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This is a list of banks with operations in Singapore. Location of incorporation is provided in brackets for foreign banks. There are, at present over 150 banks and deposit-taking institutions, and 45 banks with representative offices in Singapore. (EFA=Exempt Financial Adviser; ACU=Asian Currency Unit; SGS=Singapore Government Securities Market)
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 ...
OCBC Bank has assets of S$164 billion and a network of 390 branches and representative offices in 15 countries and territories including Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, China, Hong Kong SAR, Taiwan, Brunei, Myanmar, Japan, Korea, Australia, United Kingdom and the United States.
Singapore: 63.0 3 Bank Rakyat Indonesia Indonesia: 50.1 4 OCBC Bank Singapore: 39.7 5 United Overseas Bank Singapore: 38.0 6 Bank Mandiri Indonesia: 26.9 7 Maybank Malaysia: 24.7 8 Public Bank Berhad Malaysia: 21.2 9 Vietcombank Vietnam: 16.9 10 CIMB Malaysia: 12.2 11 Bank Negara Indonesia Indonesia: 12.1 12 BDO Unibank Philippines: 11.3 13 ...
In September 2001, UOB acquired Overseas Union Bank, then Singapore's fourth largest local bank, in a deal worth S$10 billion. [15] [16] United Overseas Bank History Plaque. In 2002, UOB started expanding into the Chinese market by opening a new full-service branch office in Shanghai and upgrading of its Beijing office to a full-service branch ...
The bank was previously known as The Development Bank of Singapore Limited, which "DBS" was derived from, before the present abbreviated name was adopted on 21 July 2003 to reflect its role as a global bank. [2] It is one of the "Big Three" local banks in Singapore, along with Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC) and United Overseas Bank ...
[5] [7] Its current headquarters, the Bank of Singapore Centre at Market Street which is located in the heart of Raffles Place, was officially opened on 22 June 2011. [8] In April 2016, OCBC announced that Bank of Singapore, its private banking subsidiary, had acquired the wealth and investment management business of Barclays in Singapore and ...
OCBC Wing Hang logo used until 2023. Singapore's OCBC Bank acquired Wing Hang in 2014 for S$6.23 billion. [7] Under the Hong Kong Companies Ordinance, OCBC Bank, with 97.52 percent of Wing Hang's shares, compulsorily acquired the bank on 29 July 2014. OCBC Wing Hang was subsequently delisted after the acquisition was completed. [8] [9]