would just like to say thanks to Ramjade. i recently successfully activated my cimb fastsaver-i account following your instructions in this thread. the whole process was done online without having to travel to singapore or even a local bank branch.

nice one

now all i need is someone to tell me how to create an Xfers account without a singapore phone number

to register for binance.sg.
its a fiat gateway to bitcoin.

for fiat gateway in singapore, i need an intermediary. cannot direct buy from binance.
in malaysia previously, we can buy through luno directly but now that has stopped because of licensing issues. so, no more official fiat gateway to btc in malaysia. this is why i opened a sg bank acc so I potentially could use binance/coinbase singapore. im staying in JB and travel to singapore quite often anyway so its not too difficult for me to get a singapore sim card but there isnt one that is cheap to maintain over a long period. so, i prefer not to buy a sg number.

you can register to trade on binance, no issue. but if you want to buy crypto using fiat, that is a different process altogether.