The Deka Group’s sustainability reports and ratings

Starting from the 2024 fiscal year, Deka Group will prepare the sustainability report in accordance with the framework of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) on a consolidated basis (see EU-CSRD Directive 2022/2464, Article 29a)). The sustainability reports from 2016 to 2023 are still available.

Sustainability Reporting

The present sustainability reporting of the Deka Group (Group Sustainability Statement) was prepared for the first time using the CSRD/ESRS framework and included as a separate section in the Group Management Report.

Annual Report 2024 9313 KB

Climate transition plan of DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale

In its role as a financial intermediary, the financial sector makes an important contribution to financing the investments required to achieve the global climate targets. DekaBank's climate transition plan forms an important framework for this.

The Deka Group's integrated business model makes it possible to define individual transition plans for the individual business activities in order to take the requirements and needs of its business partners into account in a special way.

Climate transition plan 2024 3329 KB

Deka Group’s ESG ratings

The central objective of the measures under the EU Action Plan for Financing Sustainable Growth is to channel the capital of private and institutional investors into sustainable investments in order to finance the necessary investments in climate and environmental protection. Also as a result of these measures, the proportion of investors who take sustainability criteria into account when investing has continued to rise in recent years.

DekaBank is an issuer of public bonds, mortgage bonds, bearer bonds and certificates under the Green Bond Framework. We take great care to meet the requirements of the sustainability rating agencies so that we can successfully place our bonds on the market. In addition, the agencies’ criteria reflect the requirements of important Deka Group stakeholder groups – such as environmental associations, human rights organisations and trade unions. We use the sustainability ratings as the basis for the regular analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of our sustainability management – including in comparison with other banks.

Sustainability ratings

As of September 6, 2024, Deka received an MSCI ESG Rating of A.

As of December 29, 2025

C Prime

As of August 19, 2025

ESG Risk Rating: 19.0 "Low Risk"

The rating scales of the rating agencies:

MSCI: AAA to CCC (Peer Group: Asset Management & Custody Banks)
ISS-ESG: A+ to D- (Peer Group: Financials/Public & Regional Banks)
Sustainalytics: 0 - 40+ (Peer Group: Asset Management & Custody Services)

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