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Singapore banks urged to make physical branches as convenient as their digital offerings

Ensuring customer loyalty and improving cybersecurity are also top priorities.

Singapore banks urged to make physical branches as convenient as their digital offerings

Ensuring customer loyalty and improving cybersecurity are also top priorities.

Singapore banks' non-interest income growing 7-8% annually since 2014

Non-interest income now constitutes about 40% of revenue.

Meet Emma: What you need to know about OCBC's chatbot

OCBC's Emma may have proven that chatbots are indeed the future of banking.

123RF bets on casual creatives with cloud tech M&A

Known for its affordable stock photos and digital design assets, Inmagine Inc’s 123RF is betting big on the casual creative market with its acquisition of Autodesk’s popular Pixlr family of digital editing apps.

Global value of contactless payments to hit $1.3t in 2019

And contactless card transactions will exceed $2t by 2021.

Check out how OCBC is faring in these three areas

The bank is doing well in its wealth segment.

OCBC to buy NAB's wealth business in Singapore and Hong Kong

NAB has about 11,000 customers across the two cities.

Fintech Enov8 allows banks to track and reduce their IT resources

Enov8 saved one Australian bank over $40 mn identifying duplicate and underused resources and licenses.

Singapore banks' wealth investments finally pay off

Higher income from wealth operations helped banks offset bad loan provisions.

Basel III implementation to be delayed in Asia Pacific

Regulators in the region are reluctant to take the lead.

3 in 4 APAC bankers to stop working with a partner who flunks cybersecurity audits

Bankers tagged large retailers as the greatest data breach risk in 2017.

Banks could save over $8b per annum by 2022 with chatbots

The success rate of bot interactions in banking could reach over 90%.