DBS’s Gupta turns to India for profit and growth

The Singapore lender is looking to India in search of new business and growth opportunities, its chief executive Piyush Gupta tells Euromoney. Long term, it aims to emulate onshore the country’s best private-sector lenders, HDFC and Kotak Mahindra.

For the past two decades, China’s rise seemed unstoppable. Its vast productive capacity cast such a shadow over Asia that many global chief executives came to see the region as two distinct entities: China, and everything else.

Covid changed that. Not overnight. But more than a year on from its belated decision to open its borders and let the world back in, China is in a surprisingly uncertain place. While far from enfeebled, its economy is certainly sclerotic.

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