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Singapore's OCBC Bank, with more than eight decades of history, has built its SME strategy around a deceptively simple business banking application called Velocity — but the story behind it spans far more than a single product. OCBC is helping small and medium enterprises navigate five common pressure points: shifting customer preferences, competitive intensity, ageing technology, inefficient internal processes and constrained access to financing.

OCBC has streamlined business account opening into a same-day digital process — a first for Singapore — and built out a suite of financing options spanning working capital, venture funding for innovative business models, contract financing and peer-to-peer lending partnerships. Sustainability also features prominently, with the bank working alongside a cohort of early-mover companies to help them integrate environmental, social and governance considerations into their operations through green financing and advisory support.

Talent development receives significant attention, including large-scale reskilling investments in data science, cybersecurity and future-of-work competencies for employees, delivered in partnership with local polytechnics and universities. OCBC's one-stop digital business dashboard brings together accounting, marketing and operational data into a single view for SME owners — part of a broader strategy to make the bank a genuine partner across the full SME business journey rather than just a financing provider.

<blockquote>What does it take for a legacy bank to become a genuine digital partner in an SME's day-to-day business journey, rather than just its lender?</blockquote>

OCBC increases the ‘Velocity' of SME digital transformation

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