Singapore

DBS will end financing of projects linked to "dirty coal" by year-end, but is resisting pressure from environmental groups to cut existing lending to build coal-fired plants.

Southeast Asia's most valuable company by market cap will continue to finance projects in emerging markets that burns "higher quality" coal, while simultaneously start building out a portfolio of renewable energy projects to shift the mix of its loans, its CEO Piyush Gupta said at the bank's results briefing on Thursday.