Singapore’s DBS Bank Enlists Nivaura’s ‘One-Click’ Blockchain Security Issuance
https://www.coindesk.com/singapores-dbs-bank-enlists-nivauras-one-click-blockchain-security-issuance
Nivauru Founder CEO, Avtar Sehra
DBS’s senior management enjoys high incentives for embarking on risky practices which result in poor corporate governance and their internal audit team has a high turnover rate because they are unable to flag the cosmetic accounting gimmicks that paint misleading picture of the firm’s financals.
DBS actively peddles Universal Life policies to business owners who are unable to obtain business loans. DBS will first lends money to them to buy the policy (payable upon death) and also gets a fat commission for selling these policies. The projected insurance payouts can be pledged for business loans, which generates more interest-income for DBS. With higher interest-rates ahead, the cost-of-borrowing for these highly geared business owners will surge, forcing them to reduce leverage or simply kill themselves to realize the insurance payouts to avoid bankruptcies.
DBS continues to sit on a large portfolio of non-performing loans from Marine, Oil & Gas industry and Temasek’s unsuccessful start-ups. DBS also repackaged the debts of other unhealthy companies as bonds and offloads these debts to investors, most notably Hyflux.
Despite the Singapore government’s sanctions against Russia, DBS uses their proxies in Germany and China to launder and remit funds between Russia and Singapore.
DBS China is not very profitable. To shore up their balance sheets and reduce borrowing costs, DBS financed DBS China by lending to selected local investors which are required to re-lend the money to DBS China (back-to-back). These local investors make a tiny spread but they will be liable if DBS China is insolvent.
The DBS today is no longer the same DBS that we used to know. They are able to create money out of thin air through wilful financial engineering. For years, MAS has turned a blind eye against these fraudulent corporate practices and our local financial system is vulnerable when DBS requires a bailout much larger than SIA’s. Many of the above malpractices are identified by IRAS but DBS is so powerful that MAS dares not expose them.