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Be inspired by unique insights and best practices to manage your working capital
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- Insights and Case Studies
Insights and Case Studies
Be inspired by unique insights and best practices to manage your working capital
Get ready for the next frontier of banking
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New thinking in transaction banking
Innovation is key to stay ahead of the disruption that is coming to this traditional form of banking.
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Digital solutions boost efficiency and security
DBS Bank provides an overview of its initiatives and value propositions in the digital trade space.
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Optimising supply chain finance in a tough market
Banks are stepping up to provide new supply chain finance solutions that meet the needs of SMEs and corporates in a challenging environment.
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Managing diversity in Asia
Ee Fong Soh, Managing Director and Head of Securities and Fiduciary Services of DBS Singapore comments about securities services in APAC.
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DBS sharpens Asia focus
The bank is digitising traditionally manual processes and providing more solutions.
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Strategic treasury: 3 areas of differentiation
As corporate treasuries play an expanded, strategic role in decision-making, the notion of a "typical" treasury team will be challenged.
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Cash management in Asia—a 20/20 vision
Senior bankers share their visions of the future and give guidance to corporates operating in APAC. A must-read for some practical advice.
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A cost-savings frontier too far
Stanley Tan, Head of Working Capital Advisory, explains why in-house Financial Planning & Analysis outweighs the cost savings of outsourcing.
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Digitisation as the next frontier in banking
The future will be digital, and digitisation will better serve customers, shares John Laurens, Head of Global Transaction Services at DBS.
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Changing the game in Asian transaction banking
The emergence of Asian countries and rapidly changing financial infrastructures pose complexities for treasurers and finance managers.
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Building blocks of future-ready liquidity solutions
With rapid changing regulations, treasurers must regularly check and optimise their optimum liquidity strategy.
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Looking within to fund working capital
A study estimates more S$1 trillion in trapped cash within Asia. How can businesses free up this cash in their working capital cycle?
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Treasury leading the charge to unlock cash
Asia is set for unprecedented growth in the next decade. Part 1 shows the changing dynamics of business and the difference a bank can make.
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Managing cash by managing the supply chain
Stanley Tan, Head of the Working Capital Advisory Team, DBS Bank Global Transaction Services, shares his view in a 2-part series.
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Getting capital to work
Vivek Batra shares on the rise in the importance of working capital to supply chains and what companies can expect from bank partnerships.
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Learn how our solutions helped to free up cash flow
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How Lenovo set up a supplier programme
Lenovo introduced a cross-border supplier finance programme to improve its cash conversion cycle while mitigating drawbacks from suppliers.
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How Man Fai Tai released trapped liquidity
“Time is money in our business.” DBS helped Man Fai Tai Group free up trapped cash, improve DSO and fund their expansion.
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Best Working Capital Solution—DBS for Huhtamaki
How we boosted efficiency for the Hong Kong arm of Huhtamaki and even freed up cash for their global operations.
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TCC Group selects DBS’s account pooling structure
TCC Group needed a new solution for efficient cross-border cash management across operations in Asia. DBS stepped in to help.
Get a better picture of trade financing
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Digital journey in trade finance
Emerging technologies are disrupting and reinventing the rules of engagement in Trade Finance.
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Optimising working capital: Infographic case study
How can you boost efficiency and free up trapped cash for your business in Asia? We lay it out in this infographic.
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How can F&B businesses unlock working capital?
Cash flow is an essential ingredient for F&B. We share a recipe for success and insights from DBS BusinessClass & Working Capital Advisory.
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