Singapore’s largest bank has history and geography both aligned in its favor. Its strategy is nimble, balance sheet healthy, and the lending landscape as promising as last year’s was gloomy. With a little luck, DBS Group Holdings Ltd. will exude strength when it meets upcoming virtual challengers. The lender’s fourth-quarter results don’t really give a glimpse of what to expect. Net income fell 33 per cent from a year earlier to S$1.01 billion ($762 million), missing the average analyst estimate in a Bloomberg News poll. Credit costs stayed elevated at S$577 million, broadly unchanged from the previous three months. With this, however, DBS has made full-year loan-loss provisions of slightly more than S$3 billion, matching the lower end of the two-year S$3 billion to S$5 billion hit it had anticipated from Covid-19.