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Franklin Templeton, Ripple Join Forces To Launch Tokenized Money Market Funds For Accredited Investors Of This Asian Banking Giant

Singapore’s largest bank, DBS Group Holdings (OTC:DBSDY), asset management firm Franklin Templeton and blockchain company Ripple Labs (CRYPTO: XRP) have teamed up to provide accredited investors trading solutions backed by tokenized money market funds and U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoins.

Benzinga · Sep 18, 2025

Southeast Asia’s three largest banks warn of macroeconomic headwinds following a mixed quarter

DBS’s quarterly profit grew by 1%, yet the bank acknowledged “external uncertainties.” Profits at fellow banks UOB and OCBC fell.

Fortune · Aug 7, 2025

DBS Group’s board tells its chief exec: 'Even the CEO’s job can be replaced by AI'

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Fortune · Jul 28, 2025

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The CEO of Southeast Asia’s largest bank knows even her job is at risk from AI

“If I can be replaced by AI, so can everything else!”

Fortune · Jul 23, 2025

OCBC’s next CEO shows the Singaporean bank is still betting on ASEAN-China ties for growth

OCBC’s CEO-to-be comes with a wealth of China experience, including a five-year stint leading DBS’s institutional banking business in China.

Fortune · Jul 14, 2025

Can Adobe Stock Hit $660 in 2025?

Adobe has taken a hit, but with a $660 target on the table, can it bounce back this year?

Barchart · Jul 8, 2025

Trump touts a Vietnam trade deal victory—but details on transshipment and import pledges remain unclear

Trump said the U.S. will impose a 20% tariff on Vietnamese exports to the U.S. Goods transshipped through Vietnam will get 40%.

Fortune · Jul 3, 2025

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What Southeast Asia's largest companies say about a region in flux

Total revenue on the Southeast Asia 500 grew by almost 2% last year—but Trump trade policy could unwind those gains.

Fortune · Jun 16, 2025

Outgoing DBS CEO Piyush Gupta gets a 57% pay bump, reversing a massive cut in 2023

Gupta will take home $13.2 million following the bank's "stellar all-round performance as well as its improved technology resiliency.”

Fortune · Mar 6, 2025

“I love the topic AI” the CEO of OCBC thinks the tech will create more jobs

As part of its earnings report, OCBC revealed that it will return 2.5 billion Singapore dollars to shareholders over two years through dividends and buybacks.

Fortune · Feb 26, 2025

DBS, Southeast Asia's largest bank, is cutting 4,000 temp roles due to AI: 'For the first time, I’m struggling to create jobs'

DBS is the first of Singapore’s Big Three banks to suggest how AI might affect its headcount.

Fortune · Feb 25, 2025

Employees at Singapore’s biggest bank are set to lose their jobs to the AI revolution — and that worries me

As many as 4,000 temporary and contract DBS workers are set to lose their jobs as their terms expire and are not renewed.

TechRadar · Feb 25, 2025

Big bank to cut 4,000 roles as AI replaces humans

Thousands of contractual and temporary employees to be affected over the next three years

The Independent UK · Feb 25, 2025

Singapore’s UOB is betting on Southeast Asia for growth after posting record profit

The bank’s CEO, Wee Ee Cheong, said an enlarged customer base and enhanced platforms in the region position UOB well.

Fortune · Feb 19, 2025

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Fortune · Feb 10, 2025

DBS is setting aside $23.6 million to reward staff for bank’s “record performance”

The bank, driven by its wealth management business and an increase in loans, reported a net profit of $8.4 billion for 2024, up 11% from the year before.

Fortune · Dec 26, 2024

Trump is set to hike tariffs. Should Southeast Asia be worried?

Countries like Vietnam benefited from Trump’s trade war. That could put them at risk in the second round.

Fortune · Dec 22, 2024

Singapore’s Straits Times Index is Southeast Asia’s best performing index for 2024—and it's all due to its Big Three banks

A share rally in Singapore's biggest banks—DBS, UOB and OCBC—lifted the Straits Times Index to end the year above Malayis'a Kuala Lumpur Composite Index.

Fortune · Dec 13, 2024

Inside the secret history of Design for Good, an alliance between companies with $4 trillion in market cap to devise solutions to the world’s biggest problems

Design for Good co-founder Ben Sheppard explains why big names like Microsoft, Nestle and DBS got involved.

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Autosport · Dec 10, 2024

How Second Hand Rose is now on song

When he’s not at the helm of his Aston Martin specialist garage in Essex, Rikki Cann is tearing up the tracks in one of Newport Pagnell’s finest. Cann’s heavily modified Series 2 V8 Vantage has become a regular sight on circuits over its 15-year racing life and currently competes in…

Fortune · Nov 27, 2024

Trump's victory could make life harder for Hong Kong—and that may be good news for Singapore's banks

Banks like Singapore's OCBC are poised to gain from Chinese investment into Southeast Asia—now potentially supercharged by a new Trump trade war.

Fortune · Aug 7, 2024

DBS's next CEO will be Tan Su Shan, the first woman to lead Southeast Asia’s largest bank

Tan Su Shan will become the first woman CEO in DBS' history when she assumes the top job come March 2025.

Fortune · Jul 29, 2024

Singapore's AI ambitions: How the city-state is keeping up in an arms race dominated by the U.S. and China

Collaboration between government and industry has made Singapore a competitive player in AI—and a "digital Switzerland" in the superpower rivalry.

Fortune · Jul 9, 2024

Trump's policies paint a 'negative picture,' yet his willingness to 'cut deals' may help with China, says the CEO of Southeast Asia's largest bank

DBS CEO Piyush Gupta called the former president a "dealmaker" that's "not ideologically driven to anything."

Multichannel News · Jun 17, 2024

DirecTV Turns 30: Colorful History, Questions About the Future

‘It’s obvious that a pure broadcast platform isn’t long for this world,’ analyst says

Fortune · May 23, 2024

Taylor Swift and Coldplay concerts may have saved Singapore’s economy from shrinking last quarter

Strong services spending, spurred from superstar concerts, offset a decline in manufacturing in the first quarter of 2024.

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