Guest bio
- Led DBS Group as chief executive from 2009, as Southeast Asia's largest bank was named the world's best digital bank by Euromoney.
- Spent 27 years at Citigroup before DBS, ending as CEO for Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
- Named by Harvard Business Review among the world's 100 best-performing CEOs, and awarded Singapore's Public Service Star in 2020.
Piyush Gupta led DBS Group as chief executive officer and a director from 2009, during the years in which Southeast Asia's largest bank became known as the world's best digital bank, named so by Euromoney, with assets of around USD 553 billion and more than 12 million customers in 19 markets. Before DBS he spent 27 years at Citigroup, ending as CEO for Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand. He chairs the board of trustees of Singapore Management University and the board of Mandai Park Holdings, and is vice chairman of the Institute of International Finance. An economics graduate of St Stephen's College with a postgraduate diploma from IIM Ahmedabad, he received Singapore's Public Service Star in 2020 and India's Pravasi Bharatiya Samman in 2023, and Harvard Business Review named him among the world's 100 best-performing CEOs.
Show notes
In this episode, Piyush Gupta, the inspirational CEO of DBS Bank, tells us how a Singaporean bank raced ahead in innovation and digitisation to be crowned the world’s best digital bank.
Is Technology the new “front office” of a bank? Will pure-play digital banks ever succeed against digitized incumbent banks with scale? How should a traditional bank build a fail-safe culture of innovation? And why should youngsters learn to connect the dots to succeed?
In an uplifting conversation with Suvo Sarkar, veteran banker Piyush Gupta talks about revenue generation from AI use cases, the merits of a gender-equal workplace and the joys of bird-watching.
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