REG-Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft Commerzbank starts share buyback of €1bn

COMMERZBANK AGAnnouncement

24/09/2025 12:45

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   Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft (CZB)
   Commerzbank starts share buyback of €1bn

   24-Sep-2025 / 13:41 CET/CEST
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   24 September 2025

    

   Commerzbank starts share buyback of €1bn

     • Buyback to begin on 25 September and expected to be completed no later
       than 10 February 2026
     • CEO Bettina Orlopp: “Returning capital to our shareholders is a core
       element of our value creation strategy.”
     • CFO Carsten Schmitt: “We are committed to continuing to offer our
       shareholders highly attractive returns in the future. Therefore, we
       plan to steadily increase the capital return until 2028.”
     • In preparation for planned employee share programme, buyback of own
       shares with volume of up to €15.5m to begin

    

   Today, the Board of Managing Directors of Commerzbank AG has decided to
   start the next share buyback programme. The European Central Bank (ECB)
   and the German Finance Agency had previously approved the programme. It is
   Commerzbank’s fifth share buyback since 2023.

   The Bank plans to repurchase shares worth up to €1bn starting on 25
   September of this year. The buyback is expected to be completed no later
   than 10 February 2026. The repurchased shares are planned to be redeemed
   by the Bank at a later stage. The buyback is part of the capital return
   for the 2025 financial year, which will consist of the buyback of own
   shares and a dividend to be resolved at the next annual general meeting.

   “Returning capital to our shareholders is a core element of our value
   creation strategy. This ensures our shareholders are directly
   participating in the success of Commerzbank,” said Bettina Orlopp, CEO of
   Commerzbank. “For the current financial year, we aim to return 100% of our
   net result before restructuring expenses and after AT1 coupon payments.”
   CFO Carsten Schmitt added: “We are committed to continuing to offer our
   shareholders highly attractive returns in the future. Therefore, we plan
   to steadily increase the capital return until 2028.”

   The Board of Managing Directors has also decided today that Commerzbank
   will purchase its own shares at a total acquisition price of up to €15.5m
   for the planned employee share programme that is expected to start this
   autumn.

   Progress on the share buybacks will be published weekly on Commerzbank’s
    1 website.

    

   Press contact

   Kathrin Jones  +49 151 70662295

   Silvana Herold  +49 151 18481453

    

   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.
   Commerzbank transacts approximately 30% of Germany’s foreign trade
   financing. 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 approximately 5.8 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: MSCU
   TIDM:          CZB
   LEI Code:      851WYGNLUQLFZBSYGB56
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   EQS News ID:   2203208


    
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