REG-Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft Commerzbank completes share buyback of €524m

COMMERZBANK AGAnnouncement

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   Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft (CZB)
   Commerzbank completes share buyback of €524m

   09-March-2026 / 15:57 CET/CEST
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     • Total of 15,676,410 own shares repurchased (1.39% of share capital)
     • CEO Bettina Orlopp: “The completion of the share buyback is an
       important milestone in our capital return for the 2025 financial
       year.”

   Commerzbank AG successfully completed its sixth share buyback on Monday, 9
   March 2026. Commerzbank had started the buyback with a volume of €524m on
   12 February 2026. Since then, it has repurchased a total of 15,676,410 of
   its own shares (ISIN DE000CBK1001) at an average price of around €33.45
   per share. This corresponds to 1.39% of the Bank’s share capital.
   Commerzbank plans to redeem the repurchased shares at a later stage.

   “The completion of the share buyback is an important milestone in our
   capital return for the 2025 financial year,” said Bettina Orlopp, CEO of
   Commerzbank. “Together with the extensive share buyback, which we
   completed in December, we have already returned €1.5bn to our
   shareholders. Our proposal for a record dividend totalling around €1.2bn
   complements the highly attractive return package.”

   The capital return of a total of €2.7bn for the 2025 financial year
   corresponds to 100% of Commerzbank’s net result before restructuring
   expenses and after deduction of Additional Tier 1 (AT 1) coupon payments.
   For the years 2022 to 2025, the Bank will have returned a total of around
   €5.8bn to its shareholders, provided that the Annual General Meeting this
   May approves the dividend proposal of the Board of Managing Directors and
   the Supervisory Board of €1.10 per share (2024: €0.65).

   As part of its “Momentum” strategy, the Bank aims to further grow its net
   result in the coming years. Based on this, capital returns are intended to
   continue to increase steadily. For the current financial year, the Bank
   aims to return 100% of its net result to its shareholders after deduction
   of AT 1 coupon payments. Commerzbank plans a corresponding payout ratio of
   100% for the following years 2027 and 2028 as well.

   Further information on the now completed share buyback is available on
   Commerzbank’s  1 website.

    

   Press contact
   Svea Junge  +49 69 9353-45691
   Erik Nebel  +49 69 9353-45712

   Investors’ contact
   Ute Sandner  +49 69 9353-47708
   Ansgar Herkert  +49 69 9353-47706

    

   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 personally in its around
   400 branches. 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 5.9 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.:  420425
   EQS News ID:   2288150


    
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