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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