Deutsche Bank uses AI to cut some corporate lending decisions from weeks to minutes

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Deutsche Bank is using AI to accelerate corporate lending decisions, cutting response times for some small-business financing applications from weeks to minutes, while those for large multinational companies are being reduced from months to weeks. The bank is building an internal platform, ADA, to develop, monitor and control AI agents, manage security risks and switch between different AI models. Deutsche Bank plans to invest another €2.5 billion ($2.8 billion) in technology from 2026 to 2028.