Just open one for my wife last month. Hai getting harder now. I also dare not give specific tip sked to spoil market.

The tips for opening with no pass non resident is you must be perfectly prepared before even step in the bank. Read from website of your target bank, contact customer service to find out requirements and prepare all documents then go the bank.

This tips only for kecik molek ppl like us. Rich guys anytime can open private accounts... millions of sgd one la.

Upper class but not that rich can open via international banks such as hsbc. Can say the rates are suitable for 5 digit sgd and above.

Good luck.

Folks,

Bump!!

Anyone successfully open Singapore Bank A/C without living or working in Singapore??

Thanks

Dreamer

Just open a securities trading account. They will give u a saving account also to deposit and withdraw money

Any banks in Malaysia able to perform  TT transactions via online from USD account?

My recent experience in Singapore banking - I opened a HSBC offshore account from the Orchard road branch quite easily though they did take about a week or so after sending them the required documents. Oddly enough, they did not want to open a local account for me even though I have a personalized employment pass in Singapore which I am not currently using as they wanted a rental contract as proof of address (friend's address on pass not enough apparently).

Their service has been pretty good so far. They responded very quickly to my initial funding from IB and they were very nice and polite at the branch (HUGE change in attitude from HSBC Malaysia).

HSBC Singapore.

When I finally went to close my foreign currency accounts in the premier centre at the Leboh Ampang branch day before yesterday after transferring all the balances to other HSBC foreign currency accounts in HK/Singapore, I got a lot of attitude from the relationship manager who apparently thought that getting me to open an account with fees and lack of basic services like depositing checks in foreign currency, foreign currency cash withdrawals was a major favor rather than clearly unprofessional when he should have known that the foreign currency accounts elsewhere have all that without fees. Even though I tried to just keep it business like and just close the account and get a refund of the fees, I got all snort of snarky statements about please go to Singapore for every transaction, did you need to fly here when I asked why I was being served after many others who came in before me etc. accompanied by what I call the "Malaysian bank employee" sneer. Again, all this is similar to other's experiences in Malaysia and so different from banking in the US/Singapore/HK etc. even without any sort of premier status,  leave alone the highly professional service I receive from IB or TD Ameritrade. OCBC Malaysia seems an exception (no trademark sneer there unlike Maybank, CIMB etc.) and their foreign currency account does accept cheque deposit so maybe there is hope to get okay local banking experiences and maybe my wife might even be able to open a local account here (gave up after trying 6 banks as she couldn't take the aggravation and insults - again a big contrast from the US where they used to call her and plead to open accounts with free bonus money etc.).

I have to wonder if they specially recruit people without manners or specifically train them to be rude in the Malaysian banks here. I understand that the pay etc. is crap here but even the mamak shop employees who are paid even less seem to be able to behave quite pleasantly and reasonably. The govt employees here have been amazingly pleasant and helpful too and people here are also socially nice so there is something definitely odd about the whole bank employee culture here.