Deutsche Bank recorded its strongest annual sustainable finance and ESG investment volumes in four years in 2025, as well as its second-best quarter since 2020, according to the bank’s recently released annual results, with CEO Christian Sewing citing “renewed demand from our clients.”
In total, Deutsche Bank reported that total volumes for Sustainable Financing and ESG investment reached €98 billion in 2025, with cumulative volumes since 2020 reaching €471 billion, putting the bank to track to achieve its goal to achieve €900 billion by 2030.
Commenting on the bank’s sustainable finance activity at Deutsche Bank’s Annual Media Conference following the release of the 2025 results, Sewing said:
“Allow me to briefly address this, as attention to the topic has noticeably declined in recent years. We must not ease up in the sustainable transformation of our economy. That is why sustainability remains a priority for us at Deutsche Bank.”
Deutsche Bank’s annual results indicated that the bank saw higher sustainable finance and ESG investment volumes across each of its businesses in 2025, compared with the prior year, with its Investment Banking business as the strongest contributor, recording €67 billion in sustainable finance volume for the year, up from €57 billion in 2024, and €39 billion in 2023. In its Corporate Bank business, Deutsche Bank reported sustainable finance volumes of €20.2 billion, up from €17.2 billion in 2024, while in its Private Bank unit, the bank reported that sustainable finance volumes reached €11.6 billion, up from €8.9 billion in the prior year.
The annual results follows the launch by Deutsche Bank in November of a series of updates to its sustainability strategy, including expanding the strategy to target opportunities for funding net zero transitions in hard to abate sectors, alongside the release of a Transition Finance framework defining its rules and parameters for transition finance transactions, and the introduction of a target to facilitate €900 billion sustainable finance, ESG investments, and transition finance between 2020 and the end of 2030.
Deutsche Bank’s €471 billion cumulative volumes include those defined under its Sustainable Finance and ESG Investments frameworks.
Sewing said:
“We are also seeing renewed demand from our clients: 2025 was the second best year for sustainable financing and investments – which is also why we have set ourselves the ambitious goal of increasing the total volume to 900 billion euros by 2030, including transition financing.”
