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How DBS won Best Bank in the World title

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17 October 2018

DBS bank of Singapore has been named the Best Bank in the World in the Global Finance Bank of Year awards 2018. It’s a first for an Asian bank.

DBS - South East Asia’s biggest bank - has been on a journey of transformation since 2009 under CEO Piyush Gupta.

He said: “I spent seven years working to turn my company into a world-class multinational. Now I try to convert it into a startup! It can be done. But you have to make a lot of effort in experimentation. Incubation, ideation, hand-holding – trying a bunch of different things.”

So how did they bring it off? Chief Transformation Officer Paul Cobban told us how they managed it and what they have learned.

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