MAS ups DBS’ additional capital requirement to S$1.6 billion after successive disruptions

At the annual general meeting of DBS on March 31, chief executive Piyush Gupta expressed regret for the service disruption days earlier, and chairman & nbsp Peter Seah declared that a special board committee had been established to look into the matter with outside experts brought in to assist.

The MAS announced on Friday that it had ordered DBS to carry out a thorough review of its modern banking services, including evaluating the effectiveness of management oversight, staff competencies, functional processes, system resilience, and architecture design.

MAS has just mandated that the survey also covers the May event, even though the causes of the March and May incidents seem to be separate from one another.

The governor added that it has also mandated that DBS take prompt action to enhance monitoring, more thorough testing, and other system redundancies in order to increase the resilience and recoverability of its current system. & nbsp,

The company’s CEO, Gupta, issued an apology for the recent electronic disruptions in response to MAS on Friday. We are dedicated to exceeding the expectations of our clients, who have every right to expect more from us.

He continued by saying that DBS would” apply all recommendations quickly” and that the special board committee’s review would be finished” as a matter of utmost concern.”

The bank’s Mar 31 Common Equity Tier 1 capital ratio would be affected by MAS ‘ most recent action by an additional 0.3 % point, dropping it from 14.4 % to 14.1 percent, according to DBS.

The amount contrasts a company’s assets with its capital. & nbsp,

A higher net interest margin, continued business momentum, and resilient plus good contributed to DBS’s stronger-than-anticipated 43 % increase in first-quarter return earlier this month, setting a new high from the same period last year.