The Global Markets business in Singapore - which includes sales, trading and research for foreign exchange, equities, interest rate, credit, and derivatives - occupies the largest trading floor of any foreign investment bank in the city-state, and is the centerpiece of Deutsche Bank's presence in one of its newest buildings at One Raffles Quay. It is from here that Deutsche Bank facilitates liquidity flows to and/or on behalf of many of Asia's governments and leading companies in the region. The Singapore office is also a centre of structuring excellence, in which the Bank seeks to innovate across a range of asset classes in order to help further develop capital markets in multiple countries across Asia.

Aside from the importance that Deutsche Bank places on its regional operation in Singapore, the Singapore-focused business is also a leader in the local market. It has strong client relationships with government-linked companies, local corporations and other financial institutions as evidenced by the repeat business it has received from some of Singapore's top companies.

Deutsche Bank's Singapore office has carried out public capital market transactions on behalf of entities such as Temasek, DBS Bank, Keppel Land and Suntec Reit to name but a few. For its excellence in serving such clients, Deutsche Bank Singapore has been recognized through various awards over previous years. These include Best Foreign Investment Bank Singapore in the 2006 Finance Asia country awards, and Best Foreign Investment Bank in the 2006 and 2005 Asian Asset awards.

Deutsche Bank believes that it is important to contribute to the communities in which it operates. To this end, the Deutsche Bank Asia Foundation has participated in a number of charitable initiatives in Singapore, with the core focus of helping children in need.

Since 2004, Deutsche Bank has raised over S$500,000 for Children-At-Risk-Empowerment (CARE) Association, Balestier Special School and Assisi Children's Centre with the help of partner Children's Voice. And in 2007, Deutsche raised more that S$250,000 funds for the MILK (Mainly I Love Kids) Fund, which is dedicated to helping disadvantaged children.

In addition, the Bank strongly encourages staff to volunteer in local community projects through its DB Initiative Plus programme which rewards such service by individuals with a donation to the participating non-profit organisation.

Key recent public capital market transaction highlights for Deutsche Bank in Singapore include:

• May 2007 - Joint global coordinator and bookrunner for S$431 million (US$285 million) IPO for Rickmers Maritime
• May 2007 - Joint bookrunners and lead managers for US$2 billion subordinated notes offering for DBS Bank
• April/May 2007 - Joint bookrunner and lead manager for US$400million Senior Notes offering, and US$125 million convertible bond offering for PT Berlian Laju Tanker
• March 2007 - Sole global coordinator and joint bookrunner for First Ship Lease Trust US$333 million IPO, the largest IPO of a business trust in Singapore by market capitalisation