Interesting story ... surely Citibank is taken aback by this public revelations.

Sure badly hit. Reputation is very important in the banking business.

List of banks and their priority banking services as well as minimum balance requirements:

1. Maybank Private Banking - RM 250k
2. RHB Infinity Banking - RM 200k
3. CIMB Club - RM 150k
4. Alliance Bank Privilege Banking - RM 200k
5. Bank Muamalat Prime Banking - RM 200k
6. Public Bank Red Carpet Banking - RM 250k
7. Hong Leong Priority banking - RM 200k
8. Citibank Citigold - RM 200k
9. HSBC Premier - RM 200k
10. OCBC Premier Banking - RM 300k
11. UOB Privilege Banking - RM 300k
12. Royal Bank Of Scotland Preferred Banking - RM 300k
13. Standard Chartered Priority Banking - RM 200k
14. KFH Priority Banking - RM 300k

Standard chartered now giving VISA Infinite for the priority banking customers.

Standard chartered now giving VISA Infinite for the priority banking customers.

Was told free for 1st year only.

I believe Maybank Private Banking is by invitation only ? So they definitely will call you up to join their Private Banking when you meet their requirement to be a Private Banking customer. Anyway, i think they should change their name "Private Banking" as some people might confuse it with Private Bank. Private Bank is not a locally incorporated entity of a bank and caters only to ultra high net worth people. Such as those people with USD10 million of investable assets etc. The nearest Private Bank can be found are all in Singapore such as HSBC Private Bank, Citi Private Bank, Standard Chartered Private Bank and many more. We used to have Private Banks in Malaysia but not anymore. The last Private Bank in Malaysia, which is HSBC Private Bank pulled out of the Malaysian market in 2004 or 2005 citing the Malaysian government policies do not allow Private Bank to operate profitably here in Malaysia.

For priority customer, you will entitle free for 3 years.

I tot Private Bank and Private Banking is the same??? For example CIMB has its CIMB Preferred for those with deposits of >RM150K, or loan of >RM500K. They also have higher ranked products called CIMB Private Banking that targetting on high networth individual with balance of RM1-2million with them, here are the details of CIMB private banking

http://www.cimbprivatebanking.com/index.php?tpt=pb

Can go the FAQ in the above website for the qualification to become its customer. I guess it is the first full service private banking in Malaysia, started in year 2002

In all other countries the VISA Infinite is free for life as long as you maintain your Standard Chartered Priority Banking status. You guys should check with your RM 
Private Banking service and Private Bank are different. Maybank also has Private Banking service. Most well known Private Bank need you need have at least USD10 million of investable assets in order to qualify to Private Bank customer.

Standard chartered now giving VISA Infinite for the priority banking customers.

dearie, r they giving u only visa infinite?

After I'd applied for the VI onli SCB decides to give it FOC ! *iSh*

Hi, I am not applying for it. I just see it in the newspaper so I do not know what else they will give you. Are you interested to get one?

as i know scb priority gave me master plat only but not the visa infinite and quite curious abt others got that too