Singapore bank DBS fourth-quarter net profit falls 10% year over year
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📌 Key Takeaways
- DBS reported a 10% drop in Q4 net profit to SGD 2.27 billion due to one-off integration and social contribution costs.
- The bank successfully integrated Citigroup’s Taiwan consumer banking business, incurring significant transition expenses.
- Despite the quarterly decline, DBS reached a record full-year net profit for 2023, driven by high interest rates.
- Management announced a dividend hike and a 1-for-10 bonus share issue to reward shareholders for the year's performance.
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Singapore
Island country in Southeast Asia
# Singapore **Singapore**, officially the **Republic of Singapore**, is a sovereign island country and city-state located in Southeast Asia. It serves as a global financial, shipping, and architectural hub, positioned approximately one degree of latitude (137 kilometres or 85 miles) north of the eq...
Net income
Measure of the profitability of a business venture
In business and accounting, net income (also total comprehensive income, net earnings, net profit, bottom line, sales profit, or credit sales) is an entity's income minus cost of goods sold, expenses, depreciation and amortization, interest, and taxes, and other expenses for an accounting period. It...
DBS Bank
Singaporean multinational banking and financial services company
DBS Bank Limited is a Singaporean multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered at the Marina Bay Financial Centre in the Marina Bay district of Singapore. The bank was previously known as The Development Bank of Singapore Limited, which "DBS" was derived from, before the pr...
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try{ var _=i o; . if(!_||_&&typeof _==="object"&&_.expiry As Claude disrupts stock market, Anthropic researcher warns ’world is in peril’ Gold, silver prices rise amid U.S.-Iran tensions, blowout January payrolls data Dow halts three-day win streak as blowout jobs data curbs rate cut bets Citi pushes back Fed rate cuts to May after blowout January jobs report (South Africa Philippines Nigeria) Singapore’s bank DBS Q4 net profit misses forecasts; sees rate headwinds persisting Economy Published 02/08/2026, 05:39 PM Updated 02/09/2026, 12:42 AM Singapore’s bank DBS Q4 net profit misses forecasts; sees rate headwinds persisting 0 DBSM 0.75% By Rae Wee and Yantoultra Ngui SINGAPORE, Feb 9 - Singapore’s biggest bank DBS Group on Monday maintained its expectation that net profit this year will dip slightly from 2025, after posting a 10% drop in fourth-quarter earnings that was weighed down by a lower net interest margin. DBS , which is also Southeast Asia’s largest bank by assets, said October-December net profit dropped to S$2.26 billion ($1.78 billion) from S$2.52 billion a year earlier. That missed the mean estimate of nearly S$2.55 billion from two analysts, according to LSEG data. "The key driver for the underperformance in 4Q25 was weaker-than-expected markets trading income," CGS International analysts Tay Wee Kuang and Lim Siew Khee wrote in a note on Monday. Shares of DBS last traded 1.1% lower at S$58.63, having fallen nearly 2% earlier in the session. The domestic benchmark index was up 0.6%. For the period, overall group net interest margin, a key profitability gauge, stood at 1.93% as compared to 2.15% the previous year, with net interest income impacted by lower domestic rates. Return on equity declined to 13.5% from 15.8% a year ago. The lender’s wealth segment’s assets under management meanwhile grew 19% in constant-currency terms to a new high of S$488 billion in the fourth quarter. At the bank’s results briefing on Monday, CEO Tan Su Shan said that despi...