i think that's their way to politely tell you to "fxxx off".

pbb is so rolling in cash from normal depositors that they are hardly bothered to fight for it. thanks no doubt to everybody's perception (especially the chinese) that they are the biggest, safest, won't fail bank around.

notice how their saving/fd rates are among the lowest and other than their mutual funds dept (which is really under a different management), they are really not bothered to call you up and introduce new schemes.

if you can access to proper private banks (as opposed to mass affluent banking), yep, you'll get more juicy offerings...from pre-ipo, ipo and private placements are the more common ones. however msian private bankers still relatively traditional compared to sg ones. there they may even offer u series a/b fundings if u qualify.