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Company announcement/payments

UOB forms rewards and loyalty partnership with Fave

UOB have taken aim at disrupting the traditional banking rewards experience with the launch of UOB Rewards+, an initiative which also sees the Bank joining forces with Fave.

27 October 2021

News/sustainable

Banks back new Singapore sustainability platform for SMEs

A new joint venture formed by three Singapore technology companies has signed up a host of industry players to the development of a platform providing SMEs with carbon tracking tools and green financial services.

15 October 2021

Company announcement/sustainable

UOB and ADDX collaborate on sustainability-linked digital bond

UOB and digital securities exchange ADDX have concluded the digitisation and digital custody of the inaugural sustainability-linked bond recently launched by Sembcorp Industries (Sembcorp).

07 October 2021

News/retail

UOB to invest $500 million in digital banking initiatives

Singapore's UOB is to invest up to $500 million in digital innovation initiatives as it seeks to double the retail customers it serves digitally to more than seven million customers across Asean by 2026.

30 September 2021

Company announcement/sustainable

UOB gears up green financing with U-Drive

UOB has launched U-Drive, an integrated green financing solution for the electric vehicle (EV) ecosystem in Singapore.

16 September 2021

Company announcement/wealth

UOB Asset Management sees surge in online corporate investing

UOB Asset Management Ltd (UOBAM) is seeing a surge in online corporate investing, with the number of users in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand[1] on its digital investment portal for corporate investors, UOBAM Invest, jumping 330 per cent over the last 18 months[2]. Their total assets under management (AUM) on the online portal also surpassed S$1 billion.

12 July 2021

News/markets

UOB to pilot digital bond offering on Marketnode

UOB has become the first bank in Singapore to run its latest bond offering using a distributed ledger platform developed by Singapore Exchange and Temasek.

16 June 2021

News/identity

UOB to pilot use of digital IDs for product applications

UOB has become the first bank in Singapore to pilot the use of Sign with Singpass, the country's national digital identity framework, to confirm transactions or product applications using a customer’s digital signature.

10 June 2021

Company announcement

UOB deploys Chronicle Software for electronic FX pricing and trade engine

UOB today announced that it has deployed Chronicle Software’s (Chronicle) EFX solution for its electronic foreign exchange (FX) pricing and trade engine.

02 June 2021

Company announcement/sustainable

UOB names Eric Lim as chief sustainability offier

UOB has appointed Mr Eric Lim as its first Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO).

09 April 2021

Company announcement

Singtel's Dash mobile wallet to offer robo-advisory services via UOB

Singtel and UOB Asset Management (UOBAM) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to offer dynamic and personalised robo-advisory investment solutions to individual investors through Singtel’s Dash mobile wallet.

14 December 2020

News/regulation

UOB boosts AML efforts with AI

UOB is hailing the accuracy of its new AI anti-money laundering technology in helping the Singaporean bank cut through large volumes of transactions to pinpoint suspicious activities.

07 December 2020