OCBC Securities, led by managing director Wilson He, is Singapore’s best securities house for 2024, gaining plaudits for evolving with the times, staying on top of client needs, thinking out of the box and – importantly – finding its niche and dominating that.

In the past year, OCBC Securities has made big headways on leveraging technology and digitalization to transform clients’ financial experience, becoming the natural choice for this Euromoney award.

OCBC wins the award as Singapore's best digital bank this year for enhancing its digital banking service through a series of initiatives designed to deepen engagement and improve the user experience across its platforms.

OCBC had a busy 2023, launching new FX features, application programming interface (API) integration and improvements to its online platform.

OCBC NISP proved an invaluable partner to its small and medium-sized enterprise clients in Indonesia throughout 2023 with the launch of its Nyala Bisnis 2.0 platform and initiatives to empower women-owned SMEs.

Bank SinoPac has long focused on initiatives to promote responsible and inclusive finance, primarily by channelling loans to small businesses. The total outstanding of such lending to small and medium-sized enterprises was NT$325 billion ($10 billion) at the end of 2023.

Bank of Singapore (BoS) put a strong focus on environmental, social and governance in 2022, and that focus has certainly paid off. Over the last four years, the bank’s ESG investments business has more than tripled, thanks to a host of new sustainable product offerings.

Will the bank’s payouts after a phishing scam set a precedent?

The full-year results of DBS, OCBC and UOB marked the first time in a year the Singaporean banks had attempted to give any kind of media briefing face-to-face.

OCBC, UOB and DBS are among the first lenders in Asia to report 2020 numbers. They’re in surprisingly good shape.

Wong’s departure from HSBC, where she was head of Greater China, in August 2019 raised the questions of where could she be going and why. The answer is that she will succeed Samuel Tsien as OCBC’s chief executive. What does it mean for the bank?

OCBC’s Virtual SME Campus has an expensive public face.

Bank of Singapore reports positive first year of operations for Luxembourg subsidiary.