22/05/2019
At today’s regular Annual General Meeting of Commerzbank AG in Wiesbaden, shareholders voted as follows on the key items on the agenda:
Resolution on the appropriation of distributable profit (item 2)
The Annual General Meeting voted, as proposed by the Board of Managing Directors and the Supervisory Board, to use the distributable profit for financial year 2018 in an amount of approximately €262 million, to pay a dividend of €0.20 per dividend-bearing share and to allocate the remaining amount to profit reserves. The resolution was passed with a majority of 99.5%.
Discharge (items 3 and 4)
The members of the Board of Managing Directors and Supervisory Board were discharged with a majority of 99.8% and 99.2% respectively.
Anticipatory resolutions on authorised and additional core capital (items 7 to 9)
The Annual General Meeting resolved to revise the stock resolutions on authorised capital as proposed. Furthermore, the Board of Managing Directors was granted a new authorisation to issue profit participation rights and other hybrid bonds which are recognised as additional Tier 1 capital (AT 1 Capital). The anticipatory resolutions are intended to replace the yet valid decisions of 2015.
The precise voting results on the individual items on the agenda can be found at www.commerzbank.com/agm.
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About Commerzbank
Commerzbank is a leading international commercial bank with branches and offices in almost 50 countries. In the two business segments Private and Small-Business Customers and Corporate Clients, the Bank offers a comprehensive portfolio of financial services which is precisely aligned to its clients’ needs. Commerzbank finances approximately 30% of Germany’s foreign trade and is the leading finance provider for corporate clients in Germany. Due to its in-depth sector know-how in the German economy, the Bank is a leading provider of capital market products. Its subsidiaries Comdirect in Germany and mBank in Poland are two of the world’s most innovative online banks. With approximately 1,000 branches, Commerzbank has one of the densest branch networks among German private banks. In total, Commerzbank serves more than 18 million private and small business customers, as well as more than 70,000 corporate clients, multinationals, financial service providers, and institutional clients worldwide. In 2018, it generated gross revenues of €8.6 billion with approximately 49,000 employees.
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