Global Finance Names The Safest In Asia 2019 NEW YORK, September 17, 2019 — Global Finance has named the Safest Banks in Asia in an exclusive survey to be published in the November 2019 issue as part of the publication’s 28th annual ranking of the World’s Safest Banks. This year’s top ten is unchanged compared to 2018. The full report includes the following rankings: World’s 50 Safest Banks, World’s 50 Safest Commercial Banks, Safest Banks by Country, 50 Safest Banks in Emerging Markets, About Global Finance Safest Islamic Financial Institutions in the GCC, and Safest Banks by Region (Africa, Asia, Global Finance, founded in Australasia, Central & Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, North America and 1987, has a circulation of Western Europe). 50,000 and readers in 188 countries. Global Finance’s “Asia’s export stability is currently being tested by tectonic shifts in trade policy. The banks audience includes senior that earn Safest ratings help their clients maintain stability in the face of rapid change and corporate and financial growing uncertainty. These even-keeled institutions are well-equipped to steer through any officers responsible for making turmoil,” says Global Finance publisher and editorial director Joseph D. Giarraputo. investment and strategic decisions at multinational Banks were selected through an evaluation of long-term foreign currency ratings—from Moody’s, companies and financial Standard & Poor’s and Fitch—of the 500 largest banks worldwide. institutions. Its website — GFMag.com — offers analysis Safest Banks in Asia 2019 and articles that are the legacy of 32 years of experience RANK NAME COUNTRY in international financial markets. Global Finance is 1 DBS Bank* headquartered in New York, with offices around the world. 2 Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation SINGAPORE Global Finance regularly selects the top performers among 3 SINGAPORE banks and other providers of financial services. These 4 Korea Development Bank awards have become a trusted standard of excellence for the 5 The Export-Import Bank of Korea SOUTH KOREA global financial community. 6 of Korea SOUTH KOREA

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AWARDS CEREMONY *The number 1 ranked Safest Bank in Asia will be invited to Global Finance’s Best Bank Awards ceremony in Washington DC at the National Press Club on October 19 during the IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings. For more information on the awards and/or ceremony please contact: Michael Ambrosio, email: [email protected].