Profit before tax for H1 2025 rose to €5.3 billion, more than doubling year-on-year.
Sustainable finance and ESG investment volumes reached €28 billion in Q2 2025, the highest quarterly result since 2021, bringing the cumulative total since 2020 to €417 billion.
Deutsche Bank played a key role in landmark sustainable finance transactions, including Slovenia’s first €1 billion sustainability-linked bond and the €1.4 billion debt financing for NeXtWind.
Deutsche Bank posted a profit before tax of €5.3 billion for the first half of 2025, more than doubling its performance compared to the same period last year. The bank also reported its strongest sustainable finance quarter in four years, with €28 billion in sustainable financing and ESG investments, pushing cumulative volumes since January 1, 2020, to €417 billion.
In Q2 2025, the corporate bank contributed €7 billion, raising its cumulative total to €81 billion. The investment bank added €17 billion, bringing its cumulative total to €253 billion, while the private bank grew ESG assets and client lending by €5 billion for a cumulative total of €74 billion.
“Sustainability deprioritized? Well, see what our clients are doing,” said Jörg Eigendorf, Deutsche Bank’s Chief Sustainability Officer, highlighting the growing demand for ESG-aligned financing.
Key transactions in Q2 included Deutsche Bank acting as Lender, Mandated Lead Arranger, and Hedge Provider for Australia’s first Renewable Energy Zone transmission network PPP, which is expected to supply power to over two million homes annually. The bank also acted as Global Coordinator to NeXtWind in a €1.4 billion debt financing deal to repower and optimize onshore wind parks and as Joint Lead Manager for Slovenia’s inaugural €1 billion 10-year sustainability-linked bond.
“All of this demonstrates: our clients, whether corporate, institutional or private, want solutions to finance the transition of the energy infrastructure and link their performance to sustainability indicators. It has become a normal part of doing business and prudent risk management – as it has become for us,” Eigendorf added.
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Deutsche Bank also advanced its ESG commitments by publishing an updated Human Rights Statement, a Supply Chain Due Diligence Act Policy Statement, and the 2024 Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement. The bank received the ‘berufundfamilie +vielfalt’ certification in Germany for its family-friendly and inclusive workplace policies. It further engaged in global ESG discussions by hosting a workshop with rainforest nations on carbon credit development at the UN Climate Conference in Bonn (SB 61) and sponsoring CDP’s annual DACH disclosure workshop.
The bank’s sustainable financing and ESG investment activities are defined under its “Sustainable Financing Framework” and “Deutsche Bank ESG Investments Framework,” with further details available on its investor relations site. Additional insights on second-quarter performance can be found in Deutsche Bank’s Interim Report as of June 30, 2025.
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