Strategic Partnerships The bank is actively expanding through high-profile partnerships and long-term strategic agreements, including a ~US$2.0 billion+ infrastructure management partnership with Morrison Partnership and collaborative aircraft leasing initiatives with Novus Aviation Capital. This indicates a fertile market for treasury, asset servicing, and cross-border financing solutions.

Asset Financing Growth Recent headline activity shows continuous expansion in asset financing and investment vehicles, such as launching a third aircraft leasing investment vehicle. This creates opportunities to offer structuring, credit facilities, and risk analytics services to support large-scale asset portfolios.

Security Modernization Strategic investments in cloud-based authentication and security partnerships (OneSpan, SCSK) signal strong emphasis on digital banking security. This opens up sales opportunities for identity and access management, fraud prevention, and cloud security solutions.

Global Markets Footprint With the Americas Division and units like Global Banking and Global Market, SMTB NY Branch manages diverse U.S. corporate debt, leveraged loans, CLOs, and project finance. Potential opportunities exist for treasury management, risk analytics, and capital markets technology providers.

Sustainability & ESG Collaborations with Kao on environmental, social, and economic impact assessments indicate a priority on ESG initiatives. This suggests demand for ESG reporting tools, sustainable investment analytics, and impact measurement services for client portfolios.