ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
28 MARCH 2024
1. Reflections on 2023
2. Significant multi-year outperformance through structural transformation
3. The way forward
1. Reflections on 2023
Record year in 2023
▪ Total income of $20.2 billion, net profit of $10.3 billion and ROE of 18% all at records
▪ Driven by higher NIM, rebound in fee income and record treasury customer sales
▪ Underlying cost-income ratio at 39%
▪ Asset quality resilient, specific allowances at 11 bp of loans, below cycle average
FY2023 ($m)FY2022 ($m)
YoY (%)
Total Income Expenses
Profit before allowances Total allowances
Net profit
Net profit incl one-time item
20,180 8,056 12,124 590 10,286 10,062
16,502 22
7,090 14
9,412 29
237 >100
8,193 26
8,193 23
ROE (%)
Group NIM (%)
Loans ($bn)
Deposits ($bn)
18.0 2.15 416 535
15.0 3pt
1.75
40 bp
415 1
527 3
Key revenue drivers: Institutional Banking Group
▪A Total income up 22% to record $9.36bn
Increase led by cash management income, partially offset by decline in trade income
($m)
FY2023
FY2022 YoY (%)
2,489
Expenses
2,254 10
Profit before allowances
6,868
5,434 26
Key revenue drivers: Consumer Banking Group
▪A Total income up 35% to record
$8.96bn
▪ Customer base up 6 million to 18 million
B▪ Strong growth in deposits and investment product incomeWealth management AUM increased 23% to record $365bn
($m) | FY2023 FY2022 YoY (%) |
Total Income
8,957
6,654 35
Profit before allowances
4,545
2,851 59
AUM ($bn)
365
297 23
Ordinary dividend increase of 28% for 2023.
Another 24% after 1-for-10 bonus with dividend yield of 6.5%
Dividend yield based on 27 March 2024 share price
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Other key achievements in 2023
Geographic strategy bearing fruit
▪ Citi Taiwan integration successfully completed
▪ Strong growth in Indonesia and India franchises
Digital strategies continue apace
▪ Economic outcomes from artificial intelligence more than doubled to $370m
▪ Continued digitalisation of Wealth, T&M, GTS businesses
Strong customer satisfaction
Strong employee satisfaction
▪ | #1in Asia-based large corporate market | Record employee engagement scores, |
penetration (Coalition Greenwich Survey) | significantly above financial services industry | |
average | ||
▪ | #1 in SG retail customer satisfaction (CSISG1, | |
Finance and Insurance Sector Survey) |
▪
Being recognised as a force for good
▪ World's Best Bank for Corporate Responsibility awarded by Euromoney
▪ Inaugural $100 million set aside as part of ten-year $1 billion CSR commitment
1Customer Satisfaction Index of Singapore
We have made good progress in improving technology resiliency
System ResiliencyChange managementProgress made
• Provided greater payments/ transaction certainty to customers
• Eliminating single points of failure for key services by Q1 2024
• Simplified system architecture and supplemented active-active configuration with hot standby for key systems
• Tightened software development process: tighter control gates
• Near-live production assurance test environment by Q1 2024 for FAST/ PayNow payments and account enquiry
• Enhanced vendor engagement for critical systems for faster response
Customers can expect
• Greater service availability
• Alternate channels for payments and account enquiries should issues occur
Incident Management
• Improved real-time monitoring at infrastructure, application and customer journey levels
• Streamlined process by centralising multiple first level command centres and tightening escalation protocol
• Faster full recovery of services
Tech Risk Governance & Oversight
• Instituted dedicated board-level oversight of technology risk management
• New CIO joining in May
• Strengthened independent tech risk function with senior hires
• Reinforcing tech risk control mindset and behaviour
• Greater payments/ transaction certainty for payer and recipient
We will continue with our investments to sustain efforts to provide reliable services
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