OCBC Bank was born out of the Great Depression through the consolidation of three banks in 1932 - the Chinese Commercial Bank Limited (incorporated in 1912), the Ho Hong Bank Limited (incorporated in 1917) and the Oversea-Chinese Bank Limited (incorporated in 1919). Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, Limited ( Chinese: 華僑銀行公司 pinyin: Huáqiáo Yínháng Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī), often known as OCBC Bank ( Chinese: 華僑銀行 pinyin: Huáqiáo Yínháng), is a Singapore multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered in OCBC Centre, Singapore.
