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DBS Bank Headquarters & offices · Singapore, Singapore
DBS Bank · Singapore
More than 4,800 DBS employees moved over 18 weekends into DBS Asia Central, a 60,000 m² fit-out at Marina Bay Financial Centre Tower 3 mapped with the landscapes of Asia.
Inside DBS's Singapore headquarters: social hubs at the heart of every floor, activity-based JoySpaces since 2016, and a hybrid policy that lets every employee work from home up to 40% of the time. Every fact from DBS's newsroom, heritage site, careers pages and annual report.
- 4,800+staff moved in over 18 weekends (2012)
- 60,000 m²DBS Asia Central fit-out, MBFC Tower 3
- Up to 40%of the time working from home
- ≈ 41,000employees (2024)
Sources: DBS Newsroom (2012, 2020) · Woodhead project description (Australian Institute of Architects) · dbs.com careers · DBS Annual Report 2024
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THE HEADQUARTERS · MARINA BAY, SINGAPORE
DBS Asia Central: Asia's landscapes, mapped onto the floors
Interior architects Woodhead designed DBS Asia Central, where 4,800 staff consolidated into 60,000 m² of Marina Bay Financial Centre Tower 3. Topographical drawings of the places where DBS operates are mapped onto floors, walls and ceilings, and built elements such as The Hub, workspaces and focus rooms sit on that contoured landscape. Each floor has a social hub inspired by an Asian marketplace, serving DBS Brew; The Exchange is a staff café and lounge with a flexible area for yoga and dance classes. The building also houses a flagship branch, a dealing room and the in-house DBS Sparks Studio.
- ≈ 60,000 m² (≈ 646,000 sq ft)
- 4,800+ staff
- Interiors: Woodhead
- Social hub on every floor
- The Exchange staff café
- JoySpaces since 2016
DBS Asia Central, Marina Bay Financial Centre Tower 3
On 17 October 2012 DBS inaugurated DBS Asia Central at Marina Bay Financial Centre Tower 3, moving more than 4,800 employees over 18 weekends.
DBS JoySpace offices
Since 2016 DBS has co-created activity-based JoySpaces with its staff in place of fixed desks; Gensler later helped roll the programme out across three Singapore locations.
The tower at Marina Bay
Marina Bay Financial Centre was designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox, with about 1.3 million sq ft of office space in Tower 3 and Green Mark Gold certification.
Sources: Woodhead, “DBS Asia Central” (Australian Institute of Architects) · DBS Newsroom, 17 Oct 2012 · DBS Heritage, “DBS celebrates 10 years at the heart of Marina Bay” (2022)
Marina Bay Financial Centre Tower 3
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| DBS Asia Central (HQ) | 12 Marina Boulevard, Marina Bay Financial Centre Tower 3, Singapore 018982 |
| Former HQ: DBS Building Tower One | 6 Shenton Way, Singapore 068809 |
Source: dbs.com, Our global offices · DBS Annual Report 2010, Main Subsidiaries · See them on the map ↓
Source: KPF, “Marina Bay Financial Centre” · MBFC, Tower 3 · Woodhead, “DBS Asia Central” · DBS Newsroom, 17 Oct 2012
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Benefits (Singapore)
Every employee can work from home up to 40% of the time.
For a newborn or newly adopted child, or a family member recovering from critical illness.
Both keep full medical benefits and insurance cover.
Introduced in 2015, among the first in Singapore.
In your birthday month; work ends at 5pm on Fridays (2015).
A yearly sum to spend on health, wellness and lifestyle.
Comprehensive medical insurance for you and your family, plus health screenings.
Exclusive banking privileges and financial-wellness resources.
Source: dbs.com careers, Benefits and Diversity (2026) · DBS Newsroom, 17 Nov 2020 and 26 Aug 2015
How DBS keeps people, in its own words
DBS co-creates and redesigns its workspaces with staff; activity-based “JoySpaces” started in 2016.
A personalised tool that suggests learning, skills and roles employees can move into.
Moves across roles, functions and geographies are actively supported; “Be My Guest” lets staff shadow other teams.
Women lead some of DBS's largest businesses and functions.
Peer mentoring circles launched with Lean In in 2021.
Given by employees through the People of Purpose movement.
Source: dbs.com careers (Diversity, Learning) · DBS Heritage, “10 years at the heart of Marina Bay” · DBS Annual Report 2025, Letter from the Chairman & CEO
Who works here
employees (2024), up from ≈ 14,000 in 2009
at DBS Asia Central, over half of DBS's Singapore staff (2012)
of senior management are women
markets
founded as the Development Bank of Singapore
Source: DBS Annual Report 2024, “15 Years of Leading with Excellence” · DBS Newsroom, 17 Oct 2012 and 8 Feb 2026 · dbs.com careers, Diversity · DBS Heritage
Office history: from a rented counter on Shenton Way to Marina Bay
- 1968 Founded in rented premises on Shenton Way
A small group of Economic Development Board staff set up the Development Bank of Singapore with SGD 100 million. Its commercial banking began as a little counter at the entrance of rented premises on Shenton Way, with two cashiers.
Source: DBS Heritage, “Our Journey” · dbs.com, “A bank is born” (S Dhanabalan)
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1974 The DBS Building tops off
The topping-off ceremony of the DBS Building was held on 9 September 1974. DBS's logo, first used in 1972, was modelled on the caissons of the building's foundation.
Source: dbs.com, “A bank is born” · DBS Heritage, “Our Journey”
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1975 DBS Tower One, Singapore's tallest
At 50 storeys, DBS Tower One at 6 Shenton Way was the tallest building in Singapore when completed. It remained the bank's head office address until the 2012 move.
Source: DBS Heritage, “Our Journey” · DBS Annual Report 2010
The DBS Towers on Shenton Way, Singapore · Unknown author / CC BY 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons - 2012 DBS Asia Central, Marina Bay Financial Centre Tower 3
On 17 October 2012 DBS inaugurated its new headquarters. More than 4,800 employees moved over 18 weekends; DBS called it the largest corporate fit-out in Singapore.
Source: DBS Newsroom, 17 Oct 2012
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2016 JoySpace
DBS began co-creating activity-based “JoySpaces” with its staff, replacing fixed desks; Gensler later helped roll the programme out across three Singapore locations.
Source: DBS Heritage (2022) · Gensler, “DBS JoySpace”
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2020 A permanent hybrid model
DBS let all employees work remotely up to 40% of the time, introduced job sharing, and planned a 5,000 sq ft “Living Lab” blending physical and virtual workspaces.
Source: DBS Newsroom, 17 Nov 2020
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it.
Map: how the headquarters moved
DBS has stayed in Singapore's financial district all its life: from rented premises and then its own 50-storey tower on Shenton Way to Marina Bay, on land that used to be open sea.
- 1 · 1975DBS Building Tower One, 6 Shenton Way — 50-storey head office, Singapore's tallest when completed.
- 2 · 2012DBS Asia Central, MBFC Tower 3, 12 Marina Boulevard — Today's headquarters, inaugurated 17 October 2012.
Addresses: DBS Annual Report 2010 · dbs.com, Our global offices · Locations: OpenStreetMap
What DBS Bank does
DBS is a financial services group headquartered and listed in Singapore, with a presence in 19 markets across Greater China, Southeast Asia and South Asia. It provides consumer banking, wealth management and institutional banking.
Consumer Banking/Wealth Management · Institutional Banking · Treasury Markets.
Source: DBS Newsroom, 8 Feb 2026 (full-year 2025 results) · DBS Annual Report 2025
Growth: revenue vs. people
SGD 6.6B → SGD 22.9B
14,000 → 41,000
Calendar years, SGD billions. Total income: DBS Annual Report 2024 (2009, 2024) and full-year results releases 2019, 2021 (sum of net interest, fee and other non-interest income), 2022 and 2025. Employees: DBS Annual Report 2024 (rounded). Multiples calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
Previously Deputy CEO and Group Head of Institutional Banking, and Group Head of Consumer Banking and Wealth Management.
Led the bank's digital transformation; officiated the 2012 inauguration of DBS Asia Central.
Grew the regional footprint; died in office in April 2009.
Turned DBS from a Singapore-centric bank into a regional one.
Set up in 1968 by a small group of Economic Development Board staff; Hon Sui Sen was the first Chairman and President.
Source: DBS Heritage, “Chief Executive Officers” · DBS Newsroom, “Tan Su Shan appointed as Deputy CEO” · dbs.com, “DBS' first Chairman Hon Sui Sen”
DBS Bank: questions people ask
Where is DBS Bank's headquarters?
DBS Asia Central, 12 Marina Boulevard, Marina Bay Financial Centre Tower 3, Singapore 018982.
Source: dbs.com, Our global offices
When did DBS move to Marina Bay Financial Centre?
The new headquarters was inaugurated on 17 October 2012. More than 4,800 employees moved over 18 weekends from the DBS Building on Shenton Way.
Source: DBS Newsroom, 17 Oct 2012 · DBS Heritage
Who designed the DBS headquarters?
Marina Bay Financial Centre was designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox. The DBS Asia Central interiors were designed by Woodhead; Gensler worked with DBS on its JoySpace programme.
Source: KPF · Woodhead (Australian Institute of Architects) · Gensler
How big is DBS Asia Central?
About 60,000 m² (≈ 646,000 sq ft) for 4,800 staff. Tower 3 as a whole has about 1.3 million sq ft of office space with typical floors of about 30,000 sq ft; DBS is its anchor tenant.
Source: Woodhead · MBFC, Tower 3
Where was DBS's old headquarters?
DBS Building Tower One, 6 Shenton Way. Completed in 1975 at 50 storeys, it was then the tallest building in Singapore.
Source: DBS Heritage, “Our Journey” · DBS Annual Report 2010
Does DBS allow working from home?
Yes. All employees can work from home up to 40% of the time, and up to 100% for six months after a birth or adoption or while caring for a family member recovering from critical illness or injury.
Source: dbs.com careers, Diversity · DBS Newsroom, 17 Nov 2020
What benefits does DBS offer?
Medical insurance for employees and their families, a flexible benefits stipend, extensive leave for major life events, health screenings, staff banking privileges, job sharing and flexible work arrangements.
Source: dbs.com careers, Benefits
What is a DBS JoySpace?
An activity-based workspace that DBS co-creates with its employees, introduced in 2016 to replace fixed desks with open workspaces, meeting pods and social hubs.
Source: DBS Heritage · Gensler
How many people work at DBS?
About 41,000 in 2024, nearly three times the 14,000 of 2009.
Source: DBS Annual Report 2024
Who is the CEO of DBS?
Tan Su Shan, CEO since March 2025. She succeeded Piyush Gupta, CEO from 2009.
Source: DBS Heritage, “Chief Executive Officers”
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