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DBS honoured as ‘World’s Best Bank’ for fourth straight year
For the fourth consecutive year, DBS has been recognized as the World’s Best Bank, entrenching the bank’s position as an industry leader reshaping the future of banking. DBS’ most recent global best bank accolade comes from leading UK-based financial publication Euromoney, which has honored DBS with the ‘World’s Best Bank’ title for the second time in three years, in its Awards for Excellence 2021. Euromoney also named DBS ‘World’s Best Digital Bank’, making it the first time any bank in the world has held both titles concurrently.
Louise Bowman, Editor of Euromoney, said: “Of all the banks we cover worldwide, DBS was the one that most clearly demonstrated a rare skill: not just surviving a crisis, but using it as a chance to innovate and to be a better bank. As well as fortitude and profitability, it showed opportunism and smart thinking, all underpinned by its digital leadership.”
During the Covid-19 pandemic, DBS doubled down to help its customers and the wider community remained resilient in crisis. It approved more than 12,000 collateral-free loans totalling over SGD 6.2 billion, and SGD 11 billion in loan moratoriums for micro, small and medium enterprise (MSME) customers. It also allowed homeowners across its regional markets to defer mortgage repayments amounting to SGD 5.2 billion in mortgage relief in 2020. At the height of the pandemic, DBS also harnessed its wider tech infrastructure to facilitate Singapore government pay-outs of more than SGD 31 billion digitally to support families and businesses in need.
At the same time, the bank wasted no time in fortifying its business for the future. Over the past year, DBS leveraged its strong capital position to execute strategic transactions to anchor its growth in two of its key markets – amalgamating Lakshmi Vilas Bank in India, and acquiring a 13% stake in Shenzhen Rural Commercial Bank in China, becoming its largest shareholder as a result.
As an industry leader in digital innovation, DBS also launched several ground-breaking initiatives that tap on emerging technologies such as blockchain and artificial intelligence. They include:
- DBS Digital Exchange, a blockchain-based ecosystem for fundraising through asset tokenization and secondary trading of digital assets including cryptocurrencies.
- Climate Impact X, a global exchange and marketplace for high quality carbon credits.
- Partior, a blockchain-based open industry platform that disrupts the traditional cross-border payments model.
- DBS NAV Planner, a revolutionary digital advisory solution powered by over 100 AI models that helps customers with financial planning, retirement planning, and taking a self-directed approach to investing digitally.
Piyush Gupta, DBS CEO, said: “We are honored that Euromoney has chosen to recognize us as World’s Best Bank and World’s Best Digital Bank once again. In a difficult pandemic year, we are heartened that we have been able to strongly support customers, employees and the community, while delivering a resilient set of earnings. At the same time, we decided early on to use the crisis as a platform to further reposition ourselves fundamentally as a bank of the future. We acquired stakes in banks in India and China to cement our position in Asia, and also launched new landmark digital initiatives. As we looked at key trends which we believe will re-shape the post-pandemic world – trends such as hyper-digitalization, supply chain shifts, and an increased sustainability focus – seven or eight big business ideas emerged. Our digital and carbon exchanges, new blockchain payments joint venture, and AI digital advisor NAV Planner, were borne out of this.”
DBS’ first global best bank accolade was conferred by Global Finance in 2018, when the New-York based publication named it ‘Best Bank in the World’. In the same year, DBS was Financial Times publication The Banker’s pick for ‘Global Bank of the Year’. Euromoney and Global Finance honored DBS with their most prestigious best bank accolades in 2019 and 2020 respectively, the latter award given in recognition of DBS’ wide-ranging support for customers, employees and the community during the Covid-19 pandemic. The 2021 Euromoney title makes it the fourth year in a row that DBS has picked up a global Best Bank accolade. Earlier this year, DBS also clinched The Banker’s most prestigious digital banking award, and was named the Global winner in The Banker’s Innovation in Digital Banking Awards 2021.
Chiba Bank, a regional bank dedicated to serving the communities and businesses within Japan’s Chiba prefecture, has entered into a partnership with Moneythor to enhance personalized banking experiences. Through this collaboration, Chiba Bank aims to offer tailored services to its customers.
Utilizing Moneythor’s financial services personalization engine, Chiba Bank will integrate advanced features into its Chibagin app. This app enables users to perform various banking tasks such as checking account balances, transferring funds, making deposits, conducting loan transactions, and paying taxes and utility bills—all without the need to visit one of the bank’s 181 branches across Japan.
Moneythor’s engine deployment promises to provide app users with personalized insights tailored to their unique preferences. These insights encompass money management, savings capabilities, and cash flow predictions, enriching the overall digital banking experience.
Chiba Bank anticipates that this technology will foster stronger connections with its customers and enhance their digital banking journey. Moreover, Moneythor’s extensive global experience is seen as a valuable asset, offering financial insights and best practices to further refine the bank’s digital banking offerings.
As a self-designated engagement banking group with significant assets, Chiba Bank has been implementing a mid-term plan since April last year. This plan focuses on evolving its customer-focused business model through personalized proposals, enhancing existing business models, and exploring new business areas. The bank aims to achieve these objectives by March 31, 2026.
Hideki Shibata, Executive Officer and General Manager of the Digital Strategies Unit at Chiba Bank, believes that the adoption of the Moneythor engine will empower customers with personalized insights and recommendations aligned with their interests. This initiative reflects the bank’s commitment to providing personalized, seamless, and engaging digital experiences, thereby fostering a sense of community among its customers and catering to their evolving digital needs.
Source: fintechfutures.com
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barq, a fintech application, and TerraPay, a global money transfer company, have formed a strategic partnership to offer rapid and secure international money transfer services. This collaboration harnesses TerraPay’s expansive global payments network, aligning with barq’s objective of broadening its service portfolio to meet the increasing demands of the fintech sector.
TerraPay and barq Forge Alliance
The partnership is poised to strengthen barq’s capabilities in providing efficient financial services both domestically within Saudi Arabia and internationally. This development comes on the heels of barq obtaining a license from the Saudi Central Bank in January.
Ahmed Alenazi, CEO of barq, expressed his enthusiasm, stating: “We are thrilled to partner with TerraPay to enhance our international money transfer services. This collaboration underscores our commitment to innovation and ensuring customer satisfaction.”
Ani Sane, Co-Founder & Chief Business Officer at TerraPay, remarked: “This partnership is more than just another agreement; it exemplifies our dedication to supporting promising initiatives in Saudi Arabia like barq. Through this collaboration, we aim to deliver swift, efficient, and secure international money transfer services that adhere to global standards.”
Developed in Riyadh, barq is expected to make a significant impact on Saudi Arabia’s fintech landscape with its services, secure payment methods, and experienced team.
Ani Sane’s comments reflect the shared commitment of both companies to deliver high-quality financial services and contribute to the advancement of the fintech sector in Saudi Arabia.
Source: financemagnates.com
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LONDON, May 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — CUBE, a global leader in Automated Regulatory Intelligence (ARI) and Regulatory Change Management (RCM), announces today its acquisition of the Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence and Oden products and businesses.
The acquisition of these global businesses represents a major step forward in CUBE’s growth plans. It will deliver significant scale across many of the world’s leading and systemically important financial institutions. CUBE’s existing global customer base will be expanded to total approximately 1,000 customers in banking, insurance, asset and investment management, payments and adjacent regulated industries.
CUBE’s global employees will expand to 600, of which close to 250 are highly qualified regulatory subject matter experts, legal and compliance professionals.
Ben Richmond, founder and CEO of CUBE said: “Thomson Reuters is known to be the biggest and best in the industry for providing regulatory expert analysis and subject matter expertise, alongside world-leading journalism and news. The combination of CUBE’s purpose-built AI, with the years of content curated by Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence and Oden expert analysts, will accelerate innovation. Together, we will deliver regulatory transformation capabilities for our global customers that could only have been imagined before.”
Richmond continues: “This combination will provide tremendous scale and depth across CUBE’s regulatory content and technology. It is a significant step toward creating an industry-defining regulatory compliance and risk platform that will benefit all customers and elevate the industry as a whole.”
Through this acquisition, CUBE will provide an expanded and comprehensive selection of specialized regulatory intelligence and regulatory change services, committed to excellence, quality, and highly contextualised and meaningful regulatory content for customers. By combining cutting-edge technology and subject matter expertise at scale CUBE will set a new bar for the industry in regulatory automation and content.
Chris Maguire, General Manager, Risk and Fraud, Corporates, Thomson Reuters said: “It was clear to us that CUBE had established itself as a leading regulatory intelligence provider for global enterprise clients in the financial services and insurance sectors. We wanted to ensure our customers and employees could work with an organisation that would continue to innovate and significantly invest in solutions like Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence and Oden. We are working tirelessly to ensure a seamless and value-enhancing transition for customers and employees, and we are looking forward to working with the CUBE team during this transition.”
Christopher Fielding, Hg, said: “We’re delighted to further extend our market reach, bringing in two high quality and complementary global businesses to the CUBE platform.”
Thomas Martin, Hg, added: “We see these acquisitions as enabling further innovation in the regulatory intelligence and change management sector, leading to strengthened demand for these quality solutions across the globe.”
The terms of the transaction will not be disclosed.
About CUBE
CUBE provides a highly comprehensive and robust source of classified, and meaningful AI-driven regulatory data to power its Automated Regulatory Intelligence (ARI) and Regulatory Change Management (RCM) solutions. CUBE’s purpose-built regulatory technology including its AI engine (RegBrain) and software platform (RegPlatform) tracks, analyses, and monitors laws, rules, and regulations in every country and in every published language to create an always up-to-date regulatory footprint that transforms visibility and compliance capability for customers across the globe.
With operations across Europe, North America, Canada, Asia, and Australia, CUBE serves a diverse and global base of customers and partners including the largest financial institutions in the world who leverage CUBE’s platform to streamline their complex regulatory intelligence and change management processes.
Following the strategic partnership with Hg in March 2024, CUBE announced the acquisition of US-based Reg-Room in May 2024.
About Hg
Hg supports the building of sector-leading enterprises that supply businesses with critical software applications or workflow services, delivering a more automated workplace for their customers.
This industry is characterised by digitisation trends that are in early stages of adoption and are set to transform the workplace for professionals over decades to come. Hg’s support combines deep end-market knowledge with world class operational resources, together providing compelling support to entrepreneurial leaders looking to scale their business – businesses that are well invested, enduring and serve their customers well.
With a vast European network and strong presence across North America, Hg’s 400 employees and around $70 billion in funds under management support a portfolio of around 50 businesses, worth over $140 billion aggregate enterprise value, with over 110,000 employees, consistently growing revenues at more than 20%.
About Regulatory Intelligence
Regulatory Intelligence is a proactive, connected, and comprehensive solution that tracks and analyses regulatory changes within ~2,000 regulatory bodies and rulebooks for more than 20 countries. It enables banking, financial services, and insurance (BFSI) sectors to manage exposure to operational, regulatory, and compliance risk.
About Oden
Oden State Rules and Regulations (SR&R), Oden Policy Terminator/Sentry PT, and OdenTrack provide repositories and automated solutions for complying with state rules and regulations on the provisioning of Personal and Business Insurance in the US.
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