That is some serious inconsistency on HSBC part. All those I personally know who holds the HSBC Premier World MasterCard received the card automatically without the need to pledge any TD or show any proof of income.
You can see many such uncles at HSBC Kota Kinabalu Premier Centre but of course these uncles are no ordinary Tom Dick or Harry.

Access to which lounge ?

Airport lounge in malaysia? Can be accessible by so many other credit cards

Understood, if the card is mainly for accessing the lounge, then there are many alternatives. Unless there are other benefits ?

a bit ot here. you should consider maybank 2 cards premier if you are frequent traveler and your main focus is for travelling because you can fast track your points collection and convert to miles for business class ticket and also access to lounge + complimentary travel insurance if you charge your card for travel fare.

You just need to spend min 80k per annum to waive the annual fee

Hi, this month I also become a new CIMB Preferred too, and they gave me the Visa Infinite pre-approved, no documents, no question asked.

Basically I went in as a normal customer to put in their promo 4.4% for 6 months for a good amount of money, and they upgraded me straight + Visa Infinite.

Just got an SMS that the card got approved, and i did not submit any documents for it.

recently went to maybank and was informed that i need to maintain 250k at least a month to be entitled for PB...but it's not through application, they will offer u if you're eligible..is it the case?

im actually eyeing on free parking in maybank only lol...coz everytime i want to go maybank damn hard to find parking haha...

by the way for cimb, is it 250k as well?

are there better banks to go for PB rather than these two? TQVM for your advices hehe

Hello guys. Do you by any chance have the equivalent information about Maybank and cross-recognition?

I have a private banking/premier wealth banking account with Maybank Sg, and I have a nominal amount in very old "normal" Maybank account in My (which was from my SMK days in Malaysia some 40 years ago). The Maybank account in Malaysia was converted into an Islamic banking account (which pays no interest) from the previous current account. I've asked on the side of Singapore, who referred me onto their Malaysian counterpart dealing with off-shore banking. This was just before COVID19 struck. Since then, everyone's been working at home, and the Malaysian lady hasn't been able to help clarify my queries.

Essentially, I only have about RM250,000 in the Malaysian account, and that doesn't automatically qualify for premier status. If they have cross-recognition with Maybank SG, then qualifying for premier status wouldn't be an issue. Otherwise, I'll have to convert some SGD into RM.

Thanks in advance!

Thank you. I’ll just have to wait until MCO is over and the off shore banking lady from Maybank MY can help me set up my account then. Thank you again!

I get slightly better interest rates (usually between 0.25 to 0.5% more) than their promotional rates, and I get free use of various lounges at different locations. Also free limousine to airport and use of airport lounge but since we usually travel business class and above, the benefits are never utilised.

HL priority banking no standard.service is slow ,lack of amenities and fd promo is the same as mass market