Under Indonesia's new bank rules, DBS will also have to pass three financial tests over 18 months.
Investors would love to see the cable firm sell the DBS service after it launches--assuming it ever does.
The most common risk with DBS is infection -- and I believe the mortality rate is very low.
Our top picks are Cheung Kong and Sun Hung Kai in Hong Kong and DBS Land in Singapore.
Idle noise was 35.1dBa, which was only a couple of dBs above background noise in the living room.
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That was 10 years ago and at the time, I swore I would never have deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery.
"Domestic demand momentum is certainly picking up and this will spill over into 2013, " said Eugene Leow of DBS Bank.
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But the deal, in which DBS would buy a controlling stake from Singapore state investment firm Temasek Holdings, faces significant regulatory hurdles.
In the TV series The Persuaders, international playboy Brett Sinclair, 15th Earl of Marnock, drove an Aston Martin DBS with the number plate BS 1.
Still, the news of Interpublic's hire was surprising, given all the foot dragging that's surrounded what has been dubbed the "Rainbow DBS" service.
"Firm CPI numbers raise upside risks for the WPI inflation number, especially on food costs, " said Radhika Rao, an economist at DBS Bank.
Singapore's DBS Group has received approval to buy a 40% stake in Indonesia's Bank Danamon, more than a year after it launched a multi-billion dollar takeover bid.
Its focus on the mass consumer market fits with DBS's goal of becoming a leading Asian bank with a more diversified revenue mix across some markets.
"We can approve the 40% ownership of Danamon by DBS and will not give them more unless there is some reciprocity, " said Indonesia's outgoing central bank governor Darmin Nasution.
The two holes allowed Gross to insert hollow tubes called cannulas, which created a pathway for the DBS electrodes -- one on each side of the brain.
Women with severe, life-threatening anorexia experienced dramatic improvement for the first time in their lives after a breakthrough deep brain stimulation (DBS) experiment published today in The Lancet.
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For DBS to get full control, Indonesian regulators said, Singapore would have to allow more Indonesian banks to open branches in the city-state, in what they called a "reciprocity" arrangement.
This year's merger between DBS Group Holdings of Singapore and the Dao Heng Bank of Hong Kong illustrates the high price outsiders are willing to pay for quick entry--3.2 times book.
"If DBS can only buy 40% of Danamon, they will walk away from the deal, " Mr. Koh said indicating that the Singapore bank would not want to be a minority shareholder.
"The central bank is unlikely to embark on an aggressive easing cycle if they are not convinced that the structural constraints have been addressed, " said Radhika Rao, economist at DBS bank.
It merged with Far East Bank to form the largest local lender, and tied up with Singapore's DBS to lift regional operations, even as domestic banking opens up further to foreigners.
Cautions will be filtered from record checks by the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), formerly known as the Criminal Records Bureau, after six years for adults and two years for young offenders.
Singapore's DBS Bank is spreading across Asia and is becoming a formidable competitor to the big international banks such as Standard Chartered, HSBC and Citigroup in some of the world's fastest-growing markets.
But they are also required for prospective adopters of children in England and Wales and in a variety of other instances, which are listed here on the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) website.
By this measure, it is bigger than Singapore's DBS Group and Korea's Kookmin Bank, and has attracted big stakeholders such as the Temasek fund of Singapore (it has 7.6%) and CLSA and Merrill Lynch funds.
DBS, once the Development Bank of Singapore and still the banking face of the island state and its Temasek investment fund, is seen pushing outward from its Southeast Asian base toward a broader pan-Asian presence.
Analysts at DBS Bank Ltd. in Singapore suggested the U.S. housing data was not all that spectacular, since it reflects a big jump not in single family homes but in apartment construction, which is typically volatile.
Last week, DBS Group Holdings Ltd.
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