Trusts Services

Skillfully Managing your Interests

DBS Bank and its subsidiary DBS Trustee Ltd. provide a wide range of trust services. Our track record, financial strength, experience and enthusiasm of our staff, position DBS as one of the strongest financial institutions in Asia today. You can depend on us to serve you in confidence and in trust.

Range of Custodian Services
We provide trusteeship for: Debt and Quasi-debt Instruments
  • Ensuring that the issuer observes the terms and conditions laid down in the Trust Deed
  • Obtain redress in the event of default
  • Discharge our duties effectively in the interest of holders and issuers
Staff Ownership Schemes
  • Provide professional advice for set-up and documentation of the chosen scheme
  • Provide related administrative support
  • Ensure observance of provisions governing the scheme

Unit Trust Schemes

  • Provide professional advice and assistance in the initial set-up and documentation of unit trust schemes
  • Ensure compliance with provisions in Trust Deeds constituting the funds

Real Property
  • Holds real property on your behalf
  • Guarantee corporate continuity which is absent in the case of an individual trustee
Agency Services We have the experience and professional back up to act as an agent for companies in the following activities:
  • Paying agent: for the timely receipt of interest and principal repayment from the issuer of the debt or quasi-debt instrument, and for prompt payment to the holders.
  • Authentication agent: to guard against printing errors and forgeries of securities.
  • Conversion and Warrant agent: to receive the exercise notice and exercise price from the exercise warrant holder to facilitate timely conversion of warrants to ordinary securities.
  • Reference agent: to fix the interest for a floating-rate instrument at regular intervals and to inform the respective parties.
  • Facility agent: to invite the chosen tender panel members to tender by submitting a competitive bid on a yield basis, and to provide settlement services.
Other Services Unit Trust Fund Administration and Registrar Services
  • Provide all required administrative back-up to support your unit trust fund operation
  • Fund valuation and accounting
  • Processing the creation and redemption of units
  • Determining and updating of unit prices
  • Issuing statements of unit holdings
  • Distribution of income
  • Computation and reporting of agents' commissions

For more information on our Trusts and Fiduciary Services, please fax to us at
+65 6878 3977.