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List of banks in Singapore

This is a list of banks with operations in Singapore. Location of incorporation is provided in brackets for foreign banks. There are, at present, 111 commercial banks, 49 merchant banks, and 45 banks with representative offices in Singapore.

Contents
1 Commercial banks

1.1 Local banks

1.1.1 Full banks
1.1.2 Defunct banks

1.2 Foreign banks

1.2.1 Full banks
1.2.2 Qualifying full banks
1.2.3 Wholesale banks
1.2.4 Offshore banks

2 Merchant banks
3 Representative offices of banks
4 External links

Commercial banks

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 broking and capital market services, as long as they are permitted under section 30 of the Banking Act. Since July 2001, banks were no longer permitted to engage in non-financial activities.

Local banks

In a bid to encourage consolidation of the local banking industry to form larger banking congolmerates better able to regionalise and compete with foreign banks, the government liberalised the banking sector by awarding greater liberty for foreign banks to operate in Singapore in 2001. Since then, the number of local full banks has shrunk by more than half to 5 today.

Full banks

There are presently 5 locally-incorporated full banks in Singapore, owned by three banking groups. These full banks have the liberty to provide any financial service as permitted by the Banking Act.

Defunct banks

  • Overseas Union Bank (OUB)
  • POSbank
  • Keppel Bank
  • Tat Lee Bank

Foreign banks

There are presently 106 foreign commercial banks in Singapore, of which 24 are Full banks, 35 are Wholesale banks, and 47 are Offshore banks.

Full banks

Although foreign banks with full bank licences can also offer most commercial banking services to clients compared to local banks, they are restricted in terms of number of branches and automated teller machines.

Qualifying full banks

Liberalisation of the banking sector saw the government creating a new category under the foreign banks category, called the Qualifying Full Bank (QFB). The first four licences were awarded on 20 October 1999 to ABN AMRO, Banque Nationale De Paris (now BNP Paribas), Citibank (transferred to newly locally-incorporated Citibank Singapore on 28 June 2004) and Standard Chartered Bank. Two new licences were issued in December 2001 as part of the second phase of bank liberalisation, namely to the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation and Malayan Banking. These QFBs are permitted to operate up to 15 service locations.

In June 2004, the QFB license was further liberalised. QFBs are permitted to establish up to 25 service locations of which up to 10 can be branches from 1 January 2005. These banks were permitted to share their ATM networks, and provide services via the EFTPOS network from 1 July 2002. On the same day, they are also permitted to provide the Central Provident Fund's Supplementary Retirement Scheme and Investment Scheme accounts and to accept CPF fixed deposits.

Wholesale banks

Wholesale bank licences were first issued in December 2001 to replace the "Restricted Bank (RB)" license as a reflection of greater services which may be conducted by these banks. These banks may conduct the same range of services as full banks, except that they do not deal with banking activities in the Singapore Dollar, and can only have one main branch.

Offshore banks

Merchant banks

Representative offices of banks

External links

Last updated: 06-05-2005 14:21:38
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