Bankers played table football and stuck multi-coloured Post-it notes on a wall during one of the hackathons conducted by Singaporean bank DBS last year.
It is part of a growing trend as bankers around the world are prised out of their day jobs into such software workshops, to be lectured by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and told the way they work will radically alter as their platforms go digital.
DBS is shifting faster than most of its peers and will score every one of its 22,000 staff red, amber, or green according to how they’ve helped to turn the bank into a financial technology, or fintech, player....