Singapore’s DBS Bank has launched a new mobile-banking app – DBS digibank – offering simpler, faster and smarter banking for its customers. Users of the service can see their bank balance without even logging in to the app. They just have to open up the app and slide and hold a button on the front page to ‘peek’ at their balance. Users can customize a ‘quick links’ page with shortcuts to their most frequently used services. Those with smartphones that have the Touch ID feature can log in to the app with their fingerprints. After logging in, users can open an additional banking account in just a few steps, without stepping into a bank branch. Similarly, OCBC has launched a new mobile-banking app designed for the Apple Watch. The app offers easy and instant access to users’ personal banking information and the location of the nearest OCBC branch or automated teller machine. Customers can check their bank account balances, information about their credit card use, bank loans, insurance, and up to five of their most recent transactions by tapping their Apple Watch, without having to log in to the mobile-banking app on their smartphones first.
