Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank AG is a leading global investment bank, renowned for its heavy influence and strong presence in the financial services industry. The banking firm is a major player in the international banking sector, offering services including investment banking, corporate banking, private wealth management and asset management. Deutsche Bank, as of 2025, operates in over 60 countries. They provide services to individuals, companies and institutional clients worldwide.
Sustainability at Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank has a modern approach to sustainability, recognising its increasing importance in the global financial landscape. Hence, it has committed to integrating Environmental, Social and Governance considerations into its operations, investments and lending practices. The firm’s four “sustainability pillars” include:
● sustainable finance
● policies and commitments
● people and own operations
● thought leadership and stakeholder engagement
As a part of this commitment, factors such as climate and environmental risk are incorporated into the firm’s business and investment strategies.
EDI at Deutsche Bank
The firm also builds its core on foundations of a belief in the importance of diversity and inclusion, and this helps to form their Global Hausbank ambitions. Such foundations are manifested on four different fronts:
● gender equality
● ethnic diversity and inclusion
● disability inclusion
● LGBTQ+ inclusion
Deutsche Bank aims to ensure that employees feel a sense of belonging, and all teams have different skills, backgrounds and experiences. Their ATLAS programme for women had a 100% success rate of alumni moving into new and more senior roles including onto the Management Board, and from 2025 the firm will also be partnered with the Oxford Afro-Caribbean Society.
Early Careers at Deutsche Bank
Alongside their EDI and sustainability initiatives, Deutsche Bank sports many different access and early careers events for students looking to break into the world of finance.
●Advance - the four-day Advance programme is designed to help students from lower socio-economic backgrounds discover where a career in banking could take them. The programme’s sessions include an introduction to Deutsche Bank as a business, their clients, and their role in society as well as meeting many of their leaders and role models
● GROW - GROW (Graduate Outreach for Women) is a four-day development programme for first-year students who identify as women. The programme allows students to improve their employability skills, meet students with similar interests, and speak to senior colleagues and recent graduates to learn about the opportunities offered across all the divisions at Deutsche Bank.
● RISE - Rise is a development programme aimed towards students of Black heritage to introduce Deutsche Bank and the different divisions we have within the bank. During the programme participants will participate in structured workshops and masterclass sessions delivered by the Early Careers team to help to improve their employability skills. The firm also provide numerous opportunities to speak to and learn from senior colleagues and recent graduates through networking sessions and panel discussions.
●Spring into Banking - this four-day scheme provides students with an overview of Deutsche Bank and the different divisions present within the organisation. This programme is designed for people who are looking to learn more about the opportunities for students within the banking and finance industry, and participants are exposed to different areas of the bank, and given the opportunity to shadow various desks within a division to see what goes on behind the scenes
For more information on Early Careers at Deutsche Bank, see their webpage on Insight Programmes.