United Overseas Bank (UOB)

UOB is a Singapore bank with more than 90 years of operating history with AA rating. Our strength is our ASEAN franchise where we are the largest foreign bank in Malaysia, 2nd largest foreign bank in Thailand, more than 100 branches in Indonesia and 7 in Vietnam. This allows us to provide seamless, on the ground banking and advisory support across key ASEAN markets.

Specifically, our team FDI Advisory provides advisory and connectivity across 3 levels:

1. Government agencies – helping corporates to understand incentives, licensing and regulatory navigation. We have MOUs with EDB and ESG in Singapore and also through the other investment agencies such as MIDA, BKPM, FIA and BOI in ASEAN.

2. Professional ecosystem – linking corporates with legal, tax, industrial park developers, and even helping them to hire. This will allow investors to leverage on our partnerships and relationships on the ground.

3. Supply chain localisation – This is the most interesting as FDIs are seldom able to bring the whole supply chain over and localizing helps them to lower costs, increase local contents and diversify the risks.

Through this platform, we aim to shorten time-to-market and de-risk cross-border expansion across Southeast Asia.