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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 ...
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 ]
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 ...
Keppel TatLee Bank (Chinese: 吉宝达利银行; pinyin: Jíbǎo Dálì Yínháng) was a Singapore-based financial services organisation formed through a merger of Keppel Bank and Tat Lee Bank on 26 December 1998. [3] [4] It was acquired by Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC) in August 2001 and was integrated into OCBC Bank in 2002. [5]
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.
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.
Singapore's central bank has imposed an additional capital requirement of S$330 million on OCBC Bank given deficiencies in the bank’s response to SMS phishing scams in December 2021.
He subsequently became a director of the second-largest bank in Southeast Asia, OCBC Bank, where he served from 1966 to 2016, and later chairman from 1995 to 2003. [3] He orchestrated a S$2.4 billion takeover bid for Singapore's then-fifth largest bank, Keppel Capital Holdings in June 2001.