Tailored Solutions for the Metals & Mining Industry

Metals & Mining

Supporting the growth of industry players across the sector’s global value chain

Metals & Mining

Supporting the growth of industry players across the sector’s global value chain

At a glance

DBS offers a comprehensive range of specialised products and services to meet the needs of companies across the entire metals and mining value chain and ecosystem.

The only Asian bank with a pure play global industry team, the coverage includes upstream mining, as well as mid-stream manufacturing, smelting/refining, and trading.

Our capabilities include: Project Finance, Structured Finance, FX & Rates, Capital Markets, Mergers & Acquisition Advisory.

Present in 51 cities and across 18 markets: DBS is uniquely positioned to help clients capture key opportunities across the metals and mining value chain and provide bespoke solutions across various markets.

DBS is also among the top banks with capacity to provide commodity hedging solution and clearing services, and clearing iron ores contracts with annual volume of approximately 100 - 200 million tonnes.

Our solutions

Financing

We offer a range of solutions to support your loan syndication and working capital needs

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Advisory

Leverage our expertise in strategic advisory, deal making, project finance and acquisition financing

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Global Financial Markets

Access innovative hedging solutions to mitigate foreign exchange and interest rate risks

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Transaction Services

Cash management, trade finance, supply chain finance and custody services all in one place

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Capital Markets

We are a leader in offering global debt and equity financing through our full-service solutions

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Client stories

Financing new energy battery metals

DBS successfully financed two smelters producing mixed hydroxide precipitate in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. These projects demonstrated our support for the nascent global supply chain in battery metals, as well as our commitment to sustainability.

Deals

Project financing structure

2021 – DBS has launched a USD 625 million project financing structure for Indonesia’s first High Pressure Acid Leach (HPAL) smelter, PT Halmahera Persada Lygend (PT HPAL).

Structured Finance

2020 – DBS has led and arranged a number of structured financing deals including pre-payment and pre-shipment finance for global traders and large-scale smelters/refineries including India and Mainland China.

Financial Advisor and Lead Financing Bank

2019 – Financial Advisor and Lead Financing Bank of a US$960 million limited recourse project financing based in Indonesia for Phase 1 and 2 of Alumina Refinery.

Hedging coordinator

2019 – Hedging coordinator for a Group of Lenders for an Indonesia based transaction for up to 7 years in Cross-Currency Swap (CCS) for notional amount of US$380 million.

Research and Insights

Forging a Sustainable Path Forward

Steel overcapacity, emissions woes spur urgent transition need to sustainable production future.

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Asia’s move to low-carbon steel picks up pace

Read more on the emerging decarbonization strategies and challenges and the future of steel

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Supporting Metals & Mining Push to Net Zero

The emerging ecosystem for EV batteries in Asia will be more and more important.

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Blockchain bolsters steel industry's growth

Strong Asian performance is set to drive the growth of the steel industry.

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