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Jackson Tai, DBS: The house that Jack built

Euromoney, December 2007

This month Jackson Tai will step down as chief executive officer of Singapore’s DBS Bank. With his departure to the USA, the continent loses a strident standard-bearer of the idea that a powerful pan-Asian institution can be built without the irksome distractions of a London or New York head office, or indeed more than a handful of westerners on the board or in management.

 Tai is well-known for his vision that DBS should be a pan-Asian bank, headquartered in Asia, run by Asians and for Asians. And he spent years working on it, starting as CFO when he joined from JPMorgan in 1999, and then, from 2002, as CEO. But did he manage it? Continue…

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