United Overseas Bank
Overview
Pinyin
Pinyin is the official system to transcribe Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet in China, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan. It is also often used to teach Mandarin Chinese and spell Chinese names in foreign publications and used as an input method to enter Chinese characters into...
: Dàhuá Yínháng Yǒuxìan Gōngsī), abbreviated as UOB (Simplified Chinese: 大华银行; Pinyin
Pinyin
Pinyin is the official system to transcribe Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet in China, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan. It is also often used to teach Mandarin Chinese and spell Chinese names in foreign publications and used as an input method to enter Chinese characters into...
: Dàhuá Yínháng) is a bank
Bank
A bank is a financial institution that serves as a financial intermediary. The term "bank" may refer to one of several related types of entities:...
incorporated
Incorporation (business)
Incorporation is the forming of a new corporation . The corporation may be a business, a non-profit organisation, sports club, or a government of a new city or town...
in Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
. It was founded 6 August 1935 by Kuching
Kuching
Kuching , officially the City of Kuching, and formerly the City of Sarawak, is the capital and most populous city of the East Malaysian state of Sarawak. It is the largest city on the island of Borneo, and the fourth largest city in Malaysia....
-born Datuk Wee Kheng Chiang, father of the present United Overseas Bank Group Chairman, Mr. Wee Cho Yaw
Wee Cho Yaw
Mr Wee Cho Yaw , is the incumbent Chairman of the United Overseas Bank Group .Wee Cho Yaw joined the Board of Directors of the then United Chinese Bank in 1958...
, and a group of seven Chinese businessmen. UOB is currently the third largest bank based in Singapore.
UOB has grown from strength to strength and it is now a leading bank in Asia.
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