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Deutsche Bank DIGITAL

DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE AUDIT UPDATED 2026-09-22
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Enterprise Technology Stack & Vendor Relationships

Deutsche Bank AG is a German stock corporation headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, licensed for banking and financial services, and the direct or indirect holding company of the Deutsche Bank Group’s subsidiaries 1, 2.

As of 31 December 2025, Deutsche Bank Group reported 89,879 full-time-equivalent internal employees, operations in 55 countries, and 1,179 branches 1.

Deutsche Bank and Google Cloud announced a strategic multi-year cloud and innovation partnership in December 2020, including planned exploration of cloud infrastructure, data analytics, AI, lending, retail-interface and Autobahn-platform use cases 3.

A February 2024 registration-document supplement states that Deutsche Bank decided to migrate a large number of applications and storage systems to public cloud through Google Cloud, characterising the programme as material to resilience, security and legacy-system modernisation 4.

Deutsche Bank described Google Cloud as a cornerstone of its technology transformation in July 2026, supporting the conclusion that the partnership remained active at that date 5.

No public evidence identified of a direct Deutsche Bank licence, subscription or implementation relationship with Check Point, Wiz, SentinelOne, CyberArk, NICE, Verint, Claroty, Palo Alto Networks or the other specifically searched Israeli-origin vendors.

Surveillance, Biometrics & Retail Technology

No public evidence identified of Deutsche Bank using Israeli-origin facial recognition, biometric identification, behavioural analytics, gait analysis, predictive-policing, social-media-monitoring or workforce-surveillance products in the reviewed corporate technology disclosures 6.

No public evidence identified that such products reach Deutsche Bank through a named managed-security provider, systems integrator or bundled enterprise suite 6.

The reviewed non-financial reporting describes Deutsche Bank’s innovation-network offices but does not identify a surveillance, biometric or retail-technology deployment in Israel 6.

Cloud Infrastructure, Data Residency & Sovereign Cloud Participation

The reviewed Google Cloud materials establish a public-cloud migration relationship but do not establish that Deutsche Bank customer or bank data are stored, routed, processed or legally accessible in Israel 3, 4.

No Israel-specific data-residency commitment or Israeli-cloud-region commitment was identified in the reviewed Deutsche Bank and Google Cloud disclosures 3, 4.

No public evidence identified that Deutsche Bank operates, leases or co-locates a data centre in Israel.

No public evidence identified that Deutsche Bank participates in Project Nimbus or holds a verified contract, subcontract or service role in an Israeli government cloud programme 3, 4.

No public evidence identified that Deutsche Bank markets or provides sovereign-cloud, data-residency or infrastructure-resilience services to Israeli state institutions or military bodies 3, 4.

Defence, Intelligence & Security Sector Technology Relationships

No public evidence identified of a Deutsche Bank technology contract, partnership or service agreement with the Israeli Ministry of Defence, Israel Defense Forces, Israeli intelligence agencies or another Israeli state-security body.

No public evidence identified that Deutsche Bank technology was deployed for Israeli military, intelligence or law-enforcement surveillance in Israel or the occupied territories.

No public evidence identified of Deutsche Bank developing, licensing, selling or maintaining offensive cyber tools, exploit capabilities or digital weapons for Israeli state actors.

The group’s 2025 shareholdings list identifies Deutsche Global Markets Limited and Deutsche Securities Israel Ltd. as wholly owned Tel Aviv-domiciled subsidiaries, respectively classified as an ancillary-services undertaking and financial institution 7.

The available shareholdings disclosure establishes domicile, ownership and broad activity classification for those subsidiaries, but does not establish their specific activities, staffing, customer base, data-processing location or technology stack 7.

No conclusion can be drawn from the reviewed corporate materials on whether the Tel Aviv subsidiaries operate only in Israel or serve customers or activities in occupied territory 7.

AI, Algorithmic & Autonomous Systems

Deutsche Bank’s disclosed cloud-related AI work includes financial-services innovation and data-analytics applications, while the reviewed disclosures do not identify an Israeli state, military or security customer or an Israel/occupied-territory dataset 3, 4.

No public evidence identified of Deutsche Bank supplying AI or machine-learning systems, computer vision, autonomous decision support, target-generation or autonomous tracking systems to Israeli state, military or security bodies.

Google Cloud’s stated partnership scope included exploration of AI use cases, but the available disclosure does not identify an Israeli-jurisdiction data flow or a defence, intelligence or surveillance application 3.

Technology Ecosystem & R&D Footprint

In March 2018, then-Chief Executive John Cryan reportedly said that Deutsche Bank would establish a technology centre in Israel, without specifying its scope, location, staffing or opening date 8.

Deutsche Bank’s 2022 non-financial report lists innovation-network offices in New York, Palo Alto, London, Berlin and Singapore, and does not itself confirm an Israeli technology centre 6.

The absence of an Israeli technology centre from that 2022 office list does not establish that the 2018 proposal was cancelled 6, 8.

SeaLights announced in October 2021 that Deutsche Bank participated in SeaLights’ USD 30 million Series B financing, describing SeaLights as a cloud-based, machine-learning-enabled software-quality-governance platform for software-development and release-risk decisions 9.

An Israeli law firm stated that it represented Deutsche Bank AG in the SeaLights investment and described SeaLights Technologies Ltd. as an Israeli company 10.

The available sources verify the investment but do not establish Deutsche Bank’s investment amount, ownership position, board rights, internal deployment of SeaLights software or the investment’s present status 9, 10.

No public evidence identified of a Deutsche Bank acquisition of an Israeli technology company, a Deutsche Bank-operated Israeli accelerator, or material co-development or patent arrangements with Israeli universities or research institutions.

Civil Society Scrutiny & Regulatory History

A supplied document-scoped pre-scan found no full-text mention of Deutsche Bank in the 2025 OHCHR settlement-business database update, which does not establish absence from all authoritative-source records or database editions 11.

The reviewed materials identify Deutsche Bank’s 79.49% ownership and voting-interest position in DWS Group GmbH & Co. KGaA as of 31 December 2025 1, 7.

No public evidence identified of an organised boycott, divestment, regulatory, export-control or sanctions action specifically concerning Deutsche Bank’s technology provision to Israeli state entities or operations in occupied territories.

No public evidence identified in the reviewed entity records of a Deutsche Bank shareholder holding or controlling 10% or more, while the Form 20-F states that no corporation, government, natural person or legal person directly or indirectly controls Deutsche Bank 1.

Footnotes

  1. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1159508/000115950826000017/db-20251231.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  2. https://www.db.com/imprint ↩

  3. https://www.db.com/news/detail/20201204-deutsche-bank-and-google-cloud-sign-pioneering-cloud-and-innovation-partnership ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  4. https://annualreport.deutsche-bank.com/files/documents/registration-documents/3rd-Supplement-Registration-Document-2023.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  5. https://www.db.com/news/detail/20260702-how-do-you-modernise-the-tech-stack-of-a-150-year-old-bank?language_id=1 ↩

  6. https://investor-relations.db.com/files/documents/annual-reports/2023/Non-Financial-Report-2022.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  7. https://investor-relations.db.com/files/documents/annual-reports/2025/List-of-Shareholdings-2025.pdf?language_id=1 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  8. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0%2C7340%2CL-3734726%2C00.html ↩ ↩2

  9. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sealights-announces-30-million-series-b-to-revolutionize-software-quality-at-scale-301402666.html ↩ ↩2

  10. https://www.gornitzky.com/our-firm-represented-deutsche-bank-ag-global-in-its-investment-in-the-israeli-company-sealights-technologies-ltd/ ↩ ↩2

  11. https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/un-human-rights-office-updates-database-businesses-involved-israeli ↩