DBS has appointed Koh Kar Siong as head of group audit, effective 1 April 2025, and Chen Ze Ling, currently Singapore head of corporate banking, will succeed him as group head of corporate and SME banking.

Chen will report to Han Kwee Juan, group head of institutional banking (IBG). Chen has over 20 years of experience in banking across geographies. He has been with DBS since 2008 where he has held several senior roles within IBG. Prior to his current role, he was most recently country head of DBS Australia, a role he assumed in 2019. He was also a key member of the founding team which established DBS’ Australia branch in 2015, which has grown to become a key international centre of the group. Before that, he held relationship coverage responsibilities for large institutional clients in the energy, power and utility sectors in Singapore and other markets in Southeast Asia.

Welson Jamin, presently head of IBG operations and international centres technology and operations, will be appointed group head of operations effective 1 April 2025. He will report to Derrick Goh, who will assume the role of group chief operating officer effective the same day.

Jamin has 25 years of technology and operations experience with DBS. In his current role, he has been instrumental in driving organisational transformation across 14 locations covering more than 2,000 operations professionals. In recent years, he has led the transformation through the extensive use of workflows, the introduction of process improvements and the pioneering of GenAI in operations. Before that, he was involved in setting up new operational capabilities such as BusinessCare and also led several technology infrastructure projects including the establishment of infrastructure for new branches, network and telephony migration, data centre management and core banking projects.

Re-disseminated by The Asian Banker