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While traditional prank phone calls may be a thing of the past thanks to things like caller-ID, you can still trick your friends and family members with numbers that direct them to hilarious hotlines.
Former OCBC Bank in South Bridge Road, Singapore.. On 31 October 1932, three banks – Chinese Commercial Bank (1912), Ho Hong Bank (1917), and Oversea-Chinese Bank (1919) – merged and consolidated their strengths to form Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation under the leadership of Hoklos Tan Ean Kiam (co-founder and managing director of Oversea-Chinese Bank) [15] [16] and Lee Kong Chian, who ...
Until 1985, subscribers' telephone numbers in Singapore were five and six digits. Five digits were introduced in 1960s, whereas 5-digit and 6-digit phone numbers were introduced in 1960s as fixed lines grew, but in that year, these changed to seven digits as the introduction of new towns arose (Tampines, Jurong East, Bukit Batok, Yishun and Hougang) and a large number of new numbers were required.
British physicist R. V. Jones recorded two early examples of prank calls in his 1978 memoir Most Secret War: British Scientific Intelligence 1939–1945.The first was by Carl Bosch, a physicist and refugee from Nazi Germany, who in about 1933 persuaded a newspaper journalist that he could see his actions through the telephone (rather than, as was the case, from the window of his laboratory ...
Commercial banks in Singapore may undertake universal banking, such as the taking of deposits and the provision of cheque services and lending, as well any other business authorised by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, including financial advisory services, insurance brokering and capital market services, as long as they are permitted under section 30 of the Banking Act.
Bank of Singapore is the private banking arm and a wholly owned subsidiary of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC), Southeast Asia’s second largest bank. Formerly known as ING Asia Private Bank , it was acquired by OCBC in 2009 from ING Group for US$ 1.46 billion. [ 3 ]
NETS operates Singapore's national debit scheme enabling customers of DBS Bank, POSB, HSBC, Maybank, OCBC Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, CIMB and UOB to make payments using their physical/contactless ATM cards or mobile devices at more than 120,000 acceptance points in Singapore including major retailers, food courts, hawker centres, convenience stores and supermarkets.
Bank name Country Total assets (US$ billion) 1 DBS Bank Singapore: 509.1 2 OCBC Bank Singapore: 402.2 3 United Overseas Bank Singapore: 340.7 4 Maybank Malaysia: 213.2 5 CIMB Malaysia: 149.3 6 Bangkok Bank Thailand: 130.7 7 Kasikornbank Thailand: 124.3 8 Bank Mandiri Indonesia: 121.1 9 Bank Rakyat Indonesia Indonesia: 117.7 10 Public Bank ...