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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 ...
OCBC Centre is a 197.7 m (649 ft), 52- storey skyscraper in Singapore. Serving as the current headquarters of OCBC Bank, the building was completed in 1976 and was the second-tallest building in the country, and South East Asia, at that time. [4] There are two extensions, OCBC Centre South and OCBC Centre East.
Merged into Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation and renamed Singapore Island Bank. Not to be confused with the current Bank of Singapore which is renamed from ING Asia Private Bank. [3] Chung Khiaw Bank Limited. 崇僑銀行有限公司. Singapore. 1999. Merged into United Overseas Bank. Far Eastern Bank Limited.
OCBC Group. Website. www.bankofsingapore.com. 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. [2]
Lee Wah Bank was founded in 1920 in Singapore, with its first Malaysian branch opened in 1956. In 1973, Lee Wah Bank became a wholly owned subsidiary of UOB and was merged with UOB Malaysia in 1994. In 1997, UOB Malaysia merged with Chung Khiaw Bank (Malaysia) before merging with OUB Malaysia in 2002 to centralise its operations in Malaysia.
Raffles Place. Raffles Place is the centre of the Financial District of Singapore and is located south of the mouth of the Singapore River. [1] It was first planned and developed in the 1820s as Commercial Square to serve as the hub of the commercial zone of Singapore in Raffles Town Plan. It was renamed Raffles Place in 1858 and is now the ...
With a height of 190 metres (623 ft), [3] the International Plaza was one of the three tallest buildings in Singapore when it was completed in 1976; the other two were OCBC Centre (201 metres; 659 feet) [4] and DBS Building (186 metres; 610 feet). [5] International Plaza was the tallest commercial building with residential apartments in ...
White Sands was developed by OCBC Properties Pte Ltd and was the first major mall to be opened in Pasir Ris in December 1996. Like a typical suburban mall at the time, it had an Eng Wah cinema, Singapore's first Timezone arcade (the largest arcade in Singapore as of that point), a food court, a John Little department store, a Courts store, a Popular bookstore, a post office, a NTUC FairPrice ...