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Digital Economy
Accelerating Asia’s digital economy
Spearheading your growth at every stage
As part of DBS Bank’s Institutional Banking Group, we provide strategic support and best-in-class services to emerging companies in the digital economy to help your company maximise growth at every part of your life cycle.
By being part of this extensive DBS ecosystem, you are given the access to:
- Growth stage capital solutions (both equity and debt)
- Access to a wide array of institutional and high net-worth investors
- Access to structured debt solutions including EvolutionX Debt Capital (jointly sponsored by DBS and Temasek) and digitised platform-based financing for both SMEs and consumers
- Fully digitised banking services from the Best Digital Bank in the World
Leveraging the DBS Ecosystem to maximise your growth opportunities
We will work with you to develop a bespoke strategic approach that is unique to your business. Being active in this space, not only can we leverage our extensive DBS network to seek out investors best suited for you, we can also timely identify cross-border opportunities for you as our client.

Corporate and Strategic Investors
- Access to some of the largest and most reputable corporates and strategic investors across DBS' markets. You might find synergies with these investors, or forge partnerships with them

Institutional Investors
- Access to our network of top-tier investors from some of the largest global institutional investors, boutique funds and family offices who are all actively investing in the new economy within Asia

Selected DBS Private Banking Clients
- Get connected to esteemed clients of DBS Private Bank, who are plugged in to the digital economy space and keen to invest in such profile of companies
- S$80M worth of investments have been committed by these individuals since 2019 in areas of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Internet of Things
Solution for every growth journey

Series B to Pre-IPO Capital Raises
- Strategic advice
- Pre-IPO capital raises throughout growth journey

M&A Advisory
- Strategic advice
- Mergers & acquisitions
- Divestitures

Initial Public Offerings
- Strategic advice
- Equity capital markets
- Follow-on offerings

Structured Debt Solutions
- Structured debt solutions
- EvolutionX Debt Capital
- Consumer lending

Ecosystems-based Partnerships
- Digital onboarding
- Platform-based merchant and consumer financing solutions
- Algorithm-based lending
- Payment/banking as a service (open API)

Cash and Trade Digitalisation
- Trade finance
- Supply chain finance
- Cash management
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