With effect from January 1, 2007, the Group prepares its annual consolidated financial statements, and its consolidated interim financial statements, in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”) as published by the International Accounting Standards Board (“IASB”) and as endorsed by the European Union (“EU”). Since the Group does not use the “carve-out” relating to
hedge accounting included in IAS 39, “Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement,” as endorsed by the EU, its financial statements fully comply with IFRS as issued by the IASB.

The consolidated interim financial statements comply with IFRS issued and effective at December 31, 2006, which were unchanged at September 30, 2007. On this basis, the Group presents the accounting policies that are expected to be adopted when the Group prepares its first annual financial statements under IFRS. The segment information presented in this Report is based on IFRS 8, “Operating Segments,” with a reconciliation to IAS 14, “Segment Reporting”. IFRS 8, while approved by the IASB, has yet to be endorsed by the EU.

These interim financial statements conform to IAS 34, “Interim Financial Reporting”. They are the Group’s third IFRS interim financial statements for part of the period that will be covered by the first IFRS annual financial statements and IFRS 1, “First-time Adoption of International Reporting Standards,” has been applied. The interim financial statements, consisting of the supplementary information on accounting policies, segment information, income statement, balance sheet, other financial information and reconciliation of IFRS comparables from previous GAAP, do not include all of the information required for annual financial statements. Therefore, the financial statements included in this Interim Report should be read in conjunction with the U.S. GAAP financial statements and related notes included in Deutsche Bank’s 2006 Financial Report and SEC Form 20-F and the Transition Report – 2006 IFRS Comparatives (the “Transition Report”) which was published on April 19, 2007. The Transition Report which explains how the transition to IFRS affected the Group’s previously reported balance sheet and income statement under U.S. GAAP is available in the Investor Relations section of Deutsche Bank’s website.

In the process of preparing these financial statements, management has used judgment and made estimates and assumptions regarding the fair valuation of certain financial assets and liabilities, the allowance for credit losses, the impairment of assets other than loans, the realizability of deferred tax assets, legal, regulatory and tax contingencies, as well as other matters. These estimates and assumptions affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the balance sheet date, and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from management’s estimates. In the opinion of management, all adjustments, consisting of normal recurring adjustments, necessary for a fair presentation of the results of operations, financial position and cash flows have been reflected.

The preparation of the interim financial statements resulted in changes to the accounting policies as compared with the most recent annual financial statements prepared under U.S. GAAP. The accounting policies set out below were consistently applied to all periods presented. They were also applied in preparing the IFRS balance sheet as of January 1, 2006 for the purpose of transition to IFRS, as required by IFRS 1. The impact of the transition from U.S. GAAP to IFRS was described in the Transition Report and the effects on the comparative periods are presented in the section “Reconciliation of IFRS Comparables from Previous GAAP” of this Interim Report.

The accompanying financial statements as of September 30, 2007 and 2006 and for the three and nine months then ended are unaudited and include the accounts of Deutsche Bank AG and its subsidiaries. The financial statements are presented in euro. The results reported in these financial statements should not be regarded as necessarily indicative of results that may be expected for the entire year.