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News Releases 2005
January February March April May June July August September October November
November
- DBS to sell Shenton Way offices for $690 million (30 Nov)
- DBS officially opens newly renovated DBS Treasures Centre and Branch in Raffles Place (28 Nov)
- DBS - First bank to partner Singapore 2006 (18 Nov)
- DBS celebrates 10 years in Shanghai with official opening of relocated branch (14 Nov)
October
- DBS third-quarter GAAP earnings rise 28% to $446 million; earnings largely unchanged from second quarter (28 Oct)
- Dhanabalan to retire as DBS chairman (5 Oct)
September
August
- ABF Singapore Bond Index Fund begins trading on SGX-ST (31 August)
- Thailand's first REIT offered to international investors attracts subscriptions and indications of interest 4.7 times offer size (11 August)
- DBS launches Treasures Priority Banking Service in Indonesia (3 August)
July
- DBS Second-Quarter earnings up 28% excluding last year's one-time gains (29 July)
- DBS partners HDFC Bank for online remittances (11 July)
June
- DBS to partner Chennai's Cholamandalam in financial services (16 June)
- DBS appoints Koh Boon Hwee to its Boards of Directors (15 June)
May
- DBS partners BII in strategic alliance for cash management (31 May)
- DBS launches consumer banking in China (25 May)
April
- First-Quarter earnings excluding goodwill fall 30% to $412 million; Decline is 15% using GAAP numbers (29 April)
- SPRING Singapore, IE Singapore and DBS Bank Limited launch new $300 million loan scheme for SMEs (8 April)
- Four DBS directors to retire at April AGM (4 April)
- DBS gets branch licence in New Delhi (3 April)
March
- DBSAM wins $1.3 billion investment mandate from Aviva Limited (23 March)
- DBS appoints Ang Kong Hua to its boards (21 March)
February
- DBS Bank & Standard Chartered Bank launch Inaugural Singapore Dollar Bond for Cathay Pacific Airways (22 February)
- DBS Full-Year 2004 earnings almost double to cross $2 billion mark (18 February)
- DBS names Frank Wong as Chief Operating Officer (18 February)
January
- DBSAM appoints Lau Wing Tat as CO-CIO (31 January)
- DBS and POSB customers donate over $5.5 million to Red Cross Tsumani Fund (25 January)
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