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DBS Hong Kong made an HKD 10 million donation to relief efforts for the Tai Po Fire, the first bank in the city to do so, and provided around 2,900 kg in food supplies to affected residents. We also leveraged digibank to launch a One Bank campaign enabling customers to contribute to emergency food aid, with over 350 customers donating close to HKD 450,000. In Indonesia, we donated over IDR 6 billion to support over 10,400 vulnerable individuals and 1,700 households affected by floods and landslides in Aceh and West Sumatra. We worked with DBS Foundation’s local partner Plan Indonesia to channel the aid to those in need and to support post-disaster recovery.

We remained committed to supporting Asia’s transition notwithstanding the increasingly complex sustainability landscape. Our sustainable financing commitments rose 14% to over SGD 102 billion. We acted as global coordinator and sustainability structuring agent for a SGD 2.25 billion green loan to Airtrunk, the largest in Singapore for a data centre. We also served as joint sustainability structuring advisor to YTL PowerSeraya in Singapore’s first ever transition loan aligned with the Singapore-Asia Taxonomy.

By super-charging impactful businesses tackling urgent needs in ageing across Asia, DBS Foundation catalysed innovation towards enabling people to age with dignity, purpose and joy. We awarded SGD 3 million to four winners of our inaugural Impact Beyond Award to scale their solutions. To shift mindsets around ageing and unlock new opportunities for collaboration, we expanded our Impact Beyond Dialogues regionally with eight events, convening over 1,500 cross-sector leaders including policy makers, business leaders, community partners and academics. This included an inaugural bilateral China-Singapore dialogue to share cross-market insights.

In 2025, DBS Foundation’s programmes and partnerships to uplift the lives and livelihoods of vulnerable communities benefitted more than one million individuals across our six key markets in Asia. We deepened our impact by co-creating 13 new multi-year programmes with strategic partners and catalysing 26 innovative Businesses for Impact. Through our People of Purpose volunteer movement, DBS employees collectively contributed more than 300,000 hours to support communities across Asia.

DBS and POSB launched a year-long calendar of activities to commemorate SG60, including SGD 23 million worth of savings and support to its customers and beneficiaries. Initiatives included grocery and meal deals, weekly cashback rewards in heartland areas, measures to reduce mortgage payments, waivers and cashback benefits for heartland merchants, and a DBS Foundation programme for vulnerable seniors’ nutritional and mental well-being. Among cashback recipients, 32% were senior citizens and/ or earned less than SGD 2,500 monthly.

Beyond equipping all employees with new skills to use AI confidently and responsibly, we identified over 11,000 employees for deeper upskilling or reskilling in roles significantly transformed by AI. We also launched iCoach, a Gen AI-powered platform developed in collaboration with Marshall Goldsmith, one of the world’s top executive coaches, enabling employees at all levels to receive expert coaching advice on career development.