Two senior executives from DBS Bank and United Overseas Bank (UOB) shared their views on the role of foreign banks plays in China and the innovation they’ve seen in the market at a panel organised by SRP on 2 December.
Daphne Tan ( pictured ), head of treasury at DBS China, never expected that one day she would land herself in Shanghai speaking basic Mandarin and working for the largest Singaporean bank where she had been a retail customer back in her home country. And four years have just passed. “Our presence here is decent enough that we have close to 24 branches,” she said, adding that the bank is working towards the banking concept that ‘cash is not the main thing but invest