DBS considering expansion in Dubai, CEO Piyush Gupta says

SINGAPORE – DBS Group Holdings is considering an expansion in Dubai, making South-east Asia’s biggest lender the latest financial company to explore scaling up in the Middle Eastern business hub.

“We’re revisiting the thesis that there is real opportunity to do more stuff out of Dubai and this region,” chief executive Piyush Gupta said on Tuesday in an interview with news anchor Yousef Gamal El-Din at the Dubai FinTech Summit.

The Singapore-based lender’s presence in the region…