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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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ]
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 ]
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 ...
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.
When SAFTI (Singapore Armed Forces Training Institute) was reorganised in 1995, it acquired the name SAFTI Military Institute, further abbreviated as SAFTI MI, which when fully expanded would form a rather awkward title Singapore Armed Forces Training Institute Military Institute.