Carrying out banking business in the Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) division of the Deutsche Bank Group, in particular the issuance and trading of interest-bearing securities, syndicate transactions, the sale of structured and fixed-income financial products, foreign exchange, money market and repo transactions, trading and placement of participation certificates domestically and abroad, buying and selling derivative products in the financial sector, promoting private equity investments, mergers and acquisitions, financing, services in the area of cash transactions, commission, deposit and trust business, granting loans to companies and institutional clients, and performing all other actions, activities and services that are related to the foregoing or may be beneficial thereto; may acquire, hold, sell and encumber real estate and participate in companies.