At least they are maintaining the dining discounts. Will keep one card for this purpose.

Guys, Standard Chartered will be discontinuing:
- 0.5% Cash Back on all retail transactions (Business Plat & Business Gold)
- Free access to KLIA Plaza Premium Lounge (Business Plat & Plat)
- Complimentary travel insurance (all related cards)
- Complimentary Home/Motoring Assistance (Gold & Classic)
- Complimentary Purchase Protection Plan (all related cards)

Besides that, all purchases made from 2nd January 2013 onward will no longer earn you any Choice Point until further notice. A new rewards program is planned, by the way.

From the notice I received, it seems that the new revamped rewards program is expected to be unveiled some time in the 2nd quarter of 2013. Well, it better be good because they can't give all these free cash forever.

Without all these benefits, I have really no idea why am I keeping this card.

http://www.standardchartered.com.my/_docum...otification.pdf

But, needing 67000 points to redeem RM100 cash voucher, that's ridiculous. I bet those "loyal" to SCB and have been "promoting" SCB here at LYN for the last few years and not wining any of their contest must be pissed off big time.

I'm not a fan of SCB and I guess I made the right move when I cancelled my Standard Chartered Bank Visa Infinite early this year.

what type of cash back? 2% cash back on weekday and 5% cash back on weekend?

The cash back should be provided on next 1-2 days..cannot be more than 1 month

From 1 April 2013, spend with any Standard Chartered Credit Card and you could be well on your way
to your next holiday with a redeemed flight. Because now, you can earn 360° Rewards Points and convert them into AirAsia BIG Points. With flights to redeem, you can now fly to more places around the world.

http://www.standardchartered.com.my/person...nbnr_5x_airasia

Also earn 5x points when you spend on local retails in April and May.

Need to read more to check whether existing points can be used to redeem the BIG Points or not.

add:
Air Asia Miles
1000 BIG Miles
Rewards Code:  201450
Points Required:  9,000
Mode of Delivery:  Air miles credit

I am not very clear myself. If it is something 'exciting', I would expect that SCB would want to disseminate it in a bigger way

  no point then.

I only want to hold max 2 CC. (RM100) Gov tax. Best if can have CC that is all round benefit. It use to be for SCB Business card. But ever since they remove points earnings and jack up the points required to get goodies. This is no longer the case.

Now I think Maybank 2 CC is better. AMEX + Visa/MC.

The SCB PB VI lounge access alone is far superior than the meagre point rewards

Made few calls before, so far all the CS officers I got were pretty polite and patient. Maybe it depends on luck

Move to 3rd quater, any news regarding the rewarding system?
If no, then I would like to cancel the card within July.