Standard Chartered/DBS Straits talk

Standard Chartered has been nipping round Asia snapping up smallish banks in different countries. Would it make sense for the UK-based emerging market bank to do something on a grander scale? There may be an opportunity to do so, if rumours in Asia are anything to go by. StanChart’s name has been linked with that of DBS, a $20bn Singaporean banking group. So insistent has the gossip become that last week, DBS was forced to deny that it had received a merger proposal from the UK bank. The story...