A bank that wants to be Amazon; FDIC says bank profits declined

Banks are increasingly taking cues from companies outside the financial industry. 星展银行 's Singapore country head Tse Koon Shee describes the bank's push to create a massive marketplace that offers everything from hotel reservations to healthcare: 'We want to be digital to the core': how DBS tries to imitate Amazon.

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