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Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft (CZB)
Commerzbank Annual General Meeting approves all agenda items
20-May-2026 / 17:48 CET/CEST
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• Shareholders approve dividend of €1.10 per share and authorisation for
further share buybacks
• Actions of Board of Managing Directors and Supervisory Board ratified
by Annual General Meeting
Today, the Annual General Meeting of Commerzbank approved all items on the
agenda by a large majority. Shareholders paid tribute to the achievements
delivered and clearly reaffirmed their support for the “Momentum 2030”
strategy and the Bank’s stand-alone course. They approved the dividend
proposal for the 2025 financial year of €1.10 per share (2024: €0.65) with
a majority of 99.88% (agenda item 2). In total, the dividend payment
amounts to around €1.2bn.
Together with two share buybacks already completed with a total volume of
around €1.5bn, Commerzbank will return a total of around €2.7bn to its
shareholders for the 2025 financial year. This corresponds to 100% of the
net result before restructuring expenses and after deduction of AT 1
coupon payments.
For the coming years, the Bank plans to continuously increase the capital
return. Commerzbank continues to rely on a combination of dividend
payments and share buybacks, with the share of the dividend to grow to at
least 50%. The share buybacks are subject to approval by the European
Central Bank and the Finance Agency.
The Annual General Meeting approved the necessary authorisations to
acquire and use its own shares (agenda items 7 and 8) – with majorities of
96.25% and of 97.79%, respectively. This means that Commerzbank has once
again the opportunity to acquire its own shares up to a volume of 10% of
the share capital via the stock exchange or through multilateral trading
systems.
The shareholders voted on the other key items on the agenda as follows:
Ratification of the Board of Managing Directors and Supervisory Board
(agenda items 3 and 4)
The actions by the members of the Board of Managing Directors were
ratified by the Annual General Meeting with a majority between 99.58% and
99.64%. The actions by the members of the Supervisory Board were ratified
with a majority between 98.36% and 99.64%.
Remuneration report for the members of the Board of Managing Directors and
Supervisory Board (agenda item 6)
The Annual General Meeting approved the remuneration report for the 2025
financial year with a majority of 91.28%.
Further information on this year’s Annual General Meeting can be found at
1 www.commerzbank.de/agm. Photos of the event are also available
2 online.
Press contact
Erik Nebel +49 69 9353-45712
Svea Junge +49 69 9353-45691
Investors’ contact
Michael Desprez +49 69 9353-47705
Ute Sandner +49 69 9353-47708
About Commerzbank
With its two business segments – Corporate Clients and Private and
Small-Business Customers –, Commerzbank, as a full-service bank, offers a
comprehensive portfolio of financial services. It is the leading bank in
the Corporate Clients Business in Germany and for the German Mittelstand
and a strong partner for around 24,000 corporate client groups and
accounts for approximately 30% of German foreign trade. The Bank is
present internationally in more than 40 countries in the corporate
clients’ business – wherever its Mittelstand clients, large corporates,
and institutional clients need it. In addition, Commerzbank supports its
international clients with a business relationship to Germany, Austria, or
Switzerland and companies operating in selected future-oriented
industries. With more than €400bn assets under management, Commerzbank is
also one of the leading banks for private and small-business customers in
Germany. Under the brand Commerzbank, it offers a wide range of products
and services with an omni-channel approach: online and mobile, via phone
or video in the remote advisory centre, and in person at its around
400 locations across Germany. Under the brand comdirect, it offers all
core services as a digital primary bank 24/7 and, as a performance broker,
solutions for saving, investing, and securities trading. Its Polish
subsidiary mBank S.A. is an innovative digital bank that serves around
6 million private and corporate customers, predominantly in Poland, as
well as in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Disclaimer
This release contains forward-looking statements. Forward-looking
statements are statements that are not historical facts. In this release,
these statements concern inter alia the expected future business of
Commerzbank, efficiency gains and expected synergies, expected growth
prospects and other opportunities for an increase in value of Commerzbank
as well as expected future financial results, restructuring costs and
other financial developments and information. These forward-looking
statements are based on the management’s current plans, expectations,
estimates and projections. They are subject to a number of assumptions and
involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may
cause actual results and developments to differ materially from any future
results and developments expressed or implied by such forward-looking
statements. Such factors include, amongst others, the conditions in the
financial markets in Germany, in Europe, in the USA and other regions from
which Commerzbank derives a substantial portion of its revenues and in
which Commerzbank holds a substantial portion of its assets, the
development of asset prices and market volatility, especially due to the
ongoing European debt crisis, potential defaults of borrowers or trading
counterparties, the implementation of its strategic initiatives to improve
its business model, the reliability of its risk management policies,
procedures and methods, risks arising as a result of regulatory change and
other risks. Forward-looking statements therefore speak only as of the
date they are made. Commerzbank has no obligation to update or release any
revisions to the forward-looking statements contained in this release to
reflect events or circumstances after the date of this release.
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ISIN: DE000CBK1001
Category Code: MSCL
TIDM: CZB
LEI Code: 851WYGNLUQLFZBSYGB56
Sequence No.: 428032
EQS News ID: 2330940
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