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Citigroup’s Piyush Gupta named CEO of DBS Group
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Singapore: DBS Group Holdings Ltd, the biggest South-East Asian bank, hired Citigroup Inc.’s Piyush Gupta as chief executive officer (CEO), ending a five-month search for a new leader after Richard Stanley died.
Gupta, 49, will join DBS in November, and his appointment is subject to regulatory approval, the lender said in a statement to the Singapore stock exchange. Gupta is Citigroup’s CEO for South-East Asia-Pacific, the company said.
The focus at DBS has gone back to commercial banking, and the fact that Gupta is a commercial banker shows there will probably be no change in the bank’s strategic direction, said Tay Chin Seng, an analyst at Macquarie Capital Securities who rates the stock neutral.
Piyush is strategic, yet detail-oriented; and has the ability to nurture high-performing teams, DBS chairman Koh Boon Hwee said in the release.
Koh, 59, has run DBS since Stanley’s diagnosis in January. The same week that Stanley died, Koh told a shareholder meeting that the executive was on track to return to work, the ‘Straits Times’ reported on 9 April. In an 11 April statement announcing Stanley’s death, DBS said his condition deteriorated rapidly in the last 48 hours.
DBS has turned to Citigroup for more than managers. The US bank helped arrange DBS’ 4 billion Singapore dollars (around Rs19,480 crore) rights offering in December
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