Can. But must be priority banking. Do you have the moo to cough up Rm250k and lock it with them?

Go with CIMB sg. You do t even need priority banking. All you nee dia just SGD1000 to open. I keep mine with SGD0.10 only inside.

TT in or TT out? If TT in then CIMB SG no fees. For outward remittance in SG, usually people use FAST or to a lesser extent MEPS and they are free/cheap (FAST definitely free, some banks charge on MEPS). For outward remittance to overseas, if possible can use fintech service providers like Wise/Instarem etc.

Regarding HSBC SG if TT free. Again time after time, you should remind yourself there is NO such thing as free in this world. This "free" service is paid for by the opportunity cost of locking several hundred of thousands with them to earn interest income and potentially highly lucrative wealth management fee from your some hundred thousands deposit.

In other words, you already "pay" them with your huge deposit.

Oligopolistic/monopolistic-competitive market like banks like to play with these kinds of "differentiated services", like different telcos offering different packages with different charges yet they look the same if you count the cost, or the different toothpaste brands with very similar net weight/packaging (few people know that Darlie's parent company Hawley & Hazel is 50% owned by Colgate-Palmolive).

always accepted. just that u have to go through maybank my.

Submitted my application to Maybank and documents have been couriered. Fingers crossed haha.

Plan B is to find opportunity to travel down to Sg to attempt to apply for DBS account with Vickers

Here you go. After you click apply this page comes up.
https://apply.maybank.com.sg/CASA/#/welcome...2539.1650277224

I tried to apply an iSavvy account online but it was stuck at the last stage simply because the OTP was not sent to my Malaysian mobile phone number. Called MBB Singapore and they said it could be the extra zero in front of phone number but MBB Malaysia can't do anything because that format is fixed lol.

Yes. If you don't want fall below fees go with cimb sg.

Malaysian practically impossi5 to open sg bank accounts since 1mdb issue. Thanks najib.

Just to update, I have received my letters 
Only pending the $500 transfer

anyone successfully opened the account , how long it takes for the online banking PIN to be sent to you? maybank sg sent the letter 1 month + ago , but until now i still have not got it? should i check with pos malaysia?

every few months put in money take out money

i opened a HSBC account instead .. haha

Good info there. Going to try apply DBS account soon. Thank you

No need priority banking. Follow my way. Take a flight or bus to Singapore. Go marina bay financial center, open DBS Vickers and open DBS multi currency. It's basically free acocunt. Only need to pay for transport fees, food and maybe accomodation if you want to stay overnight

Thanks, SCB does seem to have better features that I will use compared to HSBC.

But meanwhile CIMB SG Fastsaver account finally got approved after 2 months.
Within CIMB SG Fastsaver I can open a USD/GBP/AUD account online

You can try Maybank Singapore, if you have a Maybank Malaysia account. I applied online couple of months ago, it was approved the next day, and i transferred funds and started using it immediately.

Between HSBC Premier vs SCB Priority banking as a gateway to open a Singapore based account, which would be better in terms of:

a) options of investment within Malaysia
b) option of investment within Singapore
c) speed to open the account at MY and SG

Thanks all in advance