield to Maturity, without preference or priority of principal over
interest or Yield to Maturity, or of interest or Yield to Maturity over principal, or of any installments of interest over any other installments of interest, or of any Security of such series over any other Security of such series, ratably to the
aggregate of such principal and accrued and unpaid interest or Yield to Maturity; and 


  

	 	FOURTH:	 To the payment of the remainder, if any, to the Issuer or any other Person lawfully entitled thereto.



 Section 5.04. Suits for Enforcement. In case a Non-Payment
Event has occurred, has not been waived and is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce the rights vested in it by this Indenture by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual
to protect and enforce any of such rights, either at law or in equity or in bankruptcy or otherwise, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement contained in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted in this
Indenture or to enforce any other legal or equitable right vested in the Trustee by this Indenture or by law. 
 Section 5.05.
Restoration of Rights on Abandonment of Proceedings. In case the Trustee shall have proceeded to enforce any right under this Indenture and such proceedings shall have been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or shall have been
determined adversely to the Trustee, then and in every such case the Issuer and the Trustee shall be restored respectively to their former positions and rights hereunder, and all rights, remedies and powers of the Issuer, the Trustee and the
Securityholders shall continue as though no such proceedings had been taken. 
 Section 5.06. Limitations on Suits by
Securityholders. No Holder of any Security of any series or of any Coupon appertaining thereto shall have any right by virtue or by availing of any provision of this Indenture to institute any action or proceeding at law or in equity or
in bankruptcy or otherwise upon or under or with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official or for any other remedy hereunder, unless such Holder previously shall have
given to the Trustee written notice of default and of the continuance thereof, as hereinbefore provided, and unless also the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of each affected series then Outstanding
(treated as a single class) shall have made written request upon the Trustee to institute such action or proceedings in its own name as trustee hereunder and shall have offered to the Trustee such reasonable indemnity as it may require against the
costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred therein or thereby and the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity shall have failed to institute any such action or proceeding and no direction inconsistent
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Security or Coupon with every other taker and Holder and the Trustee, that no one or more Holders of Securities of any series or Coupons appertaining to such Securities shall have any right in
any manner whatever by virtue or by availing of any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other such Holder of Securities or Coupons appertaining to such Securities, or to obtain or seek to obtain priority
over or preference to any other such Holder or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal, ratable and common benefit of all Holders of Securities of the applicable series and Coupons
appertaining to such Securities. For the protection and enforcement of the provisions of this Section, each and every Securityholder and the Trustee shall be entitled to such relief as can be given either at law or in equity. 

Section 5.07.Unconditional Right of Securityholders to Institute Certain Suits. To the extent required by the Trust
Indenture Act, and subject to the subordination and the other provisions in the Securities but otherwise notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the right of any Holder of any Security or Coupon to receive payment of the principal of
and interest on such Security or Coupon, if any, on or after the respective due dates expressly provided for pursuant to the terms of the Securities or Coupon, or to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, if any, on or after such
respective dates, shall not be impaired or affected without the consent of such Holder. 
 Section 5.08.Powers and Remedies
Cumulative; Delay or Omission Not Waiver of Non-Payment Event. Except as provided in Section 5.06, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders
of Securities or Coupons is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter
existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy. 

No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of Securities or Coupons to exercise any right or power accruing upon any Non-Payment Event occurring and continuing as aforesaid shall impair any such right or power or shall be construed to be a waiver of any such Non-Payment Event or an
acquiescence therein; and, subject to Section 5.06, every power and remedy given by this Indenture or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders of Securities or Coupons may be exercised from time to time, and as often as shall be deemed
expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders of Securities or Coupons. 
 Section 5.09.Control by Holders of Securities.
Subject to Section 7.02(d), the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of each series affected (with all such series voting as a single class) at the time Outstanding shall have the right to direct the time,
method, and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series by this Indenture; provided that such direction
shall not be otherwise than in accordance with law and the provisions of this Indenture and provided further that (subject to the provisions of Section 7.01) the Trustee shall have the right to decline to follow any such direction if the
Trustee, being advised by counsel, shall determine that the action or proceeding so directed may not lawfully be taken or if the Trustee in good faith by its board, the executive committee, or a trust committee of directors or Responsible Officers
of the Trustee shall determine that the action or proceedings so directed would involve the Trustee in personal liability or if the Trustee in good faith shall so determine that the actions or forbearances specified in or pursuant to such direction
would be unduly prejudicial to the interests of Holders of the Securities of all series so affected not joining in the giving of said direction, it being understood that (subject to Section 7.01) the Trustee shall have no duty to ascertain
whether or not such actions or forbearances are unduly prejudicial to such Holders. 
 Nothing in this Indenture shall impair the right of
the Trustee in its discretion to take any action deemed proper by the Trustee and which is not inconsistent with such direction or directions by Securityholders. 

Section 5.10.Waiver of Past Defaults. The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of all
series at the time Outstanding with respect to which a Non-Payment Event shall have occurred and be continuing (voting as a single class) may on behalf of the Holders of all such Securities waive any past
default or Non-Payment Event and its consequences, except a default in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each Security affected.
In the case of any such waiver, the Issuer, the Trustee and the Holders of all such Securities shall be restored to their former positions and rights hereunder, respectively; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Non-Payment Event or impair any right consequent thereon. 
 Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease
to exist and be deemed to have been cured and not to have occurred, and any Non-Payment Event arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, and not to have occurred for every purpose of this Indenture;
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 Section 5.11.Trustee to Give Notice of Default; But May Withhold in Certain
Circumstances. The Trustee shall, within ninety days after the occurrence of a default with respect to the Securities of any series, give notice of all defaults with respect to that series known to the Trustee (i) if any Bearer
Securities of a series affected are then Outstanding, to the Holders thereof, (A) by mail to such Holders who have filed their names and addresses with the Trustee within the two years preceding the notice at such addresses as were so furnished
to the Trustee and (B) either through the customary notice provisions of the clearing system or systems through which beneficial interests in such Bearer Securities are owned if such Bearer Securities are held only in global form or by
publication at least once in an Authorized Newspaper in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York (and, if required by Section 3.06, at least once in an Authorized Newspaper in London, the United Kingdom or Luxembourg, as the case may be),
and (ii) if any Registered Securities of a series affected are then Outstanding, by mailing notice to the Holders of then Outstanding Registered Securities of each series affected at their addresses as they shall appear on the registry books,
unless in each case such Non-Payment Event shall have been cured before the mailing or publication of such notice; provided that, except in the case of a
Non-Payment Event, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as the board of directors, the executive committee, or a trust committee of directors or trustees and/or Responsible
Officers of the Trustee in good faith determines that the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the Securityholders of such series. 

Section 5.12.Right of Court to Require Filing of Undertaking to Pay Costs. All parties to this Indenture agree, and each
Holder of any Security or Coupon by its acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture or in any suit against the Trustee
for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable
attorneys’ fees, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit instituted by the
Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Securityholder or group of Securityholders of any series holding in the aggregate more than 10% in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of such series, or, in the case of any suit relating to or arising
under Article 5, 10% in aggregate principal amount of all Securities then Outstanding, or to any suit instituted by any Securityholder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of or interest on any Security on or after the due date
expressed in such Security or any date fixed for redemption. 
 ARTICLE 6 

RESOLUTION MEASURES 

Section 6.01.Securities Subject to Resolution Measures. 

(a) By acquiring any Securities, each Holder (including Beneficial Owners) shall be bound by and shall be deemed to consent to the imposition
of any Resolution Measure by the competent resolution authority. 
 (b) Under the relevant resolution laws and regulations as applicable to
the Issuer from time to time, the Securities may be subject to the powers exercised by the competent resolution authority to: 

(i) write down, including write down to zero, the claims for payment of the principal amount, the interest amount or any other
amount in respect of the Securities; 
 (ii) convert the Securities into ordinary shares of (A) the Issuer, (B) any
entity of the Issuer’s group or (C) any bridge bank, or other instruments qualifying as common equity tier 1 capital (and the issue to or conferral on the Holders (including the Beneficial Owners) of such ordinary shares or instruments);
and/or 
 (iii) apply any other resolution measure, including, but not limited to, (A) any transfer of the Securities to
another entity, (B) the amendment, modification or variation of the terms and conditions of the Securities or (C) the cancellation of the Securities; 

(each, a “Resolution Measure”). 

For the avoidance of doubt, any non-payment by the Issuer arising out of any such Resolution Measure
will not constitute a failure by the Issuer under the terms of the Securities or the Indenture to make a payment of principal of, interest on, or other amounts owing under the Securities. 

(c) By its acquisition of the Securities, each Holder (including each Beneficial Owner) shall be deemed irrevocably to have agreed: 

(i) to be bound by, to acknowledge and to accept any Resolution Measure and any amendment, modification or variation of the
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 (ii) that it will have no claim or other right against the Issuer arising
out of any Resolution Measure; and 
 (iii) that the imposition of any Resolution Measure will not constitute a default or an
event of default (A) under the Securities, (B) under the Indenture or (C) for the purpose of, but only to the fullest extent permitted by, the Trust Indenture Act (including, without limitation, Section 315(b) (Notice of Default)
and Section 315(c) (Duties of the Trustee in Case of Default) of the Trust Indenture Act) and applicable law. 
 (d) The terms and
conditions of the Securities shall continue to apply in relation to the residual principal amount of, or outstanding amount payable in respect of, the Securities, subject to any modification of the amount of interest payable, if any, to reflect the
reduction of the principal amount, and any further modification of the terms that the competent resolution authority may decide in accordance with applicable laws and regulations relating to the resolution of banks, banking group companies, credit
institutions and/or investment firms incorporated in the Federal Republic of Germany. 
 (e) No repayment of any then-current principal
amount of the Securities or payment of interest or any other amount thereon (to the extent of the portion thereof affected by the imposition of a Resolution Measure) shall become due and payable after the imposition of any Resolution Measure by the
competent resolution authority, unless such repayment or payment would be permitted to be made by the Issuer under the laws and regulations of the Federal Republic of Germany then applicable to the Issuer. 

(f) By its acquisition of the Securities, each Holder (including each Beneficial Owner) waives, to the fullest extent permitted by the Trust
Indenture Act and applicable law, any and all claims against the Trustee and the Agents for, agrees not to initiate a suit against the Trustee or the Agents in respect of, and agrees that the Trustee and the Agents shall not be liable for, any
action that the Trustee or any of the Agents takes, or abstains from taking, in either case in accordance with the imposition of a Resolution Measure by the competent resolution authority with respect to the Securities. 

(g) Upon the imposition of a Resolution Measure by the competent resolution authority with respect to the Securities, the Issuer shall provide
a written notice directly to the Holders in accordance with Section 12.04 of the Indenture as soon as practicable regarding such imposition of a Resolution Measure by a competent resolution authority for purposes of notifying Holders of such
occurrence. The Issuer shall also deliver a copy of such notice to the Trustee and the Agents for information purposes only, and the Trustee and the Agents shall be entitled to rely, and will not be liable for relying, on the competent resolution
authority and the Resolution Measure identified in such notice. Any delay or failure by the Issuer to give notice shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any Resolution Measure nor the effects thereof on the Securities. 

(h) If any Securities are called or being called for redemption or repurchase by the Issuer, but the competent resolution authority has imposed
a Resolution Measure with respect to the Securities prior to the payment of the redemption or repurchase amount, the relevant redemption or repurchase notice, if any, shall be automatically rescinded and shall be of no force and effect, and no
payment of the redemption or repurchase amount will be due and payable. 
 (i) Upon the imposition of any Resolution Measure by the competent
resolution authority, the Trustee shall not be required to take any further directions from Holders of the Securities under Section 5.09 of the Indenture, which section authorizes Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Securities at the time Outstanding to direct certain actions relating to the Securities, and if any such direction was previously given under Section 5.09 of the Indenture to the Trustee by the Holders, it shall automatically cease to be
effective, be null and void and have no further effect. The Indenture shall impose no duties, obligations or liabilities upon the Trustee or the Agents whatsoever with respect to the imposition of any Resolution Measure by the competent resolution
authority, and the Trustee and the Agents shall be fully protected in acting or refraining from acting in accordance with a Resolution Measure. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if, following completion of the imposition of a Resolution Measure by the
competent resolution authority, the Securities remain outstanding (for example, if the imposition of a Resolution Measure results in only a partial write-down of the principal of the Securities), then the Trustee’s and the Agents’ duties
under the Indenture shall remain applicable with respect to the Securities following such completion to the extent that the Issuer, the Trustee and the Agents agree pursuant to a supplemental indenture, unless the Issuer, the Trustee and the Agents
agree that a supplemental indenture is not necessary. 
 (j) By the acquisition of the Securities, each Holder (including each Beneficial
Owner) shall be deemed irrevocably to have (i) consented to the imposition of any Resolution Measure as it may be imposed without any prior notice by the competent resolution authority of its decision to exercise such power with respect to the
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implement the imposition of any Resolution Measure with respect to the Securities as it may be imposed, without any further action or direction on the part of such Holders of the Securities, the
Trustee or the Agents, and (iii) acknowledged and accepted that the provisions contained in this Section 6.01 are exhaustive on the matters described this Section 6.01 to the exclusion of any other agreements, arrangements or
understandings between it and the Issuer relating to the terms and conditions of the Securities. 
 (k) If the competent resolution authority
imposes a Resolution Measure with respect to less than the total outstanding principal amount of the Securities, unless the Trustee or the Agents are otherwise instructed by the Issuer or the competent resolution authority, any cancellation, write-off or conversion into equity made in respect of the Securities pursuant to the Resolution Measure will be made on a substantially pro rata basis among the Securities of any series. 

(l) Any obligations of the Holders to indemnify the Trustee and the Agents under this Indenture shall survive the imposition of a Resolution
Measure by the competent resolution authority with respect to the Issuer or the Securities. To the extent not otherwise precluded by a Resolution Measure, the Issuer’s obligations to indemnify the Trustee and the Agents in accordance with
Sections 7.02 and 7.06 shall survive the imposition of a Resolution Measure by the competent resolution authority with respect to the Issuer or the Securities. 

ARTICLE 7 

CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE AND AGENT 

Section 7.01. Duties and Responsibilities of the Trustee and Agent; During Default; Prior to Default. With respect to the
Holders of any series of Securities issued hereunder, the Trustee and Agent, prior to the occurrence of a Non-Payment Event with respect to the Securities of a particular series and after the curing or waiving
of all Non-Payment Events which may have occurred with respect to such series, undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture. In case a Non-Payment Event with respect to the Securities of a series has occurred (which has not been cured or waived) the Trustee shall exercise with respect to such series of Securities such of the rights and powers
vested in it by this Indenture, and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such person’s own affairs. 

No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the Trustee or Agent from liability for its own negligent action, its own
negligent failure to act or its own willful misconduct, except that: 
 (a) prior to the occurrence of a
Non-Payment Event with respect to the Securities of any series and after the curing or waiving of all such Non-Payment Events with respect to such series which may have
occurred: 
 (i) the duties and obligations of the Trustee and Agent with respect to the Securities of any series shall be
determined solely by the express provisions of this Indenture, and the Trustee and Agent shall not be liable except for the performance of such duties and obligations as are specifically set forth in this Indenture, and no implied covenants or
obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee or Agent; and 
 (ii) in the absence of bad faith on the
part of the Trustee or Agent, the Trustee and Agent may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon any statements, certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee or Agent and
conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; but in the case of any such statements, certificates or opinions which by any provision hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee or Agent, the Trustee or Agent shall be under a
duty to examine the same to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture; 
 (b) the Trustee or Agent shall
not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer or Responsible Officers of the Trustee or Agent, unless it shall be proved that the Trustee or Agent was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts; and 

(c) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the
direction of the Holders pursuant to Section 5.09 relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this Indenture.

 None of the provisions contained in this Indenture shall require the Trustee or Agent to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur
personal financial liability in the performance of any of its duties or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if an adequate indemnity against such liability is not reasonably assured to it. 

The provisions of this Section 7.01 are in furtherance of and subject to Section 315 of the Trust Indenture Act. 

  
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 Section 7.02. Certain Rights of the Trustee and Agent. In furtherance of
and subject to the Trust Indenture Act, and subject to Section 7.01: 
 (a) before the Trustee acts or refrains from acting in response
to any instruction of the Issuer, it may require an Officer’s Certificate, an Opinion of Counsel or both and the Trustee and Agent may rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, Officers’
Certificate or any other certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, coupon, security or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by
the proper party or parties; 
 (b) any request, direction, order or demand of the Issuer mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by
an Officers’ Certificate (unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically prescribed); and any resolution of the Board may be evidenced to the Trustee by a copy thereof certified by the secretary or an assistant secretary of the
Issuer; 
 (c) the Trustee or Agent may consult with counsel and any written advice or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete
authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted to be taken by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon in accordance with such advice or Opinion of Counsel; 

(d) the Trustee or Agent shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the trusts or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request,
order or direction of any of the Securityholders pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture, unless such Securityholders shall have offered to the Trustee or Agent security or indemnity acceptable to the Trustee or Agent, as the case may be,
against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred therein or thereby; 
 (e) the Trustee or Agent shall not be liable for
any action taken or omitted by it in good faith and believed by it to be authorized or within the discretion, rights or powers conferred upon it by this Indenture; 

(f) prior to the occurrence of a Non-Payment Event hereunder and after the curing or waiving of all Non-Payment Events, the Trustee or Agent shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request,
consent, order, approval, appraisal, bond, debenture, note, coupon, security, or other paper or document; 
 (g) the Trustee or Agent may
execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or attorneys not regularly in its employ and the Trustee or Agent shall not be responsible for any act and omissions on the part of
any such agent or attorney appointed with due care by it hereunder; 
 (h) In no event shall the Trustee or the Agents be responsible or
liable for special, punitive, indirect, or consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever (including, but not limited to, loss of profit) irrespective of whether the Trustee has been advised of the likelihood of such loss or damage and
regardless of the form of action; and 
 (i) The right of the Trustee to perform any discretionary act identified as such in this Indenture,
shall not be construed as a duty. 
 Section 7.03. Trustee Not Responsible for Recitals, Disposition of Securities or Application of
Proceeds Thereof. The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the Trustee’s certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Issuer, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness
of the same. Neither Trustee nor Agent makes any representation as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities or Coupons. Neither Trustee nor Agent shall be accountable for the use or application by the Issuer of any of
the Securities or of the proceeds thereof. 
 Section 7.04. Trustee and Agents May Hold Securities or Coupons; Collections,
Etc. The Trustee, Agent or any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee or Agent, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities or Coupons with the same rights it would have if it were not the Trustee or
Agent or such agent and may otherwise deal with the Issuer and receive, collect, hold and retain collections from the Issuer with the same rights it would have if it were not the Trustee, Agent or such other agent of the Issuer or the Trustee. 

Section 7.05. Monies Held by Trustee. Subject to the provisions of Section 11.03 hereof, all monies received by the
Trustee or Paying Agent shall, until used or applied as herein provided, be held in trust for the purposes for which they were received, but need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by mandatory provisions of law.
Neither the Trustee nor Paying Agent nor any agent of the Issuer the Trustee or Paying Agent shall be under any liability for interest on any monies received by it hereunder. 

Section 7.06. Compensation and Indemnification of Trustee and Paying Agent and Their Prior Claim. The Issuer covenants and agrees
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be entitled to, the compensation agreed in writing between the Issuer and the Trustee or Agent (which shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an
express trust) and the Issuer covenants and agrees to pay or reimburse the Trustee, Agent and each predecessor Trustee and Agent upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by or on behalf of it in
accordance with any of the provisions of this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its counsel and of all agents and other Persons not regularly in its employ) except any such expense, disbursement
or advance as may arise from its negligence or willful misconduct. The Issuer also covenants to indemnify the Trustee, Agent and each predecessor Trustee and Agent and all of their respective officers, directors and employees, for and to hold it
harmless against, any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or willful misconduct on its part, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of this Indenture or the trusts hereunder and its duties hereunder,
including the costs and expenses of defending itself against or investigating any claim of liability in the premises. The obligations of the Issuer under this Section to compensate and indemnify the Trustee, Agent and each predecessor Trustee and
Agent and to pay or reimburse the Trustee, Agent and each predecessor Trustee and Agent for expenses, disbursements and advances shall constitute additional indebtedness, and a claim prior to the claims of the Holders under the Securities, to secure
the obligations of the Issuer to the Trustee and the Agents. The parties hereto agree that when the Trustee or the Agents render any services hereunder in connection with a bankruptcy or insolvency of the Issuer, those services shall be treated as
expenses of administration. The rights and protections of this Section hereunder shall survive the satisfaction, discharge or termination of this Indenture, or the earlier removal or resignation of the Trustee or any Agent. 

Section 7.07. Right of Trustee and Agent to Rely on Officers’ Certificate, Etc. Subject to Sections 7.01
and 7.02, whenever in the administration of the trusts of this Indenture the Trustee or Agent shall deem it necessary or desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking or suffering or omitting any action hereunder, such matter
(unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of negligence or willful misconduct on the part of the Trustee or Agent, be deemed to be conclusively proved and established by an Officers’
Certificate delivered to the Trustee or Agent, and such certificate, in the absence of negligence or willful misconduct on the part of the Trustee or Agent, shall be full warrant to the Trustee or Agent for any action taken, suffered or omitted by
it under the provisions of this Indenture upon the faith thereof. 
 Section 7.08. Indentures not Creating Potential Conflicting
Interests for the Trustee or Agent. The following indenture is hereby specifically described for the purposes of Section 310(b)(1) of the Trust Indenture Act: this Indenture with respect to the Securities of any other series. 

Section 7.09. Persons Eligible for Appointment as Trustee. The Trustee for each series of Securities hereunder shall at all
times be a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of America or of any state or the District of Columbia having a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000, and which is authorized under such laws to
exercise corporate trust powers and is subject to supervision or examination by U.S. federal, state or District of Columbia authority. If such corporation publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of
the aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition
so published. In case at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, the Trustee shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in Section 7.10. 

The provisions of this Section 7.09 are in furtherance of and subject to Section 310(a) of the Trust Indenture Act. 

Section 7.10. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor Trustee. (a) The Trustee, or any trustee or trustees
hereafter appointed, may at any time resign with respect to one or more or all series of Securities by giving written notice of resignation to the Issuer and (i) if any Bearer Securities of a series affected are then Outstanding, by giving
notice of such resignation to the Holders thereof (A) by mail to such Holders who have filed their names and addresses with the Trustee within the two years preceding the notice at such addresses as were so furnished to the Trustee and
(B) either through the customary notice provisions of the clearing system or systems through which beneficial interests in such Bearer Securities are owned if such Bearer Securities are held only in global form or by publication at least once
in an Authorized Newspaper in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York (and, if required by Section 3.06, at least once in an Authorized Newspaper in London, the United Kingdom or Luxembourg, as the case may be), and (ii) if any
Registered Securities of a series affected are then Outstanding, by mailing notice of such resignation to the Holders of then Outstanding Registered Securities of each series affected at their addresses as they shall appear on the registry books.
Upon receiving such notice of resignation, the Issuer shall promptly appoint a successor trustee or trustees with respect to the applicable series by written instrument in duplicate, executed by two Authorized Signatories, one copy of which
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be delivered to the resigning Trustee and one copy to the successor trustee or trustees. If no successor trustee shall have been so appointed with respect to any series and have accepted
appointment within 30 days after the mailing of such notice of resignation, the resigning trustee may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor trustee, or any Securityholder who has been a bona fide Holder of a
Security or Securities of the applicable series for at least six months may, subject to the provisions of Section 5.12, on behalf of itself and all others similarly situated, petition any such court for the appointment of a successor trustee.
Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe, appoint a successor trustee. 
 (b) In case at any
time any of the following shall occur: 
 (i) the Trustee shall fail to comply with the provisions of Section 310(b) of
the Trust Indenture Act with respect to any series of Securities after written request therefor by the Issuer or by any Securityholder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security or Securities of such series for at least six months; or 

(ii) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of Section 7.09 of this Indenture and
Section 310(a) of the Trust Indenture Act and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Issuer or by any Securityholder; or 

(iii) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting with respect to any series of Securities, or shall be adjudged a bankrupt or
insolvent, or a receiver or liquidator of the Trustee or of its property shall be appointed, or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or
liquidation; 
 then, in any such case, the Issuer may remove the Trustee with respect to the applicable series of Securities and appoint a successor trustee
for such series by written instrument, in duplicate, executed by Authorized Signatories of the Issuer, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the Trustee so removed and one copy to the successor trustee, or, subject to the provisions of
Section 315(e) of the Trust Indenture Act, any Security holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security or Securities of such series for at least six months may on behalf of itself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of
competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor trustee with respect to such series. Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe, remove the Trustee and appoint a
successor trustee. 
 (c) The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time outstanding
may at any time remove the Trustee with respect to Securities of such series and appoint a successor trustee with respect to the Securities of such series by delivering to the Trustee so removed, to the successor trustee so appointed and to the
Issuer the evidence provided for in Section 8.01 of the action in that regard taken by the Securityholders. 
 (d) Any resignation or
removal of the Trustee with respect to any series and any appointment of a successor trustee with respect to such series pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section 7.10 shall become effective upon acceptance of appointment by the
successor trustee as provided in Section 7.11. 
 Section 7.11. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor Trustee. Any
successor trustee appointed as provided in Section 7.10 shall execute and deliver to the Issuer and to its predecessor trustee an instrument accepting such appointment hereunder, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the predecessor
trustee with respect to all or any applicable series shall become effective and such successor trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all rights, powers, duties and obligations with respect to such series of
its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as trustee for such series hereunder; but, nevertheless, on the written request of the Issuer or of the successor trustee, upon payment of its charges then unpaid, the trustee
ceasing to act shall, subject to Section 11.03, pay over to the successor trustee all monies at the time held by it hereunder and shall execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor trustee all such rights, powers, duties and
obligations. Upon request of any such successor trustee, the Issuer shall execute any and all instruments in writing for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor trustee all such rights and powers. Any trustee ceasing to
act shall, nevertheless, retain a prior claim upon all property or funds held or collected by such trustee to secure any amounts then due it pursuant to the provisions of Section 7.06. 

If a successor trustee is appointed with respect to the Securities of one or more (but not all) series, the Issuer, the predecessor Trustee and
each successor trustee with respect to the Securities of any applicable series shall execute and deliver an indenture supplemental hereto which shall contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the rights,
powers, trusts and duties of the predecessor trustee with respect to the Securities of any series as to which the predecessor trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested in the predecessor trustee, and shall add to or change any of the
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necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or in such supplemental indenture shall
constitute such Trustees co-trustees of the same trust and that each such Trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts under separate indentures. 

No successor trustee with respect to any series of Securities shall accept appointment as provided in this Section 7.11 unless at the time
of such acceptance such successor trustee shall be qualified under Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act and eligible under the provisions of Section 7.09. 

Upon acceptance of appointment by any successor trustee as provided in this Section 7.11, the Issuer shall give notice thereof (i) if
any Bearer Securities of a series affected are then Outstanding, to the Holders thereof, (A) by mail to such Holders who have filed their names and addresses with the Trustee within the two years preceding the notice at such addresses as were
so furnished to the Trustee and (B) either through the customary notice provisions of the clearing system or systems through which beneficial interests in such Bearer Securities are owned if such Bearer Securities are held only in global form
or by publication at least once in an Authorized Newspaper in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York (and, if required by Section 3.06, at least once in an Authorized Newspaper in London, the United Kingdom or Luxembourg, as the case
may be), and (ii) if any Registered Securities of a series affected are then Outstanding, by mailing notice to the Holders of then Outstanding Registered Securities of each series affected at their addresses as they shall appear on the registry
books. If the acceptance of appointment is substantially contemporaneous with the resignation, then the notice called for by the preceding sentence may be combined with the notice called for by Section 7.10. If the Issuer fails to give such
notice within ten days after acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee, the successor trustee shall cause such notice to be given at the expense of the Issuer. 

Section 7.12. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business of Trustee. Any corporation into which the Trustee
may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the
corporate trust business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided that such corporation shall be qualified under Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act and eligible under the provisions of
Section 7.09, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto, anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding. 

In case at the time such successor to the Trustee shall succeed to the trusts created by this Indenture any of the Securities of any series
shall have been authenticated but not delivered, any such successor to the Trustee may adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor Trustee and deliver such Securities so authenticated; and, in case at that time any of the Securities
of any series shall not have been authenticated, any successor to the Trustee may authenticate such Securities either in the name of any predecessor hereunder or in the name of the successor Trustee; and in all such cases such certificate shall have
the full force which it is anywhere in the Securities of such series or in this Indenture provided that the certificate of the Trustee shall have; provided, that the right to adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor Trustee
or to authenticate Securities of any series in the name of any predecessor Trustee shall apply only to its successor or successors by merger, conversion or consolidation. 

Section 7.13. Appointment of Authenticating Agent and Calculation Agent. As long as any Securities of a series remain
Outstanding, the Trustee may, by an instrument in writing, appoint with the approval of the Issuer (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld) an authenticating agent (the “Authenticating Agent”) which shall be authorized to act
on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities, including Securities issued upon exchange, registration of transfer, partial redemption or pursuant to Section 2.09. Securities of each such series authenticated by such Authenticating Agent
shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture and shall be valid and obligatory for all purposes as if authenticated by the Trustee. Whenever reference is made in this Indenture to the authentication and delivery of Securities of any series by
the Trustee or to the Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication, such reference shall be deemed to include authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent for such series and a Certificate of Authentication
executed on behalf of the Trustee by such Authenticating Agent. Such Authenticating Agent shall at all times be a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of America or of any State, authorized under such laws to
exercise corporate trust powers, having a combined capital and surplus of at least $5,000,000 (determined as provided in Section 7.09 with respect to the Trustee) and subject to supervision or examination by U.S. federal or state authority.

 Any corporation into which any Authenticating Agent may be merged or converted, or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation
resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which any Authenticating Agent shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to the corporate agency business of any Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be the Authenticating Agent with
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of the Trustee or such Authenticating Agent. Any Authenticating Agent may at any time, and if it shall cease to be eligible shall, resign by giving written notice of resignation to the Trustee
and to the Issuer. 
 Upon receiving such a notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time any Authenticating Agent
shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section 7.13 with respect to one or more series of Securities, the Trustee shall upon receipt of an Issuer Order appoint a successor Authenticating Agent and the Issuer shall
provide notice of such appointment to all Holders of Securities of such series in the manner and to the extent provided in Section 12.04. Any successor Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder shall become vested with
all rights, powers, duties and responsibilities of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as Authenticating Agent. The Issuer agrees to pay to the Authenticating Agent for such series from time to time reasonable
compensation. The Authenticating Agent for the Securities of any series shall have no responsibility or liability for any action taken by it as such at the direction of the Trustee. 

Sections 7.02, 7.03, 7.04, 7.06, 7.09 and 8.03 shall be applicable to any Authenticating Agent. 

The Issuer may, by a separate agreement, appoint a calculation agent (“Calculation Agent”) with respect to one or more series
of Securities. 
 Pursuant to this Section 7.13, DBTCA is hereby appointed to act as the initial Authenticating Agent with respect to
the Securities. 
 Section 7.14. USA Patriot Act. The parties hereto acknowledge that in order to help the United States
government fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering activities, pursuant to Federal regulations that became effective on October 1, 2003 (Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act), all financial institutions are required to obtain, verify,
record and update information that identifies each person establishing a relationship or opening an account with Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas. To the extent permitted by law, the parties to this Indenture agree that they will provide to
Trustee and the Agents such information as it may reasonably request in order for Trustee and the Agents to satisfy the requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act, including but not limited to the name, address, tax identification number and other
information that will allow it to identify the individual or entity who is establishing the relationship or opening the account and may also ask for formation documents such as articles of incorporation or other identifying documents to be provided.

 Section 7.15. Force Majeure. The Trustee or Agents shall not incur any liability nor shall they be responsible for not
performing or delay in performing any act or fulfilling any duty, obligation or responsibility hereunder by reason of any occurrence beyond the control of the Trustee or Agents (including but not limited to any act or provision of any present or
future law or regulation or governmental authority, any act of God; earthquakes; fires; floods; or war, civil or military unrest, local or national disturbance or disaster, any act of terrorism, sabotage; epidemics or pandemics; interruptions;
accidents; labor disputes; acts of civil or military authority or governmental actions; or the unavailability of the Federal Reserve Bank wire, facsimile, telex or other wire or communication facility). 

Section 7.16. Waiver of Jury Trial. EACH OF THE ISSUER, THE TRUSTEE, EACH HOLDER AND EACH OF THE AGENTS HEREBY IRREVOCABLY
WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS INDENTURE, THE SECURITIES OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.  

ARTICLE 8 

CONCERNING THE SECURITYHOLDERS 

Section 8.01. Evidence of Action Taken by Securityholders. Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by a specified percentage in principal amount of the Securityholders of any or all series may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar
tenor signed by such specified percentage of Securityholders in person or by agent duly appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to
the Trustee. Proof of execution of any instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Sections 7.01 and 7.02) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Issuer, if made in
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 Section 8.02. Proof of Execution of Instruments and of Holding of Securities.
Subject to Sections 7.01 and 7.02, the execution of any instrument by a Securityholder or its agent or proxy may be proved in the following manner: 

(a) The fact and date of the execution by any Holder of any instrument may be proved by the certificate of any notary public or other officer
of any jurisdiction authorized to take acknowledgments of deeds or administer oaths that the person executing such instruments acknowledged to it the execution thereof, or by an affidavit of a witness to such execution sworn to before any such
notary or other such officer. Where such execution is by or on behalf of any legal entity other than an individual, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of the authority of the person executing the same. The fact of
the holding by any Holder of an Bearer Security of any series, and the identifying number of such Security and the date of its holding the same, may be proved by the production of such Security or by a certificate executed by any trust company,
bank, banker or recognized securities dealer wherever situated satisfactory to the Trustee, if such certificate shall be deemed by the Trustee to be satisfactory. Each such certificate shall be dated and shall state that on the date thereof a
Security of such series bearing a specified identifying number was deposited with or exhibited to such trust company, bank, banker or recognized securities dealer by the Person named in such certificate. Any such certificate may be issued in respect
of one or more Bearer Securities of one or more series specified therein. The holding by the Person named in any such certificate of any Bearer Securities of any series specified therein shall be presumed to continue for a period of one year from
the date of such certificate unless at the time of any determination of such holding (1) another certificate bearing a later date issued in respect of the same Securities shall be produced, or (2) the Security of such series specified in
such certificate shall be produced by some other Person, or (3) the Security of such series specified in such certificate shall have ceased to be Outstanding. Subject to Sections 7.01 and 7.02, the fact and date of the execution of any such
instrument and the amount and numbers of Securities of any series held by the Person so executing such instrument and the amount and numbers of any Security or Securities for such series may also be proven in accordance with such reasonable rules
and regulations as may be prescribed by the Trustee for such series or in any other manner which the Trustee for such series may deem sufficient. 

(b) In the case of Registered Securities, the ownership of such Securities shall be proved by the Security register or by a certificate of the
Security registrar. 
 The Issuer may set a record date for purposes of determining the identity of Holders of Registered Securities of any
series entitled to vote or consent to any action referred to in Section 8.01, which record date may be set at any time or from time to time by notice to the Trustee, for any date or dates (in the case of any adjournment or reconsideration) not
more than 60 days nor less than five days prior to the proposed date of such vote or consent, and thereafter, notwithstanding any other provisions hereof, with respect to Registered Securities of any series, only Holders of Registered Securities of
such series of record on such record date shall be entitled to so vote or give such consent or revoke such vote or consent. 

Section 8.03. Holders to be Treated as Owners. The Issuer, the Trustee, Agent and any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee may
deem and treat the Person in whose name any Security shall be registered upon the Security register for such series as the absolute owner of such Security (whether or not such Security shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notation of ownership
or other writing thereon) for the purpose of receiving payment of or on account of the principal of and, subject to the provisions of this Indenture, interest on such Security and for all other purposes; and neither the Issuer nor the Trustee nor
any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee shall be affected by any notice to the contrary. The Issuer, the Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee may treat the Holder of any Bearer Security and the Holder of any Coupon as the absolute owner
of such Bearer Security or Coupon (whether or not such Bearer Security or Coupon shall be overdue) for the purpose of receiving payment thereof or on account thereof and for all other purposes and neither the Issuer, the Trustee, nor any agent of
the Issuer or the Trustee shall be affected by any notice to the contrary. All such payments so made to any such Person, or upon such Person order, shall be valid, and, to the extent of the sum or sums so paid, effectual to satisfy and discharge the
liability for monies payable upon any such Security or Coupon. 
 Section 8.04. Securities Owned by Issuer Deemed Not
Outstanding. In determining whether the Holders of the requisite aggregate principal amount of Outstanding Securities of any or all series have concurred in any direction, consent or waiver under this Indenture, Securities which are owned
by the Issuer or any other obligor on the Securities with respect to which such determination is being made or by any Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with the Issuer or any other
obligor on the Securities with respect to which such determination is being made shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding for the purpose of any such determination, except that for the purpose of determining whether the Trustee shall be
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regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee’s right so to act with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee is not the Issuer or
any other obligor upon the Securities or any Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with the Issuer or any other obligor on the Securities. In case of a dispute as to such right, the
advice of counsel shall be full protection in respect of any decision made by the Trustee in accordance with such advice. Upon request of the Trustee, the Issuer shall furnish to the Trustee promptly an Officers’ Certificate listing and
identifying all Securities, if any, known by the Issuer to be owned or held by or for the account of any of the above-described Persons; and, subject to Sections 7.01 and 7.02, the Trustee shall be entitled to accept such Officers’ Certificate
as conclusive evidence of the facts therein set forth and of the fact that all Securities not listed therein are Outstanding for the purpose of any such determination. 

Section 8.05. Right of Revocation of Action Taken. At any time prior to (but not after) the evidencing to the Trustee, as
provided in Section 8.01, of the taking of any action by the Holders of the percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of any or all series, as the case may be, specified in this Indenture in connection with such action, any
Holder of a Security the serial number of which is shown by the evidence to be included among the serial numbers of the Securities the Holders of which have consented to such action may, by filing written notice at the Corporate Trust Office and
upon proof of holding as provided in this Article, revoke such action so far as concerns such Security. Except as aforesaid any such action taken by the Holder of any Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future
Holders and owners of such Security and of any Securities issued in exchange or substitution therefor or on registration of transfer thereof, irrespective of whether or not any notation in regard thereto is made upon any such Security. Any action
taken by the Holders of the percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of any or all series, as the case may be, specified in this Indenture in connection with such action shall be conclusively binding upon the Issuer, the Trustee
and the Holders of all the Securities affected by such action. 
 ARTICLE 9 

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES 

Section 9.01. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Securityholders. Subject to the prior consent of the competent
supervisory or resolution authority in respect of Outstanding Securities of any series, if required under the CRR or other applicable laws and regulations for the recognition of the Securities as Tier 2 capital, the Issuer and the Trustee may from
time to time and at any time enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for one or more of the following purposes: 
 (a) to
evidence the succession of another corporation to the Issuer, or successive successions, and the assumption by the successor corporation of the covenants, agreements and obligations of the Issuer pursuant to Article 10; 

(b) to add to the covenants of the Issuer such further covenants, restrictions, conditions or provisions as the Issuer and the Trustee shall
consider to be for the protection of the Holders of Securities or Coupons; 
 (c) to cure any ambiguity or to correct or supplement any
provision contained herein or in any supplemental indenture which may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision contained herein or in any supplemental indenture, or to make any other provisions as the Issuer may deem necessary or
desirable, provided that no such action shall adversely affect the interests of the Holders of the Securities or Coupons; 
 (d) to
establish the forms or terms of Securities of any series or of the Coupons appertaining to such Securities as permitted by Sections 2.01 and 2.03; 

(e) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder by a successor trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more
series and to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one trustee, pursuant to the requirements of Section 7.11; and

 (f) to give effect to any variation to the terms of the Securities as a result of the imposition of any Resolution Measure. The Trustee is
hereby authorized to join with the Issuer in the execution of any such supplemental indenture, to make any further appropriate agreements and stipulations which may be therein contained, but the Trustee shall not be obligated to enter into any such
supplemental indenture which affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties, liabilities or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise. 

Any supplemental indenture authorized by the provisions of this Section may be executed without the consent of the Holders of any of the
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 Section 9.02. Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Securityholders.
Subject to the prior consent of the competent supervisory authority in respect of Outstanding Securities of any series, if required under the CRR or other applicable laws and regulations for the recognition of the Securities as Tier 2 capital,
and with the consent (evidenced as provided in Article 8) of the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of all series affected by such supplemental indenture (voting as one
class), the Issuer, when authorized by a resolution of its Board (which resolution may provide general terms or parameters for such action and may provide that the specific terms of such action may be determined in accordance with or pursuant to an
Issuer Order), and the Trustee may, from time to time and at any time, enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this
Indenture or of any supplemental indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each such series or of the Coupons appertaining to such Securities; provided, that no such supplemental indenture shall
(a) (i) change the final maturity of any Security, (ii) reduce the principal amount thereof, (iii) reduce the rate or change the time of payment of interest thereon, (iv) reduce any amount payable on redemption thereof,
(v) make the principal thereof (including any amount in respect of original issue discount), or interest thereon payable in any coin or currency other than that provided in the Securities and Coupons or in accordance with the terms thereof,
(vi) modify or amend any provisions for converting any currency into any other currency as provided in the Securities or Coupons or in accordance with the terms thereof, (vii) reduce the amount of the principal of an Original Issue
Discount Security that would be provable in bankruptcy pursuant to Section 5.02, (viii) modify or amend any provisions relating to the conversion or exchange of the Securities or Coupons for securities of the Issuer or of other entities or
other property (or the cash value thereof), including the determination of the amount of securities or other property (or cash) into which the Securities shall be converted or exchanged, other than as provided in the antidilution provisions or other
similar adjustment provisions of the Securities or Coupons or otherwise in accordance with the terms thereof, (ix) alter the provisions of Section 12.11 or 12.12 or impair or affect the right of any Securityholder to institute suit for the
payment thereof or, if the Securities provide therefor, any right of repayment at the option of the Securityholder, (x) modify the provisions of this Indenture with respect to the subordination of the Securities in a manner adverse to the
Holders, in each case without the consent of the Holder of each Security so affected; or (b) reduce the aforesaid percentage of Securities of any series, the consent of the Holders of which is required for any such supplemental indenture,
without the consent of the Holders of each Security so affected. 
 A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any covenant or
other provision of this Indenture which has expressly been included solely for the benefit of one or more particular series of Securities, or which modifies the rights of Holders of Securities of such series, or of Coupons appertaining to such
Securities, with respect to such covenant or provision, shall be deemed not to affect the rights under this Indenture of the Holders of Securities of any other series or of the Coupons appertaining to such Securities. 

Upon the request of the Issuer, and upon the filing with the Trustee of evidence of the consent of the Holders of the Securities as aforesaid
and other documents, if any, required by Section 8.01, the Trustee shall join with the Issuer in the execution of such supplemental indenture unless such supplemental indenture affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties, liabilities or
immunities under this Indenture or otherwise, in which case the Trustee may in its discretion, but shall not be obligated to, enter into such supplemental indenture. 

It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Securityholders under this Section to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental
indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such consent shall approve the substance thereof. 
 Promptly after the execution by the Issuer and
the Trustee of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Section, the Trustee shall give notice thereof (i) if any Bearer Securities of a series affected are then 

Outstanding, to the Holders thereof, (A) by mail to such Holders who have filed their names and addresses with the Trustee within the two
years preceding the notice at such addresses as were so furnished to the Trustee and (B) either through the customary notice provisions of the clearing system or systems through which beneficial interests in such Bearer Securities are owned if
such Bearer Securities are held only in global form or by publication at least once in an Authorized Newspaper in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, (and, if required by Section 3.06, at least once in an Authorized Newspaper in
London, the United Kingdom or Luxembourg, as the case may be), (ii) if any Registered Securities of a series affected are then Outstanding, by mailing notice thereof by first class mail to the Holders of then Outstanding Registered Securities
of each series affected at their addresses as they shall appear on the registry books, and in each case such notice shall set forth in general terms the substance of such supplemental indenture. Any failure of the Trustee to give such notice, or any
defect therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any such supplemental indenture. 

  
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 Section 9.03. Effect of Supplemental Indenture. Upon the execution of any
supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions hereof, this Indenture shall be and be deemed to be modified and amended in accordance therewith and the respective rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities under this
Indenture of the Trustee, the Issuer and the Holders of Securities of each series affected thereby shall thereafter be determined, exercised and enforced hereunder subject in all respects to such modifications and amendments, and all the terms and
conditions of any such supplemental indenture shall be and be deemed to be part of the terms and conditions of this Indenture for any and all purposes. 

Section 9.04. Documents to be Given to Trustee. The Trustee, subject to the provisions of Sections 7.01 and 7.02, may
receive an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article 9 complies with the applicable provisions of this Indenture. 

Section 9.05. Notation on Securities in Respect of Supplemental Indentures. Securities of any series authenticated and delivered
after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Article may bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee for such series as to any matter provided for by such supplemental indenture or as to any action taken
by Securityholders. If the Issuer or the Trustee shall so determine, new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Issuer, to any modification of this Indenture contained in any such supplemental indenture may be
prepared by the Issuer, authenticated by the Trustee and delivered in exchange for the Securities of such series then Outstanding. 

ARTICLE 10 

CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE OR CONVEYANCE 

Section 10.01. Successor Corporation Substituted. In case of any merger or consolidation or sale, lease or conveyance of all or
substantially all of the Issuer’s assets to any other Person, the successor legal entity or the Person which acquires by sale, lease or conveyance substantially all the assets of the Issuer (if other than the Issuer) may succeed to and be
substituted for the Issuer, with the same effect as if it had been named herein; provided that no such succession or substitution shall occur unless it is effected in a manner as prescribed by applicable laws and regulations and the competent
supervisory or resolution authority has raised no objection to or has approved of, as the case may be, such succession or substitution. Such successor corporation may, subject to all the terms, conditions and limitations provided in this Indenture,
cause to be signed, and may issue either in its own name or in the name of the Issuer prior to such succession any or all holders of the Securities issuable hereunder which together with any Coupons appertaining thereto theretofore shall not have
been signed by the Issuer and delivered to the Trustee; and, upon the order of such successor corporation, instead of the Issuer, the Trustee shall authenticate and shall deliver any Securities together with any Coupons appertaining thereto which
previously shall have been signed and delivered by the officers of the Issuer to the Trustee for authentication, and any Securities which such successor corporation thereafter shall cause to be signed and delivered to the Trustee for that purpose.
All of the Securities so issued together with any Coupons appertaining thereto shall in all respects have the same legal rank, be subject to the imposition of Resolution Measures, and benefit under this Indenture as the Securities theretofore or
thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of this Indenture as though all of such Securities had been issued at the date of the execution hereof. 

In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, lease or conveyance such changes in phrasing and form (but not in substance) may be made in
the Securities and Coupons thereafter to be issued as may be appropriate. 
 In the event of any such sale or conveyance (other than a
conveyance by way of lease) the Issuer or any successor corporation which shall theretofore have become such in the manner described in this Article shall be discharged from all obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the Securities and
may be liquidated and dissolved. 
 ARTICLE 11 

SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE; UNCLAIMED
MONIES 
 Section 11.01. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. (a) If at any time (i) the
Issuer shall have paid or caused to be paid the principal of and interest on all the Securities of any series Outstanding hereunder and all unmatured Coupons appertaining thereto (other than Securities of such series and Coupons appertaining thereto
which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.09) as and when the same shall have become due and payable, or (ii) the Issuer shall have delivered to the Trustee for cancellation all
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(other than any Securities of such series and Coupons appertaining thereto which shall have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which shall have been replaced or paid as provided in
Section 2.09), then this Indenture shall cease to be of further effect (except as to (i) rights of registration of transfer and exchange of Securities of such Series and of Coupons appertaining thereto and the Issuer’s right of
optional redemption, if any, (ii) substitution of mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities or Coupons, (iii) rights of holders of Securities and Coupons appertaining thereto to receive payments of principal thereof and
interest thereon, upon the original stated due dates therefor, (iv) the rights, obligations, duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder and the Issuer’s obligations related thereto, and (v) the obligations of the Issuer under
Section 3.02) and the Trustee, on demand of the Issuer accompanied by an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel and at the cost and expense of the Issuer, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging such satisfaction of and
discharging this Indenture; provided, that the rights of Holders of the Securities and Coupons to receive amounts in respect of principal of and interest on the Securities and Coupons held by them shall not be delayed longer than required by
then-applicable mandatory rules or policies of any securities exchange upon which the Securities are listed. The Issuer agrees to reimburse the Trustee for any costs or expenses thereafter reasonably and properly incurred and to compensate the
Trustee for any services thereafter reasonably and properly rendered by the Trustee in connection with this Indenture or the Securities of such series. 

Section 11.02. Repayment Of Monies Held By Paying Agent. In connection with the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture
with respect to Securities of any series, all monies then held by any Paying Agent under the provisions of this Indenture with respect to such series of Securities shall, upon demand of the Issuer, be repaid to it or paid to the Trustee and
thereupon such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such monies. 
 Section 11.03. Return of
Monies Held by Trustee and Paying Agent Unclaimed for Two Years. Any monies deposited with or paid to the Trustee or any Paying Agent for the payment of the principal of or interest on any Security of any series or Coupons attached
thereto and not applied but remaining unclaimed for two years after the date upon which such principal or interest shall have become due and payable, shall, upon the written request of the Issuer and unless otherwise required by mandatory provisions
of applicable escheat or abandoned or unclaimed property law, be repaid to the Issuer by the Trustee for such series or such Paying Agent, and the Holder of the Securities of such series and of any Coupons appertaining thereto shall, unless
otherwise required by mandatory provisions of applicable escheat or abandoned or unclaimed property laws, thereafter look only to the Issuer for any payment which such Holder may be entitled to collect, and all liability of the Trustee or any Paying
Agent with respect to such monies shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment with respect to monies deposited with it for any payment (a) in respect
of Registered Securities of any series, shall at the expense of the Issuer, mail by first-class mail to Holders of such Securities at their addresses as they shall appear on the Security register, and (b) in respect of Bearer Securities of any
series, shall at the expense of the Issuer either give through the customary notice provisions of the clearing system or systems through which beneficial interests in such Bearer Securities are owned if such Bearer Securities are held only in global
form or cause to be published once, in an Authorized Newspaper in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York (and if required by Section 3.06, once in an Authorized Newspaper in London, the United Kingdom or Luxembourg, as the case may be),
notice, that such monies remain and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than thirty days from the date of such mailing or publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to the Issuer. 

ARTICLE 12 

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS 

Section 12.01. Incorporators, Stockholders, Officers and Directors of Issuer Exempt From Individual Liability. No recourse
under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement contained in this Indenture, or in any Security, or because of any indebtedness evidenced thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, as such or against any past, present or future stockholder,
officer or director, as such, of the Issuer or of any successor, either directly or through the Issuer or any successor, under any rule of law, statute or constitutional provision or by the enforcement of any assessment or by any legal or equitable
proceeding or otherwise, all such liability being expressly waived and released by the acceptance of the Securities and the Coupons appertaining thereto by the Holders thereof and as part of the consideration for the issue of the Securities and the
Coupons appertaining thereto. 
 Section 12.02. Provisions of Indenture for the Sole Benefit of Parties and Holders of Securities and
Coupons. Nothing in this Indenture, in the Securities or in the Coupons appertaining thereto, expressed or implied, shall give or be construed to give to any person, firm or corporation, other than the parties hereto and


  
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their successors and the Holders of the Securities or Coupons, if any, any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture or under any covenant or provision herein contained, all
such covenants and provisions being for the sole benefit of the parties hereto and their successors and of the Holders of the Securities or Coupons, if any. 

Section 12.03. Successors and Assigns of Issuer Bound by Indenture. All the covenants, stipulations, promises and agreements
in this Indenture contained by or in behalf of the Issuer shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not. 

Section 12.04. Notices and Demands on Issuer, Trustee and Holders of Securities and Coupons. Any notice or demand which by any
provision of this Indenture is required or permitted to be given or served by the Trustee or by the Holders of Securities or Coupons to or on the Issuer may be given or served by being deposited postage prepaid, first-class mail or by overnight
delivery (except as otherwise specifically provided herein) addressed (until another address of the Issuer is filed by the Issuer with the Trustee) to Deutsche Bank Americas, c/o Office of the Corporate Secretary, 60 Wall Street, Mail Stop
NYC60-3701, New York, New York 10005. Any notice, direction, request or demand by the Issuer or any Holder of Securities or Coupons to or upon the Trustee shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or served by being deposited postage prepaid,
first-class mail or by overnight delivery (except as otherwise specifically provided herein) addressed (until another address of the Trustee is filed by the Trustee with the Issuer) to Wilmington Trust, National Association, 1100 North Market
Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19890. 
  

			
	If to the Paying Agent or Registrar:	  	Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas 
Trust and Agency Services 
60 Wall Street, 24th Floor 
Mail Stop: NYC60-2405 
New York, New York 10005 
Fax:
732-578-4635 
Attn: Corporates Team – Deutsche Bank AG

 Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of Registered Securities, such notice shall be sufficiently
given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder entitled thereto, at its last address on the books of the Registrar, including in the case of a change of address by the
Trustee, Issuer or Agent. In any case where notice to such Holders is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect
to other Holders. Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice, either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice.
Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with the Trustee, but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such waiver. 

In case, by reason of the suspension of or irregularities in regular mail service, it shall be impracticable to mail or send by overnight
delivery notice to the Issuer when such notice is required to be given pursuant to any provision of this Indenture, then any manner of giving such notice as shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee shall be deemed to be a sufficient giving of
such notice. 
 Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or any Security, where this Indenture or any Security provides for
notice of any event (including any notice of redemption) to a Holder of a global Security (whether by mail or otherwise), such notice shall be sufficiently given if given to the Depositary for such Security (or its designee) pursuant to the
customary procedures of such Depositary. 
 Section 12.05. Officers’ Certificates and Opinions of Counsel;
Statements to be Contained Therein. Upon any application or demand by the Issuer to the Trustee to take any action under any of the provisions of this Indenture, the Issuer shall furnish to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate
stating that all conditions precedent provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with and an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such counsel all such conditions precedent have been complied with,
except that in the case of any such application or demand as to which the furnishing of such documents is specifically required by any provision of this Indenture relating to such particular application or demand, no additional certificate or
opinion need be furnished. 
 Each certificate or opinion provided for in this Indenture and delivered to the Trustee with respect to
compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include (a) a statement that the person making such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition, (b) a brief statement as to the nature and scope
of the examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such certificate or opinion are based, (c) a statement that, in the opinion of such person, such Person has made such


  
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examination or investigation as is necessary to enable such Person to express an opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with and (d) a statement as to
whether or not, in the opinion of such person, such condition or covenant has been complied with. 
 Any certificate, statement or opinion of
an officer of the Issuer may be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of or representations by counsel, unless such officer knows that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to the matters
upon which such Person’s certificate, statement or opinion may be based as aforesaid are erroneous, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know that the same are erroneous. Any certificate, statement or opinion of counsel may be based,
insofar as it relates to factual matters, information with respect to which is in the possession of the Issuer, upon the certificate, statement or opinion of or representations by an officer or officers of the Issuer, unless such counsel knows that
the certificate, statement or opinion or representations with respect to the matters upon which such Person’s certificate, statement or opinion may be based as aforesaid are erroneous, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know that the
same are erroneous. 
 Any certificate, statement or opinion of an officer of the Issuer or of counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to
accounting matters, upon a certificate or opinion of or representations by an accountant or firm of accountants in the employ of the Issuer, unless such officer or counsel, as the case may be, knows that the certificate or opinion or representations
with respect to the accounting matters upon which such Person’s certificate, statement or opinion may be based as aforesaid are erroneous, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know that the same are erroneous. 

Any certificate or opinion of any independent firm of public accountants filed with and directed to the Trustee shall contain a statement that
such firm is independent. 
 Section 12.06. Payments Due on Saturdays, Sundays or Holidays. Unless otherwise provided in
Securities of a series, if the date of maturity of interest on or principal of the Securities of any series or any Coupons appertaining thereto or the date fixed for redemption or repayment of any such Security or Coupon shall not be a Business Day,
then payment of interest or principal need not be made on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on the date of maturity or the date fixed for redemption, and no interest shall accrue
for the period after such date. 
 Section 12.07. Conflict of Any Provision of Indenture With Trust Indenture Act. If and
to the extent that any provision of this Indenture limits, qualifies or conflicts with the duties imposed by, or with another provision (an “incorporated provision”) included in this Indenture by operation of, Sections 310 to 318,
inclusive, of the Trust Indenture Act, such imposed duties or incorporated provision shall control. 
 Section 12.08. Governing
Law. This Indenture and each Security and Coupon shall be deemed to be a contract under the laws of the State of New York, and for all purposes shall be construed in accordance with the laws of such State, except with respect to the
provisions relating to the subordination of the Securities set forth in the second and third paragraph of Section 2.03, which shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany. 

Section 12.09. Counterparts. The Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an
original; but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. Counterparts may be delivered via facsimile, electronic mail (including .pdf or any electronic signature complying with the U.S. federal ESIGN Act of 2000,
e.g., www.docusign.com) or other transmission method, and any counterpart so delivered shall be deemed to have been duly and validly delivered and be valid and effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Indenture. Each of the
parties to this Indenture represents that it has undertaken commercially reasonable steps to verify the identity of each individual person executing any such counterparts via electronic signature on behalf of such party and has and will maintain
sufficient records of the same. This Indenture shall become effective when each party shall have received a counterpart hereof signed by all of the other parties to this Indenture. Effect of Headings. The Article and Section headings herein
and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof. 
 Section 12.10. Securities in a Non-U.S. Currency. Unless otherwise specified in an Officers’ Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 2.03 of this Indenture with respect to a particular series of Securities, whenever for
purposes of this Indenture any action may be taken by the Holders of a specified percentage in aggregate principal amount of Securities of all series or all series affected by a particular action at the time Outstanding and, at such time, there are
Outstanding Securities of any series which are denominated in a coin or currency other than U.S. Dollars, then the principal amount of Securities of such series which shall be deemed to be Outstanding for the purpose of taking such action shall be
that amount of U.S. Dollars that could be obtained for such amount at the Market Exchange Rate. For purposes of this Section 12.10, “Market Exchange Rate” shall mean the noon U.S. Dollar buying rate in New York City for cable
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Federal Reserve Bank of New York. If such Market Exchange Rate is not available for any reason with respect to such currency, the Issuer shall appoint a foreign exchange agent to calculate, in
its sole discretion and without liability on its part, such quotation of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as of the most recent available date, or quotations from one or more major banks in The City of New York or in the country of issue of the
currency in question, or such other quotations as such foreign exchange agent shall deem appropriate. The provisions of this paragraph shall apply in determining the equivalent principal amount in respect of Securities of a series denominated in a
currency other than U.S. Dollars in connection with any action taken by Holders of Securities pursuant to the terms of this Indenture including without limitation any determination contemplated in Section 5.01. 

All decisions and determinations regarding the Market Exchange Rate or any alternative determination provided for in the preceding paragraph
shall be in its sole discretion and shall, in the absence of manifest error, be conclusive to the extent permitted by law for all purposes and irrevocably binding upon the Issuer and all Holders. 

Section 12.11. Submission to Jurisdiction. The Issuer agrees that any legal suit, action or proceeding arising out of or
based upon this Indenture may be instituted in any State or Federal court in the Borough of Manhattan, City and State of New York, and, to the fullest extent permitted by law, waives any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of
venue of any such proceeding, and irrevocably submits to the jurisdiction of such court in any suit, action or proceeding. The Issuer has appointed DB USA Corporation, c/o Office of the Corporate Secretary, 60 Wall Street, Mail Stop NYC60-3701, New
York, New York 10005,as its authorized agent (the “Authorized Agent”) upon which process may be instituted in any U.S. state or federal court in the Borough of Manhattan, City and State of New York and the Issuer
expressly accepts the jurisdiction of any such court in respect of such action. Such appointment shall be irrevocable unless and until a successor authorized agent, located or with an office in the Borough of Manhattan, City and State of New York,
shall have been appointed by the Issuer and such appointment shall have been accepted by such successor authorized agent. The Issuer represents and warrants that the Authorized Agent has agreed to act as said agent for service of process, and the
Issuer agrees to take any and all action, including the filing of any and all documents and instruments, that may be necessary to continue such appointment in full force and effect as aforesaid. Service of process upon the Authorized Agent and
written notice of such service to the Issuer shall be deemed, in every respect, effective service of process upon the Issuer. 

Section 12.12. Judgment Currency. The Issuer agrees, to the fullest extent that it may effectively do so under applicable
law, that (a) if for the purpose of obtaining judgment in any court it is necessary to convert the sum due in respect of the principal of or interest on the Securities of any series (the “Required Currency”) into a currency in
which a judgment will be rendered (the “Judgment Currency”), the rate of exchange used shall be the rate at which in accordance with normal banking procedures the Trustee could purchase in The City of New York the Required Currency
with the Judgment Currency on the day on which final unappealable judgment is entered, unless such day is not a New York Banking Day, then, to the extent permitted by applicable law, the rate of exchange used shall be the rate at which in accordance
with normal banking procedures the Trustee could purchase in The City of New York the Required Currency with the Judgment Currency on the New York Banking Day preceding the day on which final unappealable judgment is entered and (b) its
obligations under this Indenture to make payments in the Required Currency (i) shall not be discharged or satisfied by any tender, or any recovery pursuant to any judgment (whether or not entered in accordance with subsection (a)), in any
currency other than the Required Currency, except to the extent that such tender or recovery shall result in the actual receipt, by the payee, of the full amount of the Required Currency expressed to be payable in respect of such payments,
(ii) shall be enforceable as an alternative or additional cause of action for the purpose of recovering in the Required Currency the amount, if any, by which such actual receipt shall fall short of the full amount of the Required Currency so
expressed to be payable and (iii) shall not be affected by judgment being obtained for any other sum due under this Indenture. For purposes of the foregoing, “New York Banking Day” means any day except a Saturday, Sunday or a
legal holiday in The City of New York or a day on which banking institutions in The City of New York are authorized or required by law or executive order to close. 

Section 12.13. Severability. If a court of competent jurisdiction declares any provision hereof invalid, it will be ineffective only to
the extent of such invalidity, so that the remainder of the provision and Agreement will continue in full force and effect. 
 Section 12.14.
Entire Agreement. This Agreement and the exhibits hereto set forth the entire agreement and understanding of the parties related to this transaction and supersedes all prior agreements and understandings, oral or written. 

  
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 ARTICLE 13 

REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES 

Section 13.01. Applicability of Article; Approval by Competent Supervisory Authority. The provisions of this Article shall
be applicable to the Securities of any series which are redeemable before their maturity except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 2.03 for Securities of such series. Any redemption of Securities of any series prior to their
stated maturity shall be at the option of the Issuer only and subject to (i) receipt by the Issuer of prior written approval of the competent supervisory authority, and any redemption shall not occur before five years after the date of
issuance, except where the conditions set out in Article 78(4) of the CRR are met; (ii) compliance with any other regulatory requirements; and (iii) the requirements set forth in Section 2.03. 

Section 13.02. Notice of Redemption; Partial Redemptions. Notice of redemption to the Holders of Registered Securities of any
series to be redeemed as a whole or in part at the option of the Issuer shall be given by mailing notice of such redemption by first class mail, postage prepaid, to such Holders of Securities of such series at their last addresses as they shall
appear upon the registry books at least 30 days and not more than 60 days prior to the date fixed for redemption, or within such other redemption notice period as has been designated for any Securities of such series pursuant to Section 2.03 or
2.04 (the “Redemption Notice Period”). Notice of redemption to the Holders of Bearer Securities to be redeemed as a whole or in part, who have filed their names and addresses with the Trustee within two years preceding such notice
of redemption, shall be given by mailing notice of such redemption, by first class mail, postage prepaid, at least 30 and not more than 60 days prior to the date fixed for redemption or within any applicable Redemption Notice Period to such Holders
at such addresses as were so furnished to the Trustee (and, in the case of any such notice given by the Issuer, the Trustee shall make such information available to the Issuer for such purpose). Notice of redemption to all other Holders of Bearer
Securities shall be published by the Issuer in an Authorized Newspaper in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York (and, if required by Section 3.06, in an Authorized Newspaper in London, the United Kingdom or Luxembourg, as the case may
be), in each case, once in each of three successive calendar weeks, the first publication to be not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the date fixed for redemption or within any applicable Redemption Notice Period; provided that notice to
Holders of Bearer Securities held only in global form may be made, at the option of the Issuer, through the customary notice provisions of the clearing system or systems through which beneficial interests in such Bearer Securities are owned. Any
notice which is mailed in the manner herein provided shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not the Holder receives the notice. Failure to give notice by mail, or any defect in the notice to the Holder of any Security of
a series designated for redemption as a whole or in part shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any other Security of such series. 

The notice of redemption to each such Holder shall specify, the principal amount of each Security of such series held by such Holder to be
redeemed, the CUSIP number, the date fixed for redemption, the redemption price (or if not then ascertainable, the manner of calculation thereof), the place or places of payment, that payment will be made upon presentation and surrender of such
Securities and, in the case of Securities with Coupons attached thereto, of all Coupons appertaining thereto maturing after the date fixed for redemption, that interest accrued to the date fixed for redemption will be paid as specified in such
notice and that on and after said date interest thereon or on the portions thereof to be redeemed will cease to accrue. In case any Security of a series is to be redeemed in part only the notice of redemption shall state the portion of the principal
amount thereof to be redeemed and shall state that on and after the date fixed for redemption, upon surrender of such Security, a new Security or Securities of such series in principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion thereof will be issued.

 The notice of redemption of Securities of any series to be redeemed at the option of the Issuer shall be given by the Issuer or, at the
Issuer’s request, by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Issuer. 
 Unless the notice of redemption is rescinded in
accordance with the terms of the Securities, on or before the redemption date specified in the notice of redemption given as provided in this Section, the Issuer will deposit with the Trustee or with one or more Paying Agents (or, if the Issuer is
acting as its own Paying Agent, set aside, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 3.04) an amount of money or other property sufficient to redeem on the redemption date all the Securities of such series so called for redemption at
the appropriate redemption price, together with accrued interest to the date fixed for redemption. The Issuer will deliver to the Trustee at least 45 days prior to the date fixed for redemption or no more than 60 days prior to the first day of any
applicable Redemption Notice Period an Officers’ Certificate stating the aggregate principal amount of Securities to be redeemed. In case of a redemption at the election of the Issuer prior to the expiration of any restriction on such
redemption, the Issuer shall deliver to the Trustee, prior to the giving of any notice of redemption to Holders pursuant to this Section, an Officers’ Certificate stating that such restriction has been complied with. 

  
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 If less than all the Securities of a series are to be redeemed, the Registrar shall select,
in such manner as it shall deem appropriate and fair, Securities of such Series to be redeemed in whole or in part. Securities may be redeemed in part in multiples equal to the minimum authorized denomination for Securities of such series or any
multiple thereof. The Registrar shall promptly notify the Issuer in writing of the Securities of such series selected for redemption and, in the case of any Securities of such series selected for partial redemption, the principal amount thereof to
be redeemed. For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities of any series shall relate, in the case of any Security redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the
portion of the principal amount of such Security which has been or is to be redeemed.  
 Section 13.03. Payment of
Securities Called For Redemption. Unless the notice of redemption is rescinded in accordance with the terms of the Securities, if notice of redemption has been given as above provided, the Securities or portions of Securities specified in
such notice shall become due and payable on the date and at the place stated in such notice at the applicable redemption price, together with interest accrued to the date fixed for redemption, and on and after said date (unless the Issuer shall
default in the payment of such Securities at the redemption price, together with interest accrued to said date) interest on the Securities or portions of Securities so called for redemption shall cease to accrue, and the unmatured Coupons, if any,
appertaining thereto shall be void, and, except as provided in Sections 7.05 and 11.03, such Securities shall cease from and after the date fixed for redemption to be entitled to any benefit or security under this Indenture, and the Holders thereof
shall have no right in respect of such Securities except the right to receive the redemption price thereof and unpaid interest to the date fixed for redemption. On presentation and surrender of such Securities at a place of payment specified in said
notice, together with all Coupons, if any, appertaining thereto maturing after the date fixed for redemption, said Securities or the specified portions thereof shall be paid and redeemed by the Issuer at the applicable redemption price, together
with interest accrued thereon to the date fixed for redemption; provided that payment of interest becoming due on or prior to the date fixed for redemption shall be payable in the case of Securities with Coupons attached thereto, to the
Holders of the Coupons for such interest upon surrender thereof, and in the case of Registered Securities, to the Holders of such Registered Securities registered as such on the relevant record date subject to the terms and provisions of Sections
2.03 and 2.07 hereof. 
 If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender thereof for redemption, the principal
shall, until paid or duly provided for, bear interest from the date fixed for redemption at the rate of interest or Yield to Maturity (in the case of an Original Issue Discount Security) borne by such Security. 

If any Security with Coupons attached thereto is surrendered for redemption and is not accompanied by all appurtenant Coupons maturing after
the date fixed for redemption, the surrender of such missing Coupon or Coupons may be waived by the Issuer and the Trustee, if there be furnished to each of them such security or indemnity as they may require to hold each of them harmless. 

Upon presentation of any Security other than a Registered Global Security redeemed in part only, the Issuer shall execute and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver to or on the order of the Holder thereof, at the expense of the Issuer, a new Security or Securities of such series, of authorized denominations, in principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the Security so
presented. 
 Section 13.04. Exclusion of Certain Securities From Eligibility for Selection for Redemption. Securities
shall be excluded from eligibility for selection for redemption if they are identified by registration and certificate number in an Officers’ Certificate delivered to the Trustee at least 40 days prior to the last date on which notice of
redemption may be given as being owned of record and beneficially by, and not pledged or hypothecated by either (a) the Issuer or (b) an entity specifically identified in such written statement as directly or indirectly controlling or
controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with the Issuer. 
 ARTICLE 14 

EFFECTS OF SUBORDINATION 

Section 14.01. Notice to the Trustee. (a) The Issuer shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee within five days after
the occurrence of any insolvency, bankruptcy, receivership, liquidation, reorganization, arrangement or similar proceeding of the Issuer within the meaning of Section 2.03 or any default in the payment of principal of, interest on, or other amounts
owing under the Securities. Upon any payment or distribution of assets of the Issuer referred to in this Article 14, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section 315(a) through 315(b) of the Trust Indenture Act, and the Holders of the
Securities shall be entitled to rely upon any order or decree made by any court of competent jurisdiction in which any such dissolution, winding up, liquidation or reorganization proceeding affecting the affairs of the Issuer is pending or a
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bankruptcy, receiver, assignee for the benefit of creditors or other liquidating trustee or agent or other Person making any such payment or distribution, delivered to the Trustee or to the
Holders of Securities, for the purpose of ascertaining the Persons entitled to participate in such payment or distribution, the holders of the Priority Claims or other indebtedness of the Issuer, the amount thereof or payable thereon, the amount or
amounts paid or distributed thereon and all other facts pertinent thereto or to this Article 14. 
 (b) In the event that the Trustee
determines, in good faith, that further evidence is required with respect to the right of any Person as a holder with a Priority Claim to participate in any payment or distribution pursuant to this Section 2.03, the Trustee may request such Person
to furnish evidence to the reasonable satisfaction of the Trustee as to the Priority Claim held by such Person, as to the extent to which such Person is entitled to participate in such payment or distribution, and as to other facts pertinent to the
rights of such Person under Section 2.03, and if such evidence is not furnished, the Trustee may defer any payment to such Person pending judicial determination as to the right of such Person to receive such payment. 

Section 14.02. Payments on Securities Permitted if No Default. Except as otherwise provided in this Article 14 or
Section 2.03, nothing contained in this Indenture, or in any of the Securities, shall affect the obligation of the Issuer to make, or prevent the Issuer from making payment of the principal of (or premium, if any), interest or any additional amounts
on the Securities in accordance with the provisions hereof and thereof. 
 Section 14.03. Effectuation of Subordination By
Trustee. Each Holder of Securities, by such Person’s acceptance thereof, authorizes and directs the Trustee in such Person’s behalf to take such action as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the subordination provided
in this Article 14 or Section 2.03 and appoints the Trustee such Person’s attorney-in-fact for any and all such purposes. 

Section 14.04. Knowledge of Trustee. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Article 14 or any other provisions of this
Indenture, the Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of the existence of any Priority Claim, or any default in the payment of the principal of or the premium, if any, or interest or additional amounts on any Priority Claim, except any Priority
Claim arising pursuant to an instrument to which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee having responsibility for this Indenture knows of or is a party or pursuant to an indenture under which the Trustee hereunder is Trustee, or of any facts which
would prohibit the making of any payment of monies to or by the Trustee, or the taking of any other action by the Trustee, unless and until the Trustee shall have received written notice thereof, before 12:00 noon on the last Business Day prior to
the date on which such payment is due, from the Issuer, any Holder of the Securities, any Paying Agent of the Issuer or the holder or representative of any class of Priority Claims who shall have been certified by the Issuer or otherwise established
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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly executed, all
as of August 3, 2021. 
  

			
	DEUTSCHE BANK AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
		
	 By:
	 	 /s/ Jonathan Blake

		 	Name: Jonathan Blake
		 	Title: Managing Director
		
	 By:
	 	 /s/ Thomas Rueckert

		 	Name: Thomas Rueckert
		 	Title: Vice President, Deutsche Bank Frankfurt           Treasury
	
	WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCATION, TRUSTEE
		
	 By:
	 	 /s/ Barry D. Somrock

		 	Name: Barry D. Somrock
		 	Title: Vice President
	
	DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, as Paying Agent, Transfer Agent, Registrar and Authenticating Agent
		
	 By:
	 	 /s/ Irina Golovashchuk

		 	Name: Irina Golovashchuk
		 	Title: Vice President
		
	 By:
	 	 /s/ Sebastian Hidalgo

		 	Name: Sebastian Hidalgo
		 	Title: Associate














 Schedule I 












 Exhibit 4.8(a) 

DEUTSCHE BANK AG 
 [INSERT
BRANCH OFFICE THROUGH WHICH THE NOTE IS ISSUED, IF APPLICABLE] 
 [FORM OF FACE OF DEBT SECURITY] 

FIXED RATE REGISTERED SUBORDINATED TIER 2 NOTE 
  

			
	REGISTERED	  	U.S. $[AGGREGATE
		  	PRINCIPAL AMOUNT]
	CERTIFICATE No.	  	CUSIP:
		  	ISIN:

 Unless this certificate is presented by an authorized representative of The Depository Trust Company, a New
York corporation (“DTC”), to the Issuer or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange or payment, and any certificate issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or in such other name as is requested by an
authorized representative of DTC (and any payment is made to Cede & Co. or to such other entity as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS
WRONGFUL inasmuch as the registered owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein. 












 SUBORDINATED TIER 2 NOTES 

Fixed Rate Registered Subordinated Tier 2 Note 
  

			
		
	Trade Date	  	[    ]
		
	Original Issue Date	  	[    ]
		
	Maturity Date	  	[    ]
		
	Principal Amount	  	[    ]
		
	Aggregate Principal Amount	  	[    ]
		
	Minimum Denominations	  	[    ]
		
	Interest Rate	  	[    ]
		
	Interest Payment Date(s)	  	[    ]
		
	Interest Period(s)	  	[    ]
		
	Interest Accrual Date	  	[    ]
		
	Resolution Measures Provisions	  	This Note will be subject to the Resolution Measures provisions provided in the Indenture and on the reverse hereof
		
	Office Substitution	  	[Applicable]
		
	Initial Redemption Date	  	[    ]
		
	Redemption Dates	  	[    ]
		
	Redemption Notice Period	  	[    ]
		
	Initial Redemption Percentage	  	[    ]
		
	Annual Redemption Percentage Reduction	  	[    ]
		
	Original Yield to Maturity	  	[    ]
		
	Tax Redemption	  	[    ]
		
	Payment of Additional Tax Amounts	  	[    ]
		
	Other Provisions	  	[    ]













 Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft, a stock corporation (Aktiengesellschaft) organized
under the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, if so specified, acting through the office specified on the front page of this Note, (together with its successors and assigns, the “Issuer”), for value received, hereby promises to
pay to Cede & Co., or registered assignees, the amount of cash due with respect to the principal sum specified above on the Maturity Date specified above (except to the extent previously redeemed) and to pay interest thereon at the Interest
Rate per annum specified above from and including the Interest Accrual Date specified above until but excluding the date the amount due with respect to the principal amount is paid or duly made available for payment (except as provided below)
weekly, monthly, quarterly, semi-annually or annually in arrears on the Interest Payment Dates specified above in each year commencing on the Interest Payment Date next succeeding the Interest Accrual Date specified above, and at maturity (or on any
redemption date); provided, however, that if the Interest Accrual Date occurs between a Record Date, as defined below, and the next succeeding Interest Payment Date, interest payments will commence on the second Interest Payment Date
succeeding the Interest Accrual Date to the registered Holder of this Note on the Record Date with respect to such second Interest Payment Date. 

Interest on this Note will accrue from, and including, the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided
for, or, if no interest has been paid or duly provided for, from and including, the Interest Accrual Date, to, but excluding the next Interest Payment Date or the date the amount due with respect to the principal hereof has been paid or duly made
available for payment (except as provided below). The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, subject to certain exceptions described herein, be paid to the person in whose name this Note (or
one or more predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on the date that is one New York Banking Day immediately preceding the relevant date of payment with respect to such Interest Payment Date (each such date, a “Record
Date”); provided, however, that any interest payable at maturity (or on any redemption date) will be payable to the person to whom the amount due with respect to the principal hereof shall be payable. 

Payment of the amount due with respect to the principal, premium, if any, and any interest due on this Note will be made by wire transfer of
immediately available funds at the office or agency of the Paying Agent (as defined on the reverse hereof), maintained for that purpose in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, or at such other paying agency as the Issuer may determine, in
U.S. Dollars. 
 Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions
shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place. 
 Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been
executed by the Authenticating Agent, acting on behalf of the Trustee, referred to on the reverse hereof by manual or electronic signature (including any electronic signature complying with the U.S. federal ESIGN Act of 2000, e.g.,
www.docusign.com), this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture (as defined on the reverse hereof) or be valid or obligatory for any purpose. 












 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this Note to be duly executed. 

 

							
	DATED: [     ]	 		 	DEUTSCHE BANK AG [INSERT BRANCH OFFICE THROUGH WHICH THE NOTE IS ISSUED, IF APPLICABLE]
				
		 		 	By:	 	              

		 		 		 	Name:
		 		 		 	Title:
				
		 		 	By:	 	  

		 		 		 	Name:
		 		 		 	Title:

  

			
	
	CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
	
	 This Note is one of the Securities referred

to in the within-mentioned Subordinated Indenture.

	
	DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, as Authenticating Agent
		
	By:	 	          

		 	Authorized Officer













 [FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY] 

This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Subordinated Tier 2 Notes of the Issuer (the “Notes”). The Notes are issuable
under an Amended and Restated Subordinated Indenture, dated as of August 3, 2021, among the Issuer, Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture),
and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas (“DBTCA”), as paying agent, transfer agent, registrar and authenticating agent (as may be amended or supplemented from time to time, the “Indenture”), to which Indenture
reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities of the Issuer, the Trustee and Holders of the Notes and the terms upon which the Notes are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered.
The Issuer has appointed DBTCA acting through its principal corporate trust office in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, as its paying agent (the “Paying Agent,” which term includes any additional or successor Paying
Agent appointed by the Issuer) with respect to the Notes. The Issuer has appointed DBTCA as the authenticating agent (the “Authenticating Agent,” which term includes any additional or successor Authenticating Agent appointed by the
Issuer) to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate the Notes. The terms of individual Notes may vary with respect to interest rates, interest rate formulas, issue dates, maturity dates, or otherwise, all as provided in the Indenture. To the
extent not inconsistent herewith, the terms of the Indenture are hereby incorporated by reference herein. 
 This Note will not be subject
to any sinking fund. Unless otherwise indicated on the face hereof, this Note will not be redeemable prior to maturity. 
 If so indicated
on the face hereof, this Note may be redeemed in whole or in part at the option of the Issuer on or after the Initial Redemption Date specified on the face hereof or on the Redemption Dates specified on the face hereof on the terms set forth on the
face hereof, together with interest accrued and unpaid hereon to the date of redemption. Any redemption of this Note prior to its stated maturity shall be at the option of the Issuer only and subject to (i) receipt by the Issuer of prior
written approval of the competent supervisory authority, and any redemption shall not occur before five years after the date of issuance, except where the conditions set out in Article 78(4) of the CRR are met; (ii) compliance with any other
regulatory requirements; and (iii) the requirements set forth in Section 2.03 of the Indenture. 
 If this Note is subject to
“Annual Redemption Percentage Reduction,” the Initial Redemption Percentage indicated on the face hereof will be reduced on each anniversary of the Initial Redemption Date by the Annual Redemption Percentage Reduction specified on
the face hereof until the redemption price of this Note is 100% of the principal amount hereof, together with interest accrued and unpaid hereon to the date of redemption. Notice of redemption shall be mailed to the registered Holders of the Notes
designated for redemption at their addresses as the same shall appear on the Note register not less than 30 calendar days nor more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for redemption or within the Redemption Notice Period specified on the
face hereof, subject to all the conditions and provisions of the Indenture. In the event of redemption of this Note in part only, a new Note or Notes for the amount of the unredeemed portion hereof shall be issued in the name of the Holder hereof
upon the cancellation hereof. 












 Interest payments on this Note will include interest accrued to but excluding the Interest
Payment Dates or the Maturity Date (or any earlier redemption date), as the case may be. Unless indicated otherwise on the face hereof, interest payments for this Note will be computed and paid on the basis of a
360-day year of twelve 30-day months. 
 In the case where
the calendar date indicated on the face hereof as the Interest Payment Date or the Maturity Date (or any redemption date) does not fall on a Business Day or where the Interest Payment Date or the Maturity Date (or any redemption date) is postponed
according to the terms and procedures specified on the face hereof, payment of interest, premium, if any, or principal otherwise payable on such calendar date need not be made on such date, but may be made on the immediately following Business Day
with the same force and effect as if made on the indicated calendar date, and no interest on such payment shall accrue for the period from and after the indicated calendar date to such Business Day. 

The Notes are intended to qualify as Own Funds Instruments of the Issuer in the form of Tier 2 instruments (Instrumente des
Ergänzungskapitals) within the meaning of Article 63 of the CRR (“Tier 2 Instruments”). 
 The obligations
under the Notes shall constitute unsecured and subordinated obligations of the Issuer, ranking pari passu among themselves and, pari passu with all other equally subordinated obligations of the Issuer from time to time
constituting Own Funds Instruments in the form of Tier 2 Instruments. In the event of Resolution Measures being imposed on the Issuer or in the event of the dissolution, liquidation, insolvency (Insolvenzverfahren), composition or other
proceedings for the avoidance of insolvency of, or against, the Issuer, the obligations under the Securities shall be fully subordinated to all Priority Claims. In any such event, no amounts shall be payable in respect of the Notes until all
Priority Claims have been satisfied in full. If the Securities are deemed not to have qualified as Tier 2 Instruments or other Own Funds Instruments or at any time cease to so qualify, the obligations under the Securities will, pursuant to
Section 46f(7a) sentence 3 of the German Banking Act, rank senior to all obligations under Own Funds Instruments. 
 The Notes may
be issued in one or more series and each such series shall rank equally and pari passu with all other unsecured and equally subordinated debt (it being understood that no Priority Claims constitute such equally subordinated obligations) of
the Issuer, except as otherwise provided by applicable law or the terms of any other indebtedness, and in particular, if such debt is expressed to rank junior to the Notes, then the Notes shall rank senior to such junior debt, but junior to the
Priority Claims, except as otherwise provided by applicable law. 
 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth herein, but to the
extent not otherwise precluded by a Resolution Measure or the application of mandatory aspects of insolvency law, the prior claims against the Issuer under Section 7.06 of the Indenture shall not be subordinated to the Priority Claims and shall
survive the imposition of a Resolution Measure by the competent resolution authority in the priority set forth in Section 5.03 of the Indenture. 

No subsequent agreement shall (i) limit, or shall have the effect of limiting, the subordination of the Notes as provided for herein;
(ii) amend any provision establishing the maturity date or any date on which a redemption option, if any, may be exercised with respect to the Notes to provide for an earlier date; or (iii) shorten any applicable notice period. If the
Notes are redeemed or repurchased otherwise than in accordance with the terms of the Notes, then the amounts paid must be returned to the Issuer irrespective of any agreement to the contrary. 

No Holder may set off its claims arising under the Notes against any claims of the Issuer. No collateral or guarantee shall be provided at any
time to secure claims of the Holders under the Notes; any collateral or guarantee already provided or granted in the future in connection with other liabilities of the Issuer may not be used for claims under the Notes.  

This Note, and any Note or Notes issued upon transfer or exchange hereof, is issuable only in fully registered form, without coupons, and
unless otherwise specified above, is issuable only in denominations of U.S. $1,000 and any integral multiple of U.S. $1,000 in excess thereof. 












 If “Office Substitution” is applicable to the Notes as specified on the face
hereof, the Issuer may at any time, without the consent of the Holders or the Trustee, designate another Office of the Issuer as substitute for the Office through which the Issuer has acted to issue the Notes with the same effect as if such
substitute Office had been originally named as the Office through which the Issuer had acted to issue the Notes for all purposes under the Indenture and the Notes. In order to give effect to such substitution, the Issuer shall give notice of
such substitution to the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes. With effect from the substitution date, such substitute Office shall, without any amendment to this Note or entry into any supplemental indenture, assume all of the obligations of
the originally-named Office as principal obligor under the Notes. “Office” means the Issuer’s head office or one of the Issuer’s branch offices. 

DBTCA has been appointed Registrar for the Notes, and DBTCA will maintain at its office in The City of New York, a register for the
registration and transfer of Notes. This Note may be transferred at either the aforesaid New York office of DBTCA by surrendering this Note for cancellation, accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Issuer, the
Trustee and the Authenticating Agent and duly executed by the registered Holder hereof in person or by the Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent shall authenticate and deliver in the
name of the transferee or transferees, in exchange herefor, a new Note or Notes having identical terms and provisions and having a like aggregate principal amount in authorized denominations, subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein;
provided, however, that neither the Trustee nor the Authenticating Agent will be required to (i) register the transfer of or exchange any Note that has been called for redemption in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion
of Notes being redeemed in part or (ii) register the transfer of or exchange Notes to the extent and during the period so provided in the Indenture with respect to the redemption of Notes. Notes are exchangeable at said offices for other Notes
of other authorized denominations of equal aggregate principal amount having identical terms and provisions. All such registrations, exchanges and transfers of Notes will be free of service charge, but the Issuer may require payment of a sum
sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge in connection therewith. All Notes surrendered for exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Issuer, the Trustee and the Authenticating
Agent and executed by the registered Holder in person or by the Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. The date of registration of any Note delivered upon any exchange or transfer of Notes shall be such that no gain or loss of interest
results from such exchange or transfer. 
 In case this Note shall at any time become mutilated, defaced or be destroyed, lost or stolen and
this Note or evidence of the loss, theft or destruction thereof (together with the indemnity hereinafter referred to and such other documents or proof as may be required in the premises) shall be delivered to the Trustee and the Authenticating
Agent, the Issuer in its discretion may execute a new Note of like tenor in exchange for this Note, but, in the case of any destroyed or lost or stolen Note, only upon receipt of evidence satisfactory to the Trustee, the Authenticating Agent and the
Issuer that this Note was destroyed or lost or stolen and, if required, upon receipt also of indemnity satisfactory to each of them. All expenses and reasonable charges associated with procuring such indemnity and with the preparation,
authentication and delivery of a new Note shall be borne by the owner of the Note mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen. 
 There
are no defaults or events of default with respect to the Notes, there is no right of acceleration in the case of any non-payment of principal of, interest on or other amounts owing under the Notes or a failure
by the Issuer to perform any other covenant under the Notes or under this Indenture, and under no circumstances may the Holders or the Trustee declare the principal amount of the Notes and interest accrued thereon to be due and payable. If the
Issuer becomes subject to German insolvency proceedings, neither the Trustee (on behalf of the Holders for amounts due to them) nor any Holder will have any right to file a claim against the Issuer unless the competent insolvency court allows the
filing of subordinated claims that rank on parity with the claims in respect of the Notes. 












 If the Issuer fails to make any payment of principal of, interest on, or other amounts owing
under the Notes at such time as such payment is required to be made pursuant to the terms of the Notes (any such failure, a “Non-Payment Event”) and such
Non-Payment Event is continuing, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, shall be entitled and empowered to pursue any available remedy by proceedings at law or in equity to collect
any principal of and interest on this Note due and unpaid, or to enforce the performance of any provision of this Note or the Indenture, and may prosecute any such action or proceedings to judgment or final decree, and may enforce any such judgment
or final decree against the Issuer or other obligor upon this Note and collect in the manner provided by law out of the property of the Issuer or other obligor upon this Note, wherever situated, the monies adjudged or decreed to be payable. 

If the face hereof indicates that this Note is subject to “Tax Redemption,” subject to the prior consent of the competent
supervisory authority, the Issuer may redeem this Note, in whole but not in part, at its option at any time prior to maturity, upon the giving of a Notice of redemption as described below, at 100% of the principal amount hereof (subject to the
imposition of any Resolution Measure) together with any accrued and unpaid interest to (but excluding) the date set for redemption if, as a result of any change in, or amendment to, the laws or regulations prevailing in the Tax Jurisdiction, which
becomes effective on or after the Original Issue Date, or as a result of any application or official interpretation of such laws or regulations not generally known before the Original Issue Date, Withholding Taxes are or there is a substantial
probability that they will be leviable on payments of interest in respect of this Note, and the Issuer would be obligated to pay Additional Amounts with respect to such Withholding Taxes, as described below, provided that the conditions in Article
78(4)(b) of the CRR are met, pursuant to which the Issuer’s competent supervisory authority may permit any such redemption only if it is satisfied that the change in the applicable tax treatment is material and was not reasonably foreseeable at
the Original Issue Date. The Issuer may exercise such redemption right on giving not less than 30 days’ notice to the holder of this Note. No such notice of redemption shall be given earlier than 90 days prior to the earliest date on which the
Issuer would be obligated to withhold or pay Withholding Taxes in respect of payments of interest, were a payment in respect of this Note then made. 

All interest amounts payable in respect of this Note shall be made without deduction or withholding for or on account of any present or future
taxes, duties or governmental charges of any nature whatsoever imposed or levied by way of deduction or withholding by or on behalf of the Tax Jurisdiction (“Withholding Taxes”), unless such deduction or withholding is required by
law. 












 “Tax Jurisdiction” means the Federal Republic of Germany or the United
States, or any political subdivision or any authority thereof or therein having power to tax. 
 In the event of such withholding or
deduction on payments of interest (but not in respect of the payment of any principal in respect of this Note) and if (but only if) the face hereof indicates that this Note is subject to “Payment of Additional Amounts,” the Issuer
shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, pay such additional amounts (“Additional Amounts”) as will be necessary in order that the net amounts received by the Holder, after such withholding or deduction for or on account of
any Withholding Taxes imposed upon or as a result of such payment by the Tax Jurisdiction, will equal the respective amounts which would otherwise have been receivable in the absence of such withholding or deduction; except that no such Additional
Amounts shall be payable on account of any taxes, duties or governmental charges which: 
  

	 	(a)	 are payable by any person acting as custodian or collecting agent on the Holder’s or the Beneficial
Owner’s behalf, or otherwise in any manner which does not constitute a deduction or withholding by the Issuer from payments of interest made by the Issuer; or 



 

	 	(b)	 in the case of U.S. federal income taxes, are imposed on interest received by or on behalf of (1) a 10-percent
shareholder (as defined in Section 871(h)(3)(B) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”) and the regulations that may be promulgated thereunder) of the Issuer, (2) a controlled foreign corporation that is related to the
Issuer within the meaning of Section 864(d)(4) of the Code, or (3) a bank receiving interest described in Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, to the extent such tax, assessment or other governmental charge would not have been imposed but for the
Holder’s or Beneficial Owner’s status as described in clauses (1) through (3) of this paragraph; or 


  

	 	(c)	 would not be payable to the extent such deduction or withholding could be avoided or reduced if the Holder or
the Beneficial Owner (or any financial institution through which the Holder or the Beneficial Owner holds the Notes or through which payment on the Notes is made) (i) makes a declaration of non-residence
or other similar claim for exemption to the relevant tax authority; or 


  

	 	(d)	 complies with any reasonable certification, documentation, information or other reporting requirement imposed
by the relevant tax authority or enters into or complies with any applicable certification, identification, information, documentation, registration, or other reporting requirement or agreement concerning accounts maintained by the Holder or the
Beneficial Owner (or such financial institution) or concerning the Holder’s or the Beneficial Owner’s (or financial institution’s) ownership or concerning the Holder’s or the Beneficial Owner’s (or such financial
institution’s) nationality, residence, identity or connection with the jurisdiction imposing such tax; or 


  

	 	(e)	 are payable by reason of the Holder’s or the Beneficial Owner’s having, or having had, some personal
or business connection with the Tax Jurisdiction and not merely by reason of the fact that payments in respect of the Notes are, or for purposes of taxation are deemed to be, derived from sources in, or are secured in, the Tax Jurisdiction; or



  

	 	(f)	 are presented for payment more than 30 days after the Relevant Date (as defined below) except to the extent
that the Holder or the Beneficial Owner would have been entitled to Additional Amounts on presenting the same for payment on the last day of the period of 30 days assuming that day to have been a Business Day; or 



 

	 	(g)	 are deducted or withheld by a paying agent from a payment if the payment could have been made by another paying
agent without such deduction or withholding; or 


  

	 	(h)	 would not be payable if the Notes had been kept in safe custody with, and the payments had been collected by, a
banking institution; or 


  

	 	(i)	 are payable by reason of a change in law or practice that becomes effective more than 30 days after the
relevant payment of interest becomes due, or is duly provided for and notice thereof is given in accordance with the Section 12.04 of the Indenture, whichever occurs later. 














 No Additional Amounts or any other amounts will be payable on account of any such
withholding or deduction in respect of payments of principal. 
 “Relevant Date” means the date on which the payment first
becomes due but, if the full amount payable has not been received by the paying agent on or before the due date, it means the date on which, the full amount having been so received. 

Moreover, all amounts payable in respect of this Note shall be made subject to compliance with Sections 1471 through 1474 of the U.S. Internal
Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), or any regulations or other official guidance promulgated thereunder, official interpretations thereof, or any applicable agreement entered into in connection therewith (including any agreement,
law, regulation, or other official guidance implementing such agreement) and any applicable agreement described in Section 1471(b) of the Code. The Issuer shall have no obligation to pay Additional Amounts or otherwise indemnify a Holder or
Beneficial Owner in connection with any such compliance with FATCA and any applicable agreement described in Section 1471(b) of the Code. 

The terms and conditions set forth in the following paragraphs (a) – (k) shall apply to this Note, and by acquiring this Note, the Holder
and each Beneficial Owner of this Note shall be bound by and shall be deemed to consent to the imposition of any Resolution Measure by the competent resolution authority. 
  

	 	(a)	 Under the relevant resolution laws and regulations as applicable to the Issuer from time to time, this Note may
be subject to the powers exercised by the competent resolution authority to: 


  

	 	(i)	 write down, including write down to zero, the claims for payment of the principal amount, the interest amount,
if any, or any other amount in respect of this Note; 


  

	 	(ii)	 convert this Note into ordinary shares of (A) the Issuer or (B) any group entity or (C) any
bridge bank or other instruments of ownership of such entities qualifying as common equity tier one capital (and the issue to or conferral on the Holder (including each Beneficial Owner) of such ordinary shares or instruments); and/or



  

	 	(iii)	 apply any other resolution measure, including, but not limited to, (A) any transfer of this Note to
another entity, (B) the amendment, modification or variation of the terms and conditions of this Note or (C) the cancellation of this Note; 



(each, a “Resolution Measure”). 

For the avoidance of doubt, any non-payment by the Issuer arising out of any such Resolution Measure
will not constitute a failure by the Issuer under the terms of this Note or the Indenture to make a payment of principal of, interest on, or other amounts owing under this Note. 













	 	(b)	 By its acquisition of this Note, the Holder (including each Beneficial Owner) of this Note shall be deemed
irrevocably to have agreed: 


  

	 	(i)	 to be bound by, to acknowledge and to accept any Resolution Measure and any amendment, modification or
variation of the terms and conditions of this Note to give effect to any Resolution Measure; 


  

	 	(ii)	 that it will have no claim or other right against the Issuer arising out of any Resolution Measure; and



  

	 	(iii)	 that the imposition of any Resolution Measure will not constitute a default or an event of default
(A) under this Note, (B) under the Indenture or (C) for the purpose of, but only to the fullest extent permitted by, the Trust Indenture Act (including, without limitation, Section 315(b) (Notice of Default) and
Section 315(c) (Duties of the Trustee in Case of Default) of the Trust Indenture Act) and applicable law. 


  

	 	(c)	 The terms and conditions of this Note shall continue to apply in relation to the residual principal amount of,
or outstanding amount payable in respect of, this Note, subject to any modification of the amount of interest payable, if any, to reflect the reduction of the principal amount, and any further modification of the terms that the competent resolution
authority may decide in accordance with applicable laws and regulations relating to the resolution of banks, banking group companies, credit institutions and/or investment firms incorporated in the Federal Republic of Germany. 



 

	 	(d)	 No repayment of any then-current principal amount of this Note or payment of interest or any other amount
thereon (to the extent of the portion thereof affected by the imposition of a Resolution Measure) shall become due and payable after the imposition of any Resolution Measure by the competent resolution authority, unless such repayment or payment
would be permitted to be made by the Issuer under the laws and regulations of the Federal Republic of Germany then applicable to the Issuer. 


  

	 	(e)	 By its acquisition of this Note, the Holder (and each Beneficial Owner) of this Note waives, to the fullest
extent permitted by the Trust Indenture Act and applicable law, any and all claims against the Trustee or the Agents for, agrees not to initiate a suit against the Trustee or the Agents in respect of, and agrees that the Trustee and the Agents shall
not be liable for, any action that the Trustee or the Agents take, or abstain from taking, in either case in accordance with the imposition of a Resolution Measure by the competent resolution authority with respect to this Note.



  

	 	(f)	 Upon the imposition of a Resolution Measure by the competent resolution authority with respect to this Note,
the Issuer shall provide a written notice directly to the Holder in accordance with Section 12.04 of the Indenture as soon as practicable regarding such imposition of a Resolution Measure by the competent resolution authority for purposes of
notifying the Holder of such occurrence. The Issuer shall also deliver a copy of such notice to the Trustee and the Agents for information purposes only, and the Trustee and the Agents shall be entitled to rely, and will not be liable for relying,
on the competent resolution authority and the Resolution Measure identified in such notice. Any delay or failure by the Issuer to give notice shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any Resolution Measure nor the effects thereof on this
Note. 















	 	(g)	 If this Note is called or being called for redemption or repurchase by the Issuer, but the competent resolution
authority has imposed a Resolution Measure with respect to this Note prior to the payment of the redemption or repurchase amount, the relevant redemption or repurchase notice, if any, shall be automatically rescinded and shall be of no force and
effect, and no payment of the redemption or repurchase amount will be due and payable. 


  

	 	(h)	 Upon the imposition of any Resolution Measure by the competent resolution authority, the Trustee shall not be
required to take any further directions from the Holders under Section 5.09 of the Indenture, which section authorizes Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the debt securities issued under the Indenture at the time Outstanding
to direct certain actions relating to such debt securities, and if any such direction was previously given under Section 5.09 of the Indenture to the Trustee by the Holders, it shall automatically cease to be effective, be null and void and
have no further effect. The Indenture shall impose no duties, obligations or liabilities upon the Trustee or the Agents whatsoever with respect to the imposition of any Resolution Measure by the competent resolution authority. The Trustee and the
Agents shall be fully protected in acting or refraining from acting in accordance with a Resolution Measure. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if, following completion of the imposition of a Resolution Measure by the competent resolution authority,
this Note remains outstanding, then the Trustee’s and each Agent’s duties under the Indenture shall remain applicable with respect to this Note following such completion to the extent that the Issuer, the Trustee and the Agents agree
pursuant to a supplemental indenture, unless the Issuer, the Trustee and the Agents agree that a supplemental indenture is not necessary. 


  

	 	(i)	 By the acquisition of this Note, the Holder and each Beneficial Owner of this Note shall be deemed irrevocably
to have (i) consented to the imposition of any Resolution Measure as it may be imposed without any prior notice by the competent resolution authority of its decision to exercise such power with respect to this Note, (ii) authorized,
directed and requested the Depositary and any direct participant in the Depositary or other intermediary through which it holds this Note to take any and all necessary action, if required, to implement the imposition of any Resolution Measure with
respect to this Note as it may be imposed, without any further action or direction on the part of the Holder of this Note, the Trustee or the Agents and (iii) acknowledged and accepted that the provisions contained in Article 6 of the Indenture
are exhaustive on the matters described in Article 6 of the Indenture to the exclusion of any other agreements, arrangements or understandings between it and the Issuer relating to the terms and conditions of this Note. 















	 	(j)	 If the competent resolution authority imposes a Resolution Measure with respect to less than the total
outstanding principal amount of the debt securities issued under 



	 	the Indenture, unless the Trustee or the Agents are otherwise instructed by the Issuer or the competent resolution authority, any cancellation, write-off or conversion into equity
made in respect of such debt securities pursuant to the Resolution Measure will be made on a substantially pro rata basis among any series of debt securities issued under the Indenture. 


 

	 	(k)	 Any obligations of the Holders to indemnify the Trustee and the Agents under the Indenture shall survive the
imposition of a Resolution Measure by the competent resolution authority with respect to the Issuer or this Note. To the extent not otherwise precluded by a Resolution Measure, the Issuer’s obligations to indemnify the Trustee and the Agents in
accordance with Sections 7.02 and 7.06 of the Indenture shall survive the imposition of a Resolution Measure by the competent resolution authority with respect to the Issuer or this Note. 



The Indenture permits the Issuer and the Trustee, subject to the prior consent of the competent supervisory authority in respect of this Note,
if required under the CRR or other applicable laws and regulations for the recognition of the Securities as Tier 2 capital, and with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the debt securities of all
series issued under the Indenture then outstanding and affected (voting as one class), to execute supplemental indentures adding any provisions to or changing in any manner the rights of the Holders of each series so affected; provided that
the Issuer and the Trustee may not, without the consent of the Holder of each outstanding debt security affected thereby, (a) extend the final maturity of any such debt security, or reduce the principal amount thereof, or reduce the rate or
extend the time of payment of interest thereon, or reduce any amount payable on redemption thereof, or change the currency of payment thereof, or modify or amend the provisions for conversion of any currency into any other currency, modify or amend
any provisions relating to the conversion or exchange of the Notes or Coupons for securities of the Issuer or of other entities or other property (or the cash value thereof), including the determination of the amount of securities or other property
(or cash) into which the Notes shall be converted or exchanged, other than as provided in the antidilution provisions or other similar adjustment provisions of the Notes or Coupons or otherwise in accordance with the terms thereof, or impair or
affect the rights of any Holder to institute suit for the payment thereof, modify the provisions of the Indenture with respect to the subordination of this Note in a manner adverse to the Holder or (b) reduce the aforesaid percentage in
principal amount of debt securities the consent of the Holders of which is required for any such supplemental indenture. The Issuer and the Trustee may, without the consent of the Holder of this Note, conform the terms of this Note to the
description thereof in the prospectus and prospectus supplements relating to the offering and sale of this Note. 
 So long as this Note
shall be outstanding, the Issuer will cause to be maintained an office or agency for the payment of the principal of and premium, if any, and interest, if any, on this Note as herein provided in the United States, and an office or agency in the
United States for the registration, transfer and exchange as aforesaid of this Note. The Issuer may designate other agencies for the payment of said principal, premium and interest at such place or places outside the United States (subject to
applicable laws and regulations) as the Issuer may decide. So long as there shall be such an agency, the Issuer shall keep the Trustee advised of the names and locations of such agencies, if any are so designated. 












 With respect to moneys paid by the Issuer and held by the Trustee or any Paying Agent for
payment of the principal of or interest or premium, if any, on any Notes that remain unclaimed at the end of two years after such principal, interest or premium shall have become due and payable (whether at maturity or upon call for redemption or
otherwise), (i) the Trustee or such Paying Agent shall notify the Holders of such Notes that such moneys shall be repaid to the Issuer and any person claiming such moneys shall thereafter look only to the Issuer for payment thereof and
(ii) such moneys shall be so repaid to the Issuer. Upon such repayment all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such moneys shall thereupon cease, without, however, limiting in any way any obligation that the Issuer may
have to pay the principal of or interest or premium, if any, on this Note as the same shall become due. 
 Subject to the imposition of a
Resolution Measure, no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Issuer, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the amount of cash as determined in accordance with the provisions set forth on the
face of this Note due with respect to the principal of, premium, if any, and interest, if any, on this Note at the time, place, and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed unless otherwise agreed between the Issuer and the registered
Holder of this Note. 
 Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration of transfer, the Issuer, the Trustee and any agent of the
Issuer or the Trustee may treat the Holder in whose name this Note is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Trustee or any such agent shall be affected by notice to the
contrary. 
 No recourse shall be had for the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, or the interest, if any, on this Note, for any
claim based hereon, or otherwise in respect hereof, or based on or in respect of the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto, against any incorporator, shareholder, officer or director, as such, past, present or future, of the Issuer or of
any successor corporation, either directly or through the Issuer or any successor corporation, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of law or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise, all such liability being,
by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issue hereof, expressly waived and released. 
 This Note shall be deemed
to be a contract under the laws of the State of New York, and for all purposes shall be construed in accordance with the laws of such State, except with respect to the provisions relating to the subordination of the Notes set forth in the second and
third paragraph of Section 2.03 of the Indenture, which shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany. 

As used herein: 
  

	 	(a)	 the term “Beneficial Owner” shall mean the beneficial owners of this Note (and any interest
therein); 


  

	 	(b)	 the term “bridge bank” means a newly chartered German bank that would receive some or all of
the Issuer’s equity securities, assets, liabilities and material contracts, including those attributable to the Issuer’s branches and subsidiaries, in the event of the imposition of Resolution Measures; 



 

	 	(c)	 the term “Business Day” means, unless otherwise provided on the face of this Note, any day
other than a day that (i) is a Saturday or Sunday, (ii) is a day on which banking institutions generally in the City of New York are authorized or obligated by law, regulation or executive order to close, (iii) is a day on which
transactions in U.S. Dollars are not conducted in the City of New York or (iv) a day on which TARGET2 is not operating; 















	 	(d)	 the term “competent resolution authority” means any authority with the ability to exercise a
Resolution Measure; 


  

	 	(e)	 the term “CRR” means Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and the Council of
June 26, 2013 on prudential requirements for credit institutions and investment firms and amending Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 (including any provisions of regulatory law supplementing this Regulation); to the extent that any provisions of
the CRR are amended or replaced, the term CRR as used in this Note shall refer to such amended provisions or successor provisions; 


  

	 	(f)	 the term “competent supervisory authority” means any authority that bears primary
responsibility for the prudential supervision of the Issuer; 


  

	 	(g)	 the term “group entity” shall mean an entity that is included in the corporate group subject
to a Resolution Measure; 


  

	 	(h)	 the term “Notices” refers to notices to the Holders of the Notes at each Holder’s address
as that address appears in the register for the Notes by first class mail, postage prepaid, and to be given by publication in an authorized newspaper in the English language and of general circulation in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New
York; provided that notice may be made, at the option of the Issuer, through the customary notice provisions of the clearing system or systems through which beneficial interests in this Note are owned. Such Notices will be deemed to have been
given on the date of such publication (or other transmission, as applicable), or if published in such newspapers on different dates, on the date of the first such publication; 



 

	 	(i)	 the term “Own Funds Instruments” means own funds instruments of the Issuer within the meaning
of the CRR; 


  

	 	(j)	 the term “Priority Claims” means claims against, and obligations of, the Issuer which do not
qualify as Own Funds Instruments; this includes (i) all claims of unsubordinated creditors of the Issuer (including claims against the Issuer under its unsecured and unsubordinated non-preferred debt
instruments within the meaning of Section 46f(6) sentence 1 of the German Banking Act (Kreditwesengesetz) (including obligations of the Issuer under any such debt instruments that were issued by the Issuer before July 21, 2018 and
that are subject to Section 46f(9) sentence 2 of the German Banking Act) (or any successor provision thereof)), (ii) the claims specified in Section 39(1) nos. 1 to 5 of the German Insolvency Code (Insolvenzordnung) (or any
successor provision thereof), (iii) contractually subordinated obligations of the Issuer within the meaning of Section 39(2) of the German Insolvency Code (or any successor provision thereof) which do not qualify as Own Funds Instruments at the
time Resolution Measures are imposed on the Issuer or in the event of a dissolution, liquidation, insolvency, composition or other proceedings for the avoidance of insolvency of, or against, the Issuer, and (iv) other contractually subordinated
obligations of the Issuer within the meaning of Section 46f(7a) sentence 3 of the German Banking Act (or any successor provision thereto); 















	 	(k)	 the term “TARGET2” means the Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross Settlement Express
Transfer System; and 


  

	 	(l)	 the term “United States” means the United States of America (including the States and the
District of Columbia), its territories, its possessions and other areas subject to its jurisdiction. 


 All other terms
used in this Note which are defined in the Indenture and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture. 












 ABBREVIATIONS 

The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this instrument, shall be construed as though they were written out
in full according to applicable laws or regulations: 
  

			
	 TEN COM
	  	– as tenants in common
		
	 TEN ENT
	  	– as tenants by the entireties
		
	 JT TEN
	  	– as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common

  

			
	 UNIF GIFT MIN ACT
–                                        
                                    
	  	Custodian                                    
                                         
       
	(Minor)	  	(Cust)
	
	 Under Uniform Gifts to Minors
Act                                        
                                         
                           

	(State)

 Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list. 

 
  

 












 FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s) unto 

 

	
	
                          
                                         
         
 [PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER

IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE]


  

	
	  

	  

	  

	[PLEASE PRINT OR TYPE NAME AND ADDRESS, INCLUDING ZIP CODE, OF ASSIGNEE]

 the within Note and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing such person attorney to transfer
such Note on the books of the Issuer, with full power of substitution in the premises. 
 Dated:
                         
  

			
	NOTICE:	  	The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as written upon the face of the within Note in every particular without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever.


  
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 Schedule II 












 Exhibit 4.8(b) 

DEUTSCHE BANK AG 
 [INSERT
BRANCH OFFICE THROUGH WHICH THE NOTE IS ISSUED, IF APPLICABLE] 
 [FORM OF FACE OF DEBT SECURITY] 

FLOATING RATE REGISTERED SUBORDINATED TIER 2 NOTE 
  

			
	REGISTERED	  	U.S. $[AGGREGATE
		  	PRINCIPAL AMOUNT]
	CERTIFICATE No.	  	CUSIP:
		  	ISIN:

 Unless this certificate is presented by an authorized representative of The Depository Trust Company, a New
York corporation (“DTC”), to the Issuer or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange or payment, and any certificate issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or in such other name as is requested by an
authorized representative of DTC (and any payment is made to Cede & Co. or to such other entity as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY
PERSON IS WRONGFUL inasmuch as the registered owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein. 
  












 SUBORDINATED TIER 2 NOTES 

Floating Rate Registered Subordinated Tier 2 Note 
  

			
	Trade Date	  	[    ]
		
	Original Issue Date	  	[    ]
		
	Maturity Date	  	[     ]
		
	Principal Amount	  	[    ]
		
	Aggregate Principal Amount	  	[    ]
		
	Minimum Denominations	  	[    ]
		
	Interest Accrual Date	  	[    ]
		
	Base Rate	  	[    ]
		
	Day Count Convention	  	[    ]
		
	Index Maturity	  	[    ]
		
	Spread (plus or minus)	  	[    ]
		
	Spread Multiplier	  	[    ]
		
	Initial Interest Rate	  	[    ]
		
	Initial Interest Reset Date	  	[    ]
		
	Interest Payment Date(s)	  	[    ]
		
	Interest Payment Period	  	[    ]
		
	Interest Reset Date(s)	  	[    ]
		
	Resolution Measures Provisions	  	This Note will be subject to the Resolution Measures provisions provided in the Indenture and on the reverse hereof
		
	Office Substitution	  	[Applicable]
		
	Calculation Agent	  	[    ]
		
	Initial Redemption Date	  	[    ]
		
	Initial Redemption Percentage	  	[    ]
		
	Annual Redemption Percentage Reduction	  	[    ]


  
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	Redemption Notice Period	  	[    ]
		
	Tax Redemption	  	[    ]
		
	Payment of Additional Tax Amounts	  	[    ]
		
	If yes, state Initial Offering Date	  	[    ]
		
	Other Provisions	  	[    ]

 Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft, a stock corporation (Aktiengesellschaft) organized under the laws of
the Federal Republic of Germany, if so specified, acting through the office specified on the front page of this Note, (together with its successors and assigns, the “Issuer”), for value received, hereby promises to pay to
Cede & Co., or registered assignees, the amount of cash due with respect to the principal sum specified above on the Maturity Date specified above (except to the extent previously redeemed) and to pay interest thereon at a rate per annum
determined in accordance with the provisions specified on the reverse hereof until the principal hereof is paid or duly made available for payment. 

The Issuer will pay interest in arrears weekly, monthly, quarterly, semi-annually or annually as specified above as the Interest Payment
Period on each Interest Payment Date (as specified above), commencing on the first Interest Payment Date next succeeding the Interest Accrual Date specified above, and on the Maturity Date (or on any redemption date); provided,
however, that if the Interest Accrual Date occurs between a Record Date, as defined below, and the next succeeding Interest Payment Date, interest payments will commence on the second Interest Payment Date succeeding the Interest Accrual Date
to the registered Holder of this Note on the Record Date with respect to such second Interest Payment Date; and provided, further, that if an Interest Payment Date (other than the Maturity Date or a redemption date) would fall on a day
that is not a Business Day, as defined on the reverse hereof, such Interest Payment Date shall be the following day that is a Business Day, except that if the Base Rate specified above is EURIBOR or Compounded SOFR and such next Business Day falls
in the next calendar month, such Interest Payment Date shall be the immediately preceding day that is a Business Day; and provided, further, that if the Maturity Date or redemption date would fall on a day that is not a Business Day,
such payment shall be made on the following day that is a Business Day and no interest shall accrue for the period from and after such Maturity Date or redemption date; and provided, further, that if an Interest Payment Date or the
Maturity Date or redemption date would fall on a day that is not a Business Day, payment of interest, premium, if any, or principal otherwise payable on such date need not be made on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day
with the same force and effect as if made on the scheduled Interest Payment Date or on the scheduled Maturity Date or redemption date. 

Interest on this Note will accrue from, and including, the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided
for, or, if no interest has been paid or duly provided for, from and including, the Interest Accrual Date, to, but excluding the next Interest Payment Date or the date the amount due with respect to the principal hereof has been paid or duly made
available for payment (except as provided below) (each such period, an “Interest Period”). The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, subject to certain exceptions described
herein, be paid to the person in whose 

  
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name this Note (or one or more predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on the date that is one New York Banking Day immediately preceding the relevant date of payment with
respect to such Interest Payment Date (each such date, a “Record Date”); provided, however, that any interest payable at maturity (or on any redemption date) will be payable to the person to whom the amount due with respect
to the principal hereof shall be payable. 
 Payment of the amount due with respect to the principal, premium, if any, and any interest due
on this Note will be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds at the office or agency of the Paying Agent (as defined on the reverse hereof), maintained for that purpose in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, or at such other
paying agency as the Issuer may determine, in U.S. Dollars. 
 Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on
the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place. 
 Unless the
certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Authenticating Agent, acting on behalf of the Trustee, referred to on the reverse hereof by manual or electronic signature (including any electronic signature complying with the U.S.
federal ESIGN Act of 2000, e.g., www.docusign.com), this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture (as defined on the reverse hereof) or be valid or obligatory for any purpose. 

  
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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this Note to be duly executed. 

 

			
	DATED: [     ] DEUTSCHE BANK AG [INSERT BRANCH OFFICE THROUGH WHICH THE NOTE IS ISSUED, IF APPLICABLE]
		
	By:	 	          

		 	Name:
		 	Title:
		
	By:	 	          

		 	Name:
		 	Title:


  

			
	 CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
  

This Note is one of the Securities referred
 to in the
within-mentioned Subordinated Indenture.
  
 DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, as
Authenticating Agent

		
	By:	 	          

		 	Authorized Officer


  
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 [FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY] 

This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Subordinated Tier 2 Notes of the Issuer (the “Notes”). The Notes are issuable
under an Amended and Restated Subordinated Indenture, dated as of August 3, 2021, among the Issuer, Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture),
and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas (“DBTCA”), as paying agent, transfer agent, registrar and authenticating agent (as may be amended or supplemented from time to time, the “Indenture”), to which Indenture
reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities of the Issuer, the Trustee and Holders of the Notes and the terms upon which the Notes are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered.
The Issuer has appointed DBTCA acting through its principal corporate trust office in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, as its paying agent (the “Paying Agent,” which term includes any additional or successor Paying
Agent appointed by the Issuer) with respect to the Notes. The Issuer has appointed DBTCA as the authenticating agent (the “Authenticating Agent,” which term includes any additional or successor Authenticating Agent appointed by the
Issuer) to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate the Notes. The terms of individual Notes may vary with respect to interest rates, interest rate formulas, issue dates, maturity dates, or otherwise, all as provided in the Indenture. To the
extent not inconsistent herewith, the terms of the Indenture are hereby incorporated by reference herein. 
 This Note will not be subject
to any sinking fund. Unless otherwise indicated on the face hereof, this Note will not be redeemable prior to maturity. 
 If so indicated
on the face hereof, this Note may be redeemed in whole or in part at the option of the Issuer on or after the Initial Redemption Date specified on the face hereof or on the Redemption Dates specified on the face hereof on the terms set forth on the
face hereof, together with interest accrued and unpaid hereon to the date of redemption. Any redemption of this Note prior to its stated maturity shall be at the option of the Issuer only and subject to (i) receipt by the Issuer of prior
written approval of the competent supervisory authority, and any redemption shall not occur before five years after the date of issuance, except where the conditions set out in Article 78(4) of the CRR are met; (ii) compliance with any other
regulatory requirements; and (iii) the requirements set forth in Section 2.03 of the Indenture. 
 If this Note is subject to
“Annual Redemption Percentage Reduction,” the Initial Redemption Percentage indicated on the face hereof will be reduced on each anniversary of the Initial Redemption Date by the Annual Redemption Percentage Reduction specified on
the face hereof until the redemption price of this Note is 100% of the principal amount hereof, together with interest accrued and unpaid hereon to the date of redemption. Notice of redemption shall be mailed to the registered Holders of the Notes
designated for redemption at their addresses as the same shall appear on the Note register not less than 30 calendar days nor more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for redemption or within the Redemption Notice Period specified on the
face hereof, subject to all the conditions and provisions of the Indenture. In the event of redemption of this Note in part only, a new Note or Notes for the amount of the unredeemed portion hereof shall be issued in the name of the Holder hereof
upon the cancellation hereof. 

  
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 This Note will bear interest at the rate determined in accordance with the applicable
provisions below by reference to the Base Rate shown on the face hereof based on the Index Maturity, if any, shown on the face hereof (i) plus or minus the Spread, if any, and/or (ii) multiplied by the Spread Multiplier, if any, specified
on the face hereof. 
 How Certain Floating Interest Rates Are Reset. The terms and provisions set forth in this section “How
Certain Floating Interest Rates Are Reset” will apply to this Note if the specified Base Rate is EURIBOR or any other Base Rate specified on the face hereof other than Compounded SOFR. 

Commencing with the Initial Interest Reset Date specified on the face hereof, the rate at which interest on this Note is payable shall be
reset as of each Interest Reset Date specified on the face hereof (as used herein, the term “Interest Reset Date” shall include the Initial Interest Reset Date). The determination of the rate of interest at which this Note will be
reset on any Interest Reset Date shall be made on the Interest Determination Date (as defined below) pertaining to such Interest Reset Dates; provided, however, that the interest rate in effect for the period from the Interest Accrual
Date to the Initial Interest Reset Date will be the Initial Interest Rate. If any Interest Reset Date would otherwise be a day that is not a Business Day, such Interest Reset Date shall be postponed to the next succeeding day that is a Business Day,
except that if the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is EURIBOR and such Business Day is in the next succeeding calendar month, such Interest Reset Date shall be the immediately preceding Business Day. 

The Interest Determination Date pertaining to an Interest Reset Date for Notes bearing interest calculated by reference to EURIBOR shall be
the second TARGET Settlement Day prior to such Interest Reset Date. The Interest Determination Date pertaining to an Interest Reset Date for Notes bearing interest calculated by reference to two or more Base Rates will be the latest Business Day
that is at least two Business Days before the Interest Reset Date for the applicable Note on which each Base Rate is determinable. 
 Unless
otherwise specified on the face hereof, the “Calculation Date” pertaining to an Interest Determination Date will be the earlier of (i) the tenth calendar day after such Interest Determination Date or, if such day is not a
Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day, or 
 (ii) the Business Day immediately preceding the applicable Interest Payment Date or
Maturity Date (or, with respect to any principal amount to be redeemed, any redemption date), as the case may be. The Calculation Agent shall calculate the interest rate hereon in accordance with the foregoing on or before each Calculation Date.

 How Interest Is Calculated. 

If the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is EURIBOR, upon the request of the Holder of this Note, the Calculation Agent will provide the
interest rate then in effect and, if determined, the interest rate that will become effective on the next Interest Reset Date for this Note. Upon the request of the Holder of this Note if the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is Compounded
SOFR, the Calculation Agent will provide Compounded SOFR, the interest rate and the amount of interest accrued with respect to any Interest Period for this Note, after Compounded SOFR and such interest rate and accrued interest have been determined.


  
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 The amount of accrued interest on a Note for an Interest Period is calculated by multiplying
the principal amount of this Note by an accrued interest factor. This accrued interest factor will be determined by multiplying the per annum floating interest rate determined by reference to the applicable Base Rate, as determined for the
applicable Interest Period, by a factor resulting from the Day Count Convention that applies with respect to such determination. The factor resulting from the Day Count Convention will be, if so specified on the face hereof, one of the following, or
may be any other convention specified on the face hereof: 
  

	 	•	 	 a factor based on a 360-day year of twelve
30-day months if the Day Count Convention specified on the face hereof is “30/360”; 


  

	 	•	 	 a factor equal to the actual number of days in the relevant period divided by 360 if the Day Count Convention
specified on the face hereof is “Actual/360”; 


  

	 	•	 	 a factor equal to the actual number of days in the relevant period divided by 365, or if any portion of that
relevant period falls in a leap year, the sum of (A) the actual number of days in that portion of the relevant period falling in a leap year divided by 366 and (B) the actual number of days in that portion of the relevant period falling in
a non-leap year divided by 365, if the Day Count Convention specified on the face hereof is “Actual/Actual”; or 



 

	 	•	 	 a factor equal to the actual number of days in the relevant period divided by 365, if the Day Count Convention
specified on the face hereof is “Actual/365 (Fixed).” 


 If no Day Count Convention is specified on the face
hereof, the factor for a note for which the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is EURIBOR or Compounded SOFR will be equal to the actual number of days in the relevant period divided by 360. 

All calculations with respect to the amount of interest payable on the Notes will be rounded to the nearest one hundred-thousandth, with five one-millionths rounded upward (e.g., 0.876545 would be rounded to 0.87655); all U.S. dollar amounts related to determination of the payment per principal amount of Notes at maturity will be rounded to the nearest ten-thousandth, with five one hundred-thousandths rounded upward (e.g., 0.76545 would be rounded up to 0.7655); and all U.S. dollar amounts paid on the aggregate principal amount of Notes per Holder or Beneficial
Owner will be rounded to the nearest cent, with one-half cent rounded upward. 
 The interest rate
on this Note will in no event be less than 0% per annum or higher than the maximum rate permitted by New York law, as such maximum rate may be modified by United States Federal law of general application. 

  
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 Determination of EURIBOR. If the Base Rate specified on the face hereof is
“EURIBOR,” for any Interest Determination Date, EURIBOR with respect to this Note shall be the rate for interbank term deposits in euro, as sponsored, calculated and published jointly by the European Money Markets Institute, having
the Index Maturity specified on the face hereof, as such rate appears on Reuters page EURIBOR01 (or any other page as may replace Reuters page EURIBOR01) (“Reuters Page EURIBOR01”) as of 11:00 A.M., Brussels Time, on such Interest
Determination Date. 
 The following procedures shall be followed if EURIBOR cannot be determined as described above: 

 

	 	(a)	 If the Calculation Agent determines that EURIBOR with the Index Maturity specified on the face hereof has been
discontinued or ceases to be calculated or published, the Calculation Agent will, in its sole discretion, select an alternative reference rate as a substitute interest rate for the Notes; provided that if the Calculation Agent determines that
there is an industry accepted successor interest rate for the discontinued EURIBOR, the Calculation Agent shall use such successor interest rate as the substitute interest rate for the Notes. As part of any such substitution, the Calculation Agent
may make adjustments to the terms of the Notes, including, but not limited to, the definition of the Base Rate (including the related fallback mechanism), the applicable currency and/or Index Maturity for such alternative reference rate, the Spread
or Spread Multiplier, as well as the business day convention, the definition of Business Day, Interest Determination Dates and related provisions and definitions, in each case consistent with accepted market practice for the use of such alternative
reference rate for debt obligations such as the Notes. 


  

	 	(b)	 If the Calculation Agent has not selected an alternative reference rate as a substitute interest rate for the
Notes as provided above, the following will apply: 


  

	 	(i)	 If the rate described in the second paragraph of this subsection does not appear on Reuters Page EURIBOR01 (or
any other page as may replace Reuters page EURIBOR01) or is not so published by 11:00 A.M., Brussels Time, on the applicable Interest Determination Date, EURIBOR for such Interest Determination Date will be the rate calculated by the Calculation
Agent as the arithmetic mean of at least two quotations obtained by the Calculation Agent after requesting the principal Euro-zone offices of four major banks in the Euro-zone interbank market, which may include the Issuer, as selected by the
Calculation Agent, to provide the Calculation Agent with its offered quotation for interbank term deposits in euro for the Index Maturity designated on the face hereof, commencing on the applicable Interest Reset Date, to prime banks in the
Euro-zone interbank market at approximately 11:00 A.M., Brussels Time, on the applicable Interest Determination Date and in a principal amount not less than the equivalent of U.S.$1,000,000 in euro that is representative for a single transaction in
euro in such market at such time. 


  

	 	(ii)	 If fewer than two quotations are so provided, EURIBOR for such Interest Determination Date shall be calculated
by the Calculation Agent and shall be the arithmetic mean of the rates quoted at approximately 11:00 A.M., Brussels Time, on such Interest Determination Date by four major banks in the Euro- zone interbank market, as selected by the Calculation
Agent, for loans in euro to leading European banks, having the Index Maturity designated on the face hereof commencing on the applicable Interest Reset Date in a principal amount not less than the equivalent of U.S.$1,000,000 in euro that is
representative for a single transaction in euro in such market at such time. 



  
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	 	(iii)	 If the banks so selected by the Calculation Agent are not providing quotations as set forth above, then the
Calculation Agent, after consulting such sources as it deems comparable to any of the foregoing quotations or display page, or any such source as it deems reasonable from which to estimate EURIBOR with the relevant Index Maturity, will determine
EURIBOR for that Interest Determination Date in its sole discretion. 


 Determination of Compounded SOFR. If the
Base Rate specified on the face hereof is “Compounded SOFR,” then the terms and provisions of this section “Determination of Compounded SOFR” will apply. 

The Calculation Agent will determine Compounded SOFR, the interest rate and accrued interest for each Interest Period in arrears as soon as
reasonably practicable on or after the last day of the applicable Observation Period, and in any event on or prior to the Business Day immediately preceding the relevant Interest Payment Date, and will notify the Issuer of Compounded SOFR and such
interest rate and accrued interest for each Interest Period as soon as reasonably practicable after such determination, but in any event by the Business Day immediately prior to the Interest Payment Date. 

Unless otherwise specified on the face hereof, the “Observation Period” in respect of each Interest Period for a Note will be the
period from, and including, the date that is two U.S. Government Securities Business Days preceding the first date in such Interest Period to, but excluding, the date that is two U.S. Government Securities Business Days preceding the Interest
Payment Date for such Interest Period. 
 “Compounded SOFR” means, with respect to any applicable Interest Period, the rate
of return of a daily compounded interest investment over the Observation Period corresponding to that Interest Period, calculated as follows: 
  





 
 “d0”, for any Observation
Period, is the number of U.S. Government Securities Business Days in the relevant Observation Period. 
 “i” is a series of
whole numbers from one to d0, each representing the relevant U.S. Government Securities Business Days in chronological order from, and including, the first U.S. Government Securities Business
Day in the relevant Observation Period. 
 “SOFRi”, for any
U.S. Government Securities Business Day “i” in the relevant Observation Period, is a reference rate equal to SOFR in respect of that day. 

  
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 “ni” for any
U.S. Government Securities Business Day “i” is the number of calendar days from, and including, such U.S. Government Securities Business Day “i” to, but excluding, the following U.S. Government Securities Business Day
“i+1”. 
 “d” is the number of calendar days in the relevant Observation Period. 

For these calculations, the daily SOFR in effect on any U.S. Government Securities Business Day will be the applicable SOFR as reset on that
date. 
 For purposes of determining Compounded SOFR, “SOFR” means, with respect to any U.S. Government Securities Business
Day: 
  

	 	(1)	 the Secured Overnight Financing Rate in respect of such U.S. Government Securities Business Day as published by
the New York Federal Reserve, as the administrator of such rate (or a successor administrator), on the New York Federal Reserve’s Website on or about 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the immediately following U.S. Government Securities
Business Day; or 


  

	 	(2)	 if the Secured Overnight Financing Rate in respect of such U.S. Government Securities Business Day does not
appear as specified in paragraph (1), unless both a Benchmark Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred, the Secured Overnight Financing Rate in respect of the last U.S. Government Securities Business Day for which
such rate was published on the New York Federal Reserve’s Website; or 


  

	 	(3)	 if a Benchmark Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred:



  

	 	•	 	 the sum of: (a) the alternate rate of interest that has been selected or recommended by the Relevant
Governmental Body as the replacement for the then-current Benchmark and (b) the Benchmark Replacement Adjustment; or 


  

	 	•	 	 the sum of: (a) the ISDA Fallback Rate and (b) the Benchmark Replacement Adjustment; or



  

	 	•	 	 the sum of: (a) the alternate rate of interest that has been selected by the Issuer or its designee as the
replacement for the then-current Benchmark giving due consideration to any industry-accepted rate of interest as a replacement for the then-current Benchmark for U.S. dollar-denominated floating rate notes at such time and (b) the Benchmark
Replacement Adjustment. 


 “Benchmark” means the Compounded SOFR as defined above; provided that if a
Benchmark Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred with respect to the Compounded SOFR or the then-current Benchmark, then “Benchmark” means the applicable Benchmark Replacement. 

  
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 “Benchmark Replacement” means the first alternative set forth in the order
presented in clause (3) of the definition of “SOFR” that can be determined by the Issuer or its designee as of the Benchmark Replacement Date. In connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement, the Issuer or its
designee will have the right to make Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes from time to time. 
 “Benchmark Replacement
Adjustment” means the first alternative set forth in the order below that can be determined by the Issuer or its designee as of the Benchmark Replacement Date: 
  

	 	(1)	 the spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, (which may be a
positive or negative value or zero) that has been selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body for the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement; 



 

	 	(2)	 if the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement is equivalent to the ISDA Fallback Rate, then the ISDA
Fallback Adjustment; 


  

	 	(3)	 the spread adjustment (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) that has been selected by the Issuer
or its designee giving due consideration to any industry-accepted spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of the then-current Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark
Replacement for U.S. dollar-denominated floating rate notes at such time. 


 “Benchmark Replacement Conforming
Changes” means, with respect to any Benchmark Replacement, any technical, administrative or operational changes (including changes to the definitions of “Interest Period” and “Observation Period,” timing and frequency of
determining rates and making payments of interest and other administrative matters) that the Issuer or its designee decides may be appropriate to reflect the adoption of such Benchmark Replacement in a manner substantially consistent with market
practice (or, if the Issuer or its designee decides that adoption of any portion of such market practice is not administratively feasible or if the Issuer or its designee determines that no market practice for use of the Benchmark Replacement
exists, in such other manner as the Issuer or its designee determines is reasonably necessary). 
 “Benchmark Replacement
Date” means the earliest to occur of the following events with respect to the then-current Benchmark: 
  

	 	(1)	 in the case of clause (1) or (2) of the definition of “Benchmark Transition Event,” the later of
(a) the date of the public statement or publication of information referenced therein and (b) the date on which the administrator of the Benchmark permanently or indefinitely ceases to provide the Benchmark; or 



 

	 	(2)	 in the case of clause (3) of the definition of “Benchmark Transition Event,” the date of the
public statement or publication of information referenced therein. 


 For the avoidance of doubt, if the event giving rise
to the Benchmark Replacement Date occurs on the same day as, but earlier than, the Reference Time in respect of any determination, the Benchmark Replacement Date will be deemed to have occurred prior to the Reference Time for such determination.


  
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 “Benchmark Transition Event” means the occurrence of one or more of the
following events with respect to the then-current Benchmark: 
  

	 	(1)	 a public statement or publication of information by or on behalf of the administrator of the Benchmark
announcing that such administrator has ceased or will cease to provide the Benchmark, permanently or indefinitely, provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide the
Benchmark; 


  

	 	(2)	 a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of the
Benchmark, the central bank for the currency of the Benchmark, an insolvency official with jurisdiction over the administrator for the Benchmark, a resolution authority with jurisdiction over the administrator for the Benchmark or a court or an
entity with similar insolvency or resolution authority over the administrator for the Benchmark, which states that the administrator of the Benchmark has ceased or will cease to provide the Benchmark permanently or indefinitely, provided that, at
the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide the Benchmark; or 


  

	 	(3)	 a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of the
Benchmark announcing that the Benchmark is no longer representative. 


 “ISDA Definitions” means the 2006
ISDA Definitions published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. or any successor thereto, as amended or supplemented from time to time, or any successor definitional booklet for interest rate derivatives published from time
to time. 
 “ISDA Fallback Adjustment” means the spread adjustment (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) that
would apply for derivatives transactions referencing the ISDA Definitions to be determined upon the occurrence of an index cessation event with respect to the Benchmark. 

“ISDA Fallback Rate” means the rate that would apply for derivatives transactions referencing the ISDA Definitions to be
effective upon the occurrence of an index cessation date with respect to the Benchmark excluding the applicable ISDA Fallback Adjustment. 

“New York Federal Reserve” means the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. 

“New York Federal Reserve’s Website” means the website of the New York Federal Reserve, currently at
http://www.newyorkfed.org, or any successor source. 
 “Reference Time” with respect to any determination of the Benchmark
means the time determined by the Issuer or its designee in accordance with the Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes. 

“Relevant Governmental Body” means the Federal Reserve Board and/or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or a committee
officially endorsed or convened by the Federal Reserve Board and/or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or any successor thereto. 

  
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 “U.S. Government Securities Business Day” means any day except for a
Saturday, Sunday or a day on which the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (or any successor thereto) recommends that the fixed income departments of its members be closed for the entire day for purposes of trading in U.S.
government securities. 
 “Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement” means the Benchmark Replacement excluding the Benchmark
Replacement Adjustment. 
 If a Benchmark Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred, any determination,
decision or election that may be made by the Issuer or its designee pursuant to this section “Compounded SOFR,” including any determination with respect to a tenor, rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or
non-occurrence of an event, circumstance or date and any decision to take or refrain from taking any action or any selection: 
  

	 	•	 	 will be conclusive and binding absent manifest error; 



 

	 	•	 	 will be made in the Issuer’s or its designee’s sole discretion; and 



 

	 	•	 	 notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the documentation relating to the Notes, shall become effective
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 The Notes are intended to qualify as Own Funds Instruments of the Issuer in the form of Tier
2 instruments (Instrumente des Ergänzungskapitals) within the meaning of Article 63 of the CRR (“Tier 2 Instruments”). 

The obligations under the Notes shall constitute unsecured and subordinated obligations of the Issuer, ranking pari passu among
themselves and, pari passu with all other equally subordinated obligations of the Issuer from time to time constituting Own Funds Instruments in the form of Tier 2 Instruments. In the event of Resolution Measures being imposed on the Issuer
or in the event of the dissolution, liquidation, insolvency (Insolvenzverfahren), composition or other proceedings for the avoidance of insolvency of, or against, the Issuer, the obligations under the Securities shall be fully subordinated to
all Priority Claims. In any such event, no amounts shall be payable in respect of the Notes until all Priority Claims have been satisfied in full. If the Securities are deemed not to have qualified as Tier 2 Instruments or other Own Funds
Instruments or at any time cease to so qualify, the obligations under the Securities will, pursuant to Section 46f(7a) sentence 3 of the German Banking Act, rank senior to all obligations under Own Funds Instruments. 

The Notes may be issued in one or more series and each such series shall rank equally and pari passu with all other unsecured and
equally subordinated debt (it being understood that no Priority Claims constitute such equally subordinated obligations) of the Issuer, except as otherwise provided by applicable law or the terms of any other indebtedness, and in particular, if such
debt is expressed to rank junior to the Notes, then the Notes shall rank senior to such junior debt, but junior to the Priority Claims, except as otherwise provided by applicable law. 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth herein, but to the extent not otherwise precluded by a Resolution Measure or the
application of mandatory aspects of insolvency law, the prior claims against the Issuer under Section 7.06 of the Indenture shall not be subordinated to the Priority Claims and shall survive the imposition of a Resolution Measure by the competent
resolution authority in the priority set forth in Section 5.03 of the Indenture. 
 No subsequent agreement shall (i) limit, or shall
have the effect of limiting, the subordination of the Notes as provided for herein; (ii) amend any provision establishing the maturity date or any date on which a redemption option, if any, may be exercised with respect to the Notes to provide
for an earlier date; or (iii) shorten any applicable notice period. If the Notes are redeemed or repurchased otherwise than in accordance with the terms of the Notes, then the amounts paid must be returned to the Issuer irrespective of any
agreement to the contrary. 
 No Holder may set off its claims arising under the Notes against any claims of the Issuer. No collateral or
guarantee shall be provided at any time to secure claims of the Holders under the Notes; any collateral or guarantee already provided or granted in the future in connection with other liabilities of the Issuer may not be used for claims under the
Notes. 
 This Note, and any Note or Notes issued upon transfer or exchange hereof, is issuable only in fully registered form, without
coupons, and unless otherwise specified above, is issuable only in denominations of U.S. $1,000 and any integral multiple of U.S. $1,000 in excess thereof. 

If “Office Substitution” is applicable to the Notes as specified on the face hereof, the Issuer may at any time, without the consent
of the Holders or the Trustee, designate another Office of the Issuer as substitute for the Office through which the Issuer has acted to issue the Notes with the same effect as if such substitute Office had been originally named as the Office
through which the Issuer had acted to issue the Notes for all purposes under the Indenture and the Notes. In order to give effect to such substitution, the Issuer shall give notice of such substitution to the Trustee and the Holders of the
Notes. With effect from the substitution date, such substitute Office shall, without any amendment to this Note or entry into any supplemental indenture, assume all of the obligations of the originally-named Office as principal obligor under
the Notes. “Office” means the Issuer’s head office or one of the Issuer’s branch offices. 
 DBTCA has been
appointed Registrar for the Notes, and DBTCA will maintain at its office in The City of New York, a register for the registration and transfer of Notes. This Note may be transferred at either the aforesaid New York office of DBTCA by surrendering
this Note for cancellation, accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Issuer, the Trustee and the Authenticating Agent and duly executed by the registered Holder hereof in


  
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person or by the Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent shall authenticate and deliver in the name of the transferee or
transferees, in exchange herefor, a new Note or Notes having identical terms and provisions and having a like aggregate principal amount in authorized denominations, subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein; provided,
however, that neither the Trustee nor the Authenticating Agent will be required to (i) register the transfer of or exchange any Note that has been called for redemption in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of Notes being
redeemed in part or (ii) register the transfer of or exchange Notes to the extent and during the period so provided in the Indenture with respect to the redemption of Notes. Notes are exchangeable at said offices for other Notes of other
authorized denominations of equal aggregate principal amount having identical terms and provisions. All such registrations, exchanges and transfers of Notes will be free of service charge, but the Issuer may require payment of a sum sufficient to
cover any tax or other governmental charge in connection therewith. All Notes surrendered for exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Issuer, the Trustee and the Authenticating Agent and executed
by the registered Holder in person or by the Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. The date of registration of any Note delivered upon any exchange or transfer of Notes shall be such that no gain or loss of interest results from such
exchange or transfer. 
 In case this Note shall at any time become mutilated, defaced or be destroyed, lost or stolen and this Note or
evidence of the loss, theft or destruction thereof (together with the indemnity hereinafter referred to and such other documents or proof as may be required in the premises) shall be delivered to the Trustee and the Authenticating Agent, the Issuer
in its discretion may execute a new Note of like tenor in exchange for this Note, but, in the case of any destroyed or lost or stolen Note, only upon receipt of evidence satisfactory to the Trustee, the Authenticating Agent and the Issuer that this
Note was destroyed or lost or stolen and, if required, upon receipt also of indemnity satisfactory to each of them. All expenses and reasonable charges associated with procuring such indemnity and with the preparation, authentication and delivery of
a new Note shall be borne by the owner of the Note mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen. 
 There are no defaults or events of
default with respect to the Notes, there is no right of acceleration in the case of any non-payment of principal of, interest on or other amounts owing under the Notes or a failure by the Issuer to perform any
other covenant under the Notes or under this Indenture, and under no circumstances may the Holders or the Trustee declare the principal amount of the Notes and interest accrued thereon to be due and payable. If the Issuer becomes subject to German
insolvency proceedings, neither the Trustee (on behalf of the Holders for amounts due to them) nor any Holder will have any right to file a claim against the Issuer unless the competent insolvency court allows the filing of subordinated claims that
rank on parity with the claims in respect of the Notes. 
 If the Issuer fails to make any payment of principal of, interest on, or other
amounts owing under the Notes at such time as such payment is required to be made pursuant to the terms of the Notes (any such failure, a “Non-Payment Event”) and such Non-Payment Event is continuing, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, shall be entitled and empowered to pursue any available remedy by proceedings at law or in equity to collect any
principal of and interest on this Note due and unpaid, or to enforce the performance of any provision of this Note or the Indenture, and may prosecute any such action or proceedings to judgment or final decree, and may enforce any such judgment or
final decree against the Issuer or other obligor upon this Note and collect in the manner provided by law out of the property of the Issuer or other obligor upon this Note, wherever situated, the monies adjudged or decreed to be payable. 

  
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 If the face hereof indicates that this Note is subject to “Tax Redemption,”
subject to the prior consent of the competent supervisory authority, the Issuer may redeem this Note, in whole but not in part, at its option at any time prior to maturity, upon the giving of a Notice of redemption as described below, at 100% of the
principal amount hereof (subject to the imposition of any Resolution Measure) together with any accrued and unpaid interest to (but excluding) the date set for redemption if, as a result of any change in, or amendment to, the laws or regulations
prevailing in the Tax Jurisdiction, which becomes effective on or after the Original Issue Date, or as a result of any application or official interpretation of such laws or regulations not generally known before the Original Issue Date, Withholding
Taxes are or there is a substantial probability that they will be leviable on payments of interest in respect of this Note, and the Issuer would be obligated to pay Additional Amounts with respect to such Withholding Taxes, as described below,
provided that the conditions in Article 78(4)(b) of the CRR are met, pursuant to which the Issuer’s competent supervisory authority may permit any such redemption only if it is satisfied that the change in the applicable tax treatment is
material and was not reasonably foreseeable at the Original Issue Date. The Issuer may exercise such redemption right on giving not less than 30 days’ notice to the holder of this Note. No such notice of redemption shall be given earlier than
90 days prior to the earliest date on which the Issuer would be obligated to withhold or pay Withholding Taxes in respect of payments of interest, were a payment in respect of this Note then made. 

All interest amounts payable in respect of this Note shall be made without deduction or withholding for or on account of any present or future
taxes, duties or governmental charges of any nature whatsoever imposed or levied by way of deduction or withholding by or on behalf of the Tax Jurisdiction (“Withholding Taxes”), unless such deduction or withholding is required by
law. 
 “Tax Jurisdiction” means the Federal Republic of Germany or the United States, or any political subdivision or any
authority thereof or therein having power to tax. 
 In the event of such withholding or deduction on payments of interest (but not in
respect of the payment of any principal in respect of this Note) and if (but only if) the face hereof indicates that this Note is subject to “Payment of Additional Amounts,” the Issuer shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law,
pay such additional amounts (“Additional Amounts”) as will be necessary in order that the net amounts received by the Holder, after such withholding or deduction for or on account of any Withholding Taxes imposed upon or as a result
of such payment by the Tax Jurisdiction, will equal the respective amounts which would otherwise have been receivable in the absence of such withholding or deduction; except that no such Additional Amounts shall be payable on account of any taxes,
duties or governmental charges which: 
  

	 	(a)	 are payable by any person acting as custodian or collecting agent on the Holder’s or the Beneficial
Owner’s behalf, or otherwise in any manner which does not constitute a deduction or withholding by the Issuer from payments of interest made by the Issuer; or 



 

	 	(b)	 in the case of U.S. federal income taxes, are imposed on interest received by or on behalf of (1) a 10-percent
shareholder (as defined in Section 871(h)(3)(B) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”) and the regulations that may be promulgated thereunder) of the Issuer, (2) a controlled foreign corporation that is related to
the Issuer within the meaning of Section 864(d)(4) of the Code, or (3) a bank receiving interest described in Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, to the extent such tax, assessment or other governmental charge would not have been imposed but for the
Holder’s or Beneficial Owner’s status as described in clauses (1) through (3) of this paragraph; or 



  
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	 	(c)	 would not be payable to the extent such deduction or withholding could be avoided or reduced if the Holder or
the Beneficial Owner (or any financial institution through which the Holder or the Beneficial Owner holds the Notes or through which payment on the Notes is made) (i) makes a declaration of non-residence
or other similar claim for exemption to the relevant tax authority; or 


  

	 	(d)	 complies with any reasonable certification, documentation, information or other reporting requirement imposed
by the relevant tax authority or enters into or complies with any applicable certification, identification, information, documentation, registration, or other reporting requirement or agreement concerning accounts maintained by the Holder or the
Beneficial Owner (or such financial institution) or concerning the Holder’s or the Beneficial Owner’s (or financial institution’s) ownership or concerning the Holder’s or the Beneficial Owner’s (or such financial
institution’s) nationality, residence, identity or connection with the jurisdiction imposing such tax; or 


  

	 	(e)	 are payable by reason of the Holder’s or the Beneficial Owner’s having, or having had, some personal
or business connection with the Tax Jurisdiction and not merely by reason of the fact that payments in respect of the Notes are, or for purposes of taxation are deemed to be, derived from sources in, or are secured in, the Tax Jurisdiction; or



  

	 	(f)	 are presented for payment more than 30 days after the Relevant Date (as defined below) except to the extent
that the Holder or the Beneficial Owner would have been entitled to Additional Amounts on presenting the same for payment on the last day of the period of 30 days assuming that day to have been a Business Day; or 



 

	 	(g)	 are deducted or withheld by a paying agent from a payment if the payment could have been made by another paying
agent without such deduction or withholding; or 


  

	 	(h)	 would not be payable if the Notes had been kept in safe custody with, and the payments had been collected by, a
banking institution; or 


  

	 	(i)	 are payable by reason of a change in law or practice that becomes effective more than 30 days after the
relevant payment of interest becomes due, or is duly provided for and notice thereof is given in accordance with the Section 12.04 of the Indenture, whichever occurs later. 



No Additional Amounts or any other amounts shall be payable on account of any such withholding or deduction in respect of payments of
principal. 
 “Relevant Date” means the date on which the payment first becomes due but, if the full amount payable has not
been received by the paying agent on or before the due date, it means the date on which, the full amount having been so received. 

Moreover, all amounts payable in respect of this Note shall be made subject to compliance with Sections 1471 through 1474 of the U.S. Internal
Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), or any regulations or other official guidance promulgated thereunder, official interpretations thereof, or any applicable agreement entered into in connection therewith (including any agreement,
law, regulation, or other official guidance implementing such agreement) and any applicable agreement described in Section 1471(b) of the Code. The Issuer shall have no obligation to pay Additional Amounts or otherwise indemnify a Holder or
Beneficial Owner in connection with any such compliance with FATCA and any applicable agreement described in Section 1471(b) of the Code. 

  
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 The terms and conditions set forth in the following paragraphs (a) – (k) shall apply to
this Note, and by acquiring this Note, the Holder and each Beneficial Owner of this Note shall be bound by and shall be deemed to consent to the imposition of any Resolution Measure by the competent resolution authority. 

 

	 	(a)	 Under the relevant resolution laws and regulations as applicable to the Issuer from time to time, this Note may
be subject to the powers exercised by the competent resolution authority to: 


  

	 	(i)	 write down, including write down to zero, the claims for payment of the principal amount, the interest amount,
if any, or any other amount in respect of this Note; 


  

	 	(ii)	 convert this Note into ordinary shares of (A) the Issuer or (B) any group entity or (C) any
bridge bank or other instruments of ownership of such entities qualifying as common equity tier one capital (and the issue to or conferral on the Holder (including each Beneficial Owner) of such ordinary shares or instruments); and/or



  

	 	(iii)	 apply any other resolution measure, including, but not limited to, (A) any transfer of this Note to
another entity, (B) the amendment, modification or variation of the terms and conditions of this Note or (C) the cancellation of this Note; 



(each, a “Resolution Measure”). 

For the avoidance of doubt, any non-payment by the Issuer arising out of any such Resolution Measure
will not constitute a failure by the Issuer under the terms of this Note or the Indenture to make a payment of principal of, interest on, or other amounts owing under this Note. 

 

	 	(b)	 By its acquisition of this Note, the Holder (including each Beneficial Owner) of this Note shall be deemed
irrevocably to have agreed: 


  

	 	(i)	 to be bound by, to acknowledge and to accept any Resolution Measure and any amendment, modification or
variation of the terms and conditions of this Note to give effect to any Resolution Measure; 


  

	 	(ii)	 that it will have no claim or other right against the Issuer arising out of any Resolution Measure; and



  

	 	(iii)	 that the imposition of any Resolution Measure will not constitute a default or an event of default
(A) under this Note, (B) under the Indenture or (C) for the purpose of, but only to the fullest extent permitted by, the Trust Indenture Act (including, without limitation, Section 315(b) (Notice of Default) and Section 315(c)
(Duties of the Trustee in Case of Default) of the Trust Indenture Act) and applicable law. 



  
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	 	(c)	 The terms and conditions of this Note shall continue to apply in relation to the residual principal amount of,
or outstanding amount payable in respect of, this Note, subject to any modification of the amount of interest payable, if any, to reflect the reduction of the principal amount, and any further modification of the terms that the competent resolution
authority may decide in accordance with applicable laws and regulations relating to the resolution of banks, banking group companies, credit institutions and/or investment firms incorporated in the Federal Republic of Germany. 



 

	 	(d)	 No repayment of any then-current principal amount of this Note or payment of interest or any other amount
thereon (to the extent of the portion thereof affected by the imposition of a Resolution Measure) shall become due and payable after the imposition of any Resolution Measure by the competent resolution authority, unless such repayment or payment
would be permitted to be made by the Issuer under the laws and regulations of the Federal Republic of Germany then applicable to the Issuer. 


  

	 	(e)	 By its acquisition of this Note, the Holder (and each Beneficial Owner) of this Note waives, to the fullest
extent permitted by the Trust Indenture Act and applicable law, any and all claims against the Trustee or the Agents for, agrees not to initiate a suit against the Trustee or the Agents in respect of, and agrees that the Trustee and the Agents shall
not be liable for, any action that the Trustee or the Agents take, or abstain from taking, in either case in accordance with the imposition of a Resolution Measure by the competent resolution authority with respect to this Note.



  

	 	(f)	 Upon the imposition of a Resolution Measure by the competent resolution authority with respect to this Note,
the Issuer shall provide a written notice directly to the Holder in accordance with Section 12.04 of the Indenture as soon as practicable regarding such imposition of a Resolution Measure by the competent resolution authority for purposes of
notifying the Holder of such occurrence. The Issuer shall also deliver a copy of such notice to the Trustee and the Agents for information purposes only, and the Trustee and the Agents shall be entitled to rely, and will not be liable for relying,
on the competent resolution authority and the Resolution Measure identified in such notice. Any delay or failure by the Issuer to give notice shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any Resolution Measure nor the effects thereof on this
Note. 


  

	 	(g)	 If this Note is called or being called for redemption or repurchase by the Issuer, but the competent resolution
authority has imposed a Resolution Measure with respect to this Note prior to the payment of the redemption or repurchase amount, the relevant redemption or repurchase notice, if any, shall be automatically rescinded and shall be of no force and
effect, and no payment of the redemption or repurchase amount will be due and payable. 



  
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	 	(h)	 Upon the imposition of any Resolution Measure by the competent resolution authority, the Trustee shall not be
required to take any further directions from the Holders under Section 5.09 of the Indenture, which section authorizes Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the debt securities issued under the Indenture at the time Outstanding
to direct certain actions relating to such debt securities, and if any such direction was previously given under Section 5.09 of the Indenture to the Trustee by the Holders, it shall automatically cease to be effective, be null and void and
have no further effect. The Indenture shall impose no duties, obligations or liabilities upon the Trustee or the Agents whatsoever with respect to the imposition of any Resolution Measure by the competent resolution authority. The Trustee and the
Agents shall be fully protected in acting or refraining from acting in accordance with a Resolution Measure. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if, following completion of the imposition of a Resolution Measure by the competent resolution authority,
this Note remains outstanding, then the Trustee’s and each Agent’s duties under the Indenture shall remain applicable with respect to this Note following such completion to the extent that the Issuer, the Trustee and the Agents agree
pursuant to a supplemental indenture, unless the Issuer, the Trustee and the Agents agree that a supplemental indenture is not necessary. 


  

	 	(i)	 By the acquisition of this Note, the Holder and each Beneficial Owner of this Note shall be deemed irrevocably
to have (i) consented to the imposition of any Resolution Measure as it may be imposed without any prior notice by the competent resolution authority of its decision to exercise such power with respect to this Note, (ii) authorized,
directed and requested the Depositary and any direct participant in the Depositary or other intermediary through which it holds this Note to take any and all necessary action, if required, to implement the imposition of any Resolution Measure with
respect to this Note as it may be imposed, without any further action or direction on the part of the Holder of this Note, the Trustee or the Agents and (iii) acknowledged and accepted that the provisions contained in Article 6 of the Indenture
are exhaustive on the matters described in Article 6 of the Indenture to the exclusion of any other agreements, arrangements or understandings between it and the Issuer relating to the terms and conditions of this Note. 



 

	 	(j)	 If the competent resolution authority imposes a Resolution Measure with respect to less than the total
outstanding principal amount of the debt securities issued under the Indenture, unless the Trustee or the Agents are otherwise instructed by the Issuer or the competent resolution authority, any cancellation,
write-off or conversion into equity made in respect of such debt securities pursuant to the Resolution Measure will be made on a substantially pro rata basis among any series of debt securities issued
under the Indenture. 


  

	 	(k)	 Any obligations of the Holders to indemnify the Trustee and the Agents under the Indenture shall survive the
imposition of a Resolution Measure by the competent resolution authority with respect to the Issuer or this Note. To the extent not otherwise precluded by a Resolution Measure, the Issuer’s obligations to indemnify the Trustee and the Agents in
accordance with Sections 7.02 and 7.06 of the Indenture shall survive the imposition of a Resolution Measure by the competent resolution authority with respect to the Issuer or this Note. 



  
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 The Indenture permits the Issuer and the Trustee, subject to the prior consent of the
competent supervisory authority in respect of this Note, if required under the CRR or other applicable laws and regulations for the recognition of the Securities as Tier 2 capital, and with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the debt securities of all series issued under the Indenture then outstanding and affected (voting as one class), to execute supplemental indentures adding any provisions to or changing in any manner the rights of the
Holders of each series so affected; provided that the Issuer and the Trustee may not, without the consent of the Holder of each outstanding debt security affected thereby, (a) extend the final maturity of any such debt security, or
reduce the principal amount thereof, or reduce the rate or extend the time of payment of interest thereon, or reduce any amount payable on redemption thereof, or change the currency of payment thereof, or modify or amend the provisions for
conversion of any currency into any other currency, modify or amend any provisions relating to the conversion or exchange of the Notes or Coupons for securities of the Issuer or of other entities or other property (or the cash value thereof),
including the determination of the amount of securities or other property (or cash) into which the Notes shall be converted or exchanged, other than as provided in the antidilution provisions or other similar adjustment provisions of the Notes or
Coupons or otherwise in accordance with the terms thereof, or impair or affect the rights of any Holder to institute suit for the payment thereof, modify the provisions of the Indenture with respect to the subordination of this Note in a manner
adverse to the Holder or (b) reduce the aforesaid percentage in principal amount of debt securities the consent of the Holders of which is required for any such supplemental indenture. The Issuer and the Trustee may, without the consent of the
Holder of this Note, conform the terms of this Note to the description thereof in the prospectus and prospectus supplements relating to the offering and sale of this Note. 

So long as this Note shall be outstanding, the Issuer will cause to be maintained an office or agency for the payment of the principal of and
premium, if any, and interest, if any, on this Note as herein provided in the United States, and an office or agency in the United States for the registration, transfer and exchange as aforesaid of this Note. The Issuer may designate other agencies
for the payment of said principal, premium and interest at such place or places outside the United States (subject to applicable laws and regulations) as the Issuer may decide. So long as there shall be such an agency, the Issuer shall keep the
Trustee advised of the names and locations of such agencies, if any are so designated. 

  
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 With respect to moneys paid by the Issuer and held by the Trustee or any Paying Agent for
payment of the principal of or interest or premium, if any, on any Notes that remain unclaimed at the end of two years after such principal, interest or premium shall have become due and payable (whether at maturity or upon call for redemption or
otherwise), (i) the Trustee or such Paying Agent shall notify the Holders of such Notes that such moneys shall be repaid to the Issuer and any person claiming such moneys shall thereafter look only to the Issuer for payment thereof and
(ii) such moneys shall be so repaid to the Issuer. Upon such repayment all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such moneys shall thereupon cease, without, however, limiting in any way any obligation that the Issuer may
have to pay the principal of or interest or premium, if any, on this Note as the same shall become due. 
 Subject to the imposition of a
Resolution Measure, no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Issuer, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the amount of cash as determined in accordance with the provisions set forth on the
face of this Note due with respect to the principal of, premium, if any, and interest, if any, on this Note at the time, place, and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed unless otherwise agreed between the Issuer and the registered
Holder of this Note. 
 Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration of transfer, the Issuer, the Trustee and any agent of the
Issuer or the Trustee may treat the Holder in whose name this Note is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Trustee or any such agent shall be affected by notice to the
contrary. 
 No recourse shall be had for the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, or the interest, if any, on this Note, for any
claim based hereon, or otherwise in respect hereof, or based on or in respect of the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto, against any incorporator, shareholder, officer or director, as such, past, present or future, of the Issuer or of
any successor corporation, either directly or through the Issuer or any successor corporation, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of law or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise, all such liability being,
by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issue hereof, expressly waived and released. 
 This Note shall be deemed
to be a contract under the laws of the State of New York, and for all purposes shall be construed in accordance with the laws of such State, except with respect to the provisions relating to the subordination of the Notes set forth in the second and
third paragraph of Section 2.03 of the Indenture, which shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany. 

As used herein: 
  

	 	(a)	 the term “Beneficial Owner” shall mean the beneficial owners of this Note (and any interest
therein); 


  

	 	(b)	 the term “bridge bank” means a newly chartered German bank that would receive some or all of
the Issuer’s equity securities, assets, liabilities and material contracts, including those attributable to the Issuer’s branches and subsidiaries, in the event of the imposition of Resolution Measures; 



  
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	 	(c)	 the term “Business Day” means, unless otherwise provided on the face of this Note, any day
other than a day that (i) is a Saturday or Sunday, (ii) is a day on which banking institutions generally in the City of New York are authorized or obligated by law, regulation or executive order to close, (iii) is a day on which
transactions in U.S. Dollars are not conducted in the City of New York or (iv) a day on which TARGET2 is not operating; 


  

	 	(d)	 the term “competent resolution authority” means any authority with the ability to exercise a
Resolution Measure; 


  

	 	(e)	 the term “CRR” means Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and the Council of
June 26, 2013 on prudential requirements for credit institutions and investment firms and amending Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 (including any provisions of regulatory law supplementing this Regulation); to the extent that any provisions of
the CRR are amended or replaced, the term CRR as used in this Note shall refer to such amended provisions or successor provisions; 


  

	 	(f)	 the term “competent supervisory authority” means any authority that bears primary
responsibility for the prudential supervision of the Issuer; 


  

	 	(g)	 the term “Euro-zone” means the region comprising member states of the European Union that have
adopted the single currency in accordance with the relevant treaty of the European Union, as amended; 


  

	 	(h)	 the term “group entity” shall mean an entity that is included in the corporate group subject
to a Resolution Measure; 


  

	 	(i)	 the term “Notices” refers to notices to the Holders of the Notes at each Holder’s address
as that address appears in the register for the Notes by first class mail, postage prepaid, and to be given by publication in an authorized newspaper in the English language and of general circulation in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New
York; provided that notice may be made, at the option of the Issuer, through the customary notice provisions of the clearing system or systems through which beneficial interests in this Note are owned. Such Notices will be deemed to have been
given on the date of such publication (or other transmission, as applicable), or if published in such newspapers on different dates, on the date of the first such publication; 



 

	 	(j)	 the term “Own Funds Instruments” means own funds instruments of the Issuer within the meaning
of the CRR; 


  

	 	(k)	 the term “Priority Claims” means claims against, and obligations of, the Issuer which do not
qualify as Own Funds Instruments; this includes (i) all claims of unsubordinated creditors of the Issuer (including claims against the Issuer under its unsecured and unsubordinated non-preferred debt
instruments within the meaning of Section 46f(6) sentence 1 of the German Banking Act (Kreditwesengesetz) (including obligations of the Issuer under any such debt instruments that were issued by the Issuer before July 21, 2018 and
that are subject to Section 46f(9) sentence 2 of the German Banking Act) (or any successor provision thereof)), (ii) the claims specified in Section 39(1) nos. 1 to 5 of the German Insolvency Code (Insolvenzordnung) (or any
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subordinated obligations of the Issuer within the meaning of Section 39(2) of the German Insolvency Code (or any successor provision thereof) which do not qualify as Own Funds Instruments at
the time Resolution Measures are imposed on the Issuer or in the event of a dissolution, liquidation, insolvency, composition or other proceedings for the avoidance of insolvency of, or against, the Issuer, and (iv) other contractually
subordinated obligations of the Issuer within the meaning of Section 46f(7a) sentence 3 of the German Banking Act (or any successor provision thereto); 

  


	 	(l)	 the term “Reuters page” means the display on Reuters 3000 Xtra, or any successor service, on
the page or pages specified on the face hereof, or any replacement page or pages on that service; 


  

	 	(m)	 the term “TARGET2” means the Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross Settlement Express
Transfer System; 


  

	 	(n)	 the term “TARGET Settlement Day” means any day on which TARGET2 is operating; and



  

	 	(o)	 the term “United States” means the United States of America (including the States and the
District of Columbia), its territories, its possessions and other areas subject to its jurisdiction. 


 All other terms
used in this Note which are defined in the Indenture and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture. 

  
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 ABBREVIATIONS 

The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this instrument, shall be construed as though they were written out
in full according to applicable laws or regulations: 
  

					
	 TEN COM
	  	–	  	as tenants in common
			
	 TEN ENT
	  	–	  	as tenants by the entireties
			
	 JT TEN
	  	–	  	as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common

  

							
	 UNIF GIFT MIN ACT –
	  	  
	  	Custodian	  	  

		  	(Minor)	  		  	(Cust)
	
	 Under Uniform Gifts to Minors
Act                                        
                                         
                                       


	(State)

 Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list. 

 
  

  
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 FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s) unto 

 

	
	  

	[PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE]

  

	
	  

	  

	  
 [PLEASE PRINT OR TYPE NAME AND ADDRESS, INCLUDING ZIP
CODE, OF ASSIGNEE]


 the within Note and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing such person attorney to transfer
such Note on the books of the Issuer, with full power of substitution in the premises. 
 Dated:
                     
  

			
	NOTICE:	  	The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as written upon the face of the within Note in every particular without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever.


  
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