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Off topic - DBS is hilarious in Singapore, the "World's best digital bank" 4 years in a row (forget the years) - who did they pay-off for that title.

You can't even export bank transactions older than 6-months from your account in CSV. You have to download - individually mind you - pdf statements and then good luck. This is the worlds best digital bank?

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Yeah banks here are so far behind what real neo-banks like Monzo are doing.

I left Monzo in the UK and came to Singapore to join Bigpay. We're building a proper digital challenger.

1.1m customers in Malaysia and about 1/10th that in Singapore.

My main pet peeve with Monzo is that it is App only which can be quite inconvenient. I wish they also offered a webpage. I hope you will consider that with Bigpay too.

DBS ain't too bad imho

Most countries have incredibly sub-par banking systems that work against the consumer. The UK is really on another level, though many countries are catching up.

I can't speak for Monzo but Revolut have presence in Singapore, and the product is incredibly feature rich.

> DBS is hilarious in Singapore, the "World's best digital bank" 4 years in a row (forget the years) - who did they pay-off for that title.

Euromoney [1], which, on first impression, seems to be one of those content farms that make most of its actual revenue off selling tickets to award ceremonies.

[1] https://www.euromoney.com/

The six months limit is so hilarious for a so-called “digital” bank. They still use old mainframe at the back so they are obviously constrained a lot my batch processing still. It takes 2-3 days for most card payments to be cleared, which is weird given PayNow and other real time payments work in real time.

On the note of PDF statements, I found that Okular on Linux was able to copy the table format that KBC Ireland use in their PDFs. That at least let me paste into a spreadsheet, massage the columns slightly, and then save as CSV for import into KMyMoney.

Having accounts in NZ, Aus, Singapore, and Taiwan.

Web banking in Singapore is bar none the best experience. It’s not even close.

Their deposits API ain't too bad. You can create bank accounts, get your transactions etc.

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