DBS Group Emerges as Southeast Asia's Most Valuable Company

  • DBS shares advances to a record; Singtel shares decline
  • Southeast Asia’s largest bank leverages ‘tech transformation’

DBS Group headquarters in Singapore.

Photographer: Ore Huiying/Bloomberg
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Reaping the rewards of going big on tech, DBS Group Holdings Ltd. has pushed past Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. to become Southeast Asia’s biggest company by market capitalization.

Adopting a “digital to the coreBloomberg Terminal” strategy, Singapore’s largest bank has signaled that it will focus on customers who have generated a consistently higher return on equityBloomberg Terminal.