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Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited (, ) (Simplified Chinese: 华侨银行有限公司), abbreviated as OCBC Bank (华侨银行), is a publicly listed financial services organisation with its head office in Singapore. Although publicly listed, OCBC Banks largest shareholder by a big margin is the Lee Group of Companies. Founded by Lee Kong Chian, the Lee family continues to exert a large influence on OCBC Bank, with two board seats occupied by Lee Seng Tee and Lee Tih Shih. OCBC Bank has assets of more than 224 billion SGD. Based on Bloomberg, in 2011 OCBC is the number one of World's 10 strongest $100 billion assets banks.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Canadians Dominate World's 10 Strongest Banks )〕 The "Oversea-Chinese" usage leads many to believe mistakenly that the bank's name is misspelled, but this is the correct traditional spelling. Although it is asserted that this is the correct spelling, "oversea" rather than "overseas", which is the correct use of the word in generic English, sounds uncomfortable and clumsy to native English speakers. The bank's global network has grown to comprise subsidiaries, branches, and representative offices in 18 countries and territories. It has retail banking subsidiaries in Malaysia, Indonesia, Hong Kong, and China, and branches in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, the UK and US. OCBC's Indonesia subsidiary, Bank OCBC NISP, has 630 branches and offices. == History == Founded in 1932, OCBC Bank was formed with the merger of three banks– Chinese Commercial Bank (1912), Ho Hong Bank (1917) and Oversea-Chinese Bank (1919). The bank expanded their operations under the management of local business and community leaders, notably Dato Lee Kong Chian (1938–1964), Tan Chin Tuan (1966–1983) and Lee Choon Seng (acting chairman during the Occupation) and became one of the largest banks in Singapore and Malaysia. In 1942 during World War II, all the local banks in Singapore closed briefly during the early days of the Japanese Occupation. By April 1942 most banks, including OCBC, had resume normal operations. In Indonesia, the Japanese occupation authorities closed OCBC's branches in Sumatra. During the war, the bank moved it's head office to Bombay, India and only re-registered back in Singapore after the war ended.〔The Straits Times, 31 Oct 1972, p. 4. October, 31, 1972. Retrieved 15 November 2015〕 OCBC's branch in Xiamen survived the war and in the 1950s, OCBC was one of only four foreign banks to have branches in China. After the war, OCBC re-established its branches in Djambi, Jakarta, and Surabaya. However, in 1963 conflict between Indonesia and Malaya (which then included Singapore), resulted in the closure of OCBC's branches there. That same year the revolutionary government in Burma nationalised OCBC's two branches there, which became People's Bank No. 14.〔Turnell (2009), p.226.〕 The bank was criticised for not expanding fast enough to meet the needs of the post-war Chinese business community, especially in the smaller towns of Malaya. One of the critics was Tan Khoo Teck Puat, who subsequent resigned to set up Malayan Banking. By 1970, the bank's total resources exceeded 1 billion SGD, making OCBC the largest financial institution with the biggest deposit base in Singapore. In 1972, OCBC acquired Four Seas Communications Bank, the oldest surviving bank in Singapore. The bank had been founded in 1906 as the Sze Hai Tong Bank and its founders had targeted the Teochew community. The bank had branches in Hong Kong and in Bangkok, where it had become the first Chinese bank there when it opened its branch in 1909. The next major acquisition occurred in 2001, when OCBC Bank acquired Keppel Capital Holdings and all its subsidiaries, including Keppel TatLee Bank, Keppel Securities, and Keppel TatLee Finance. The next year OCBC operationally and legally integrated Keppel TatLee Bank. In 2003 OCBC merged OCBC Finance into OCBC Bank. The official opening of e2 Power's Cyberjaya Office occurred in 2004. The same year saw the unofficial opening of OCBC Bank's new corporate HQ in Kuala Lumpur, and announced merger of asset management operations of OAM with Straits Lion Asset Management. OCBC opened an off-shore branch in Brunei. In 2006 OCBC completed acquisition of a 10% stake in Vietnam's VP Bank. VP Bank's full name is Vietnam Prosperity Joint-Stock Commercial Bank (formerly known as Vietnam Joint-Stock Commercial Bank for Private Enterprises) and it was established on 12 August 1993. Its headquarters are in Hanoi, and it has over 30 branches throughout Vietnam. *2007: Commencement of business of OCBC China. *2008: Acquired 67% shareholding in PacificMas Berhad. *2012: Heng Sou Sun promoted to Acting Chief Information Technology Officer of OCBC Bank Group. On 22 November 2013, OCBC completed the transfer of its entire 14.88% stake in VP Bank to local individual investors. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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