About UOB China

United Overseas Bank (China) Limited (UOB (China)) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB), a leading bank in Asia. UOB (China) is headquartered in Shanghai and was incorporated in the People’s Republic of China on 18 December 2007.

From our first representative office in Beijing in 1984, we have grown our network to 16 branches and sub-branches in major Chinese cities.

We have also been building on our strengths. In 2006, UOB was the first bank from Southeast Asia authorised to settle capital accounts in Shanghai. We received a retail RMB licence and Shanghai Gold Exchange (SGE) trading membership in 2008 and 2011 respectively. In 2012, we were awarded a Qualified Domestic Institutional Investors licence, and were one of four foreign banks to participate in bullion trading on the SGE interbank platform.

UOB (China) is one of the first foreign banks to obtain a local mutual fund licence in China, in 2013. The following year, we established a sub-branch in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, and obtained a trial market maker licence for inter-bank gold bilateral transactions and a market maker licence for direct trading between RMB and the Singapore dollar in the interbank foreign exchange market. We also obtained the gold import and export licence in 2015. In 2018, UOB became one the first market makers do execute direct trading between the RMB and the Thai Baht. UOB has also successfully priced its three-year onshore RMB financial bond through the China Interbank Market (CIBM) and the Bond Connect scheme (BCS), which is the first onshore financial bond issued by a Southeast Asian bank through the BCS. These achievements have enabled us to widen our product and service offering to our customers operating in China.

As we continue to grow our business, we remain committed to sharing our successes with the community. Since 2012, we have held the annual UOB Heartbeat Run/Walk to raise funds for underprivileged children and to support various education initiatives in China.

In 2015, UOB Group increased the registered capital of UOB (China) by RMB2.5 billion to RMB5.5 billion.

UOB (China) is rated ‘A+’ with stable outlook by Fitch Ratings.

For more information about UOB (China), please visit www.UOBChina.com.cn or follow the UOB (China)’s public account on WeChat.