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MESSAGE FROM CHAIRMAN AND CEO SUPERIOR AND DIFFERENTIATED CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE ACROSS OUR THREE CORE BUSINESSES OCBC’s three core pillars of banking, wealth management and insurance provide our more than 9 million customers with a comprehensive suite of financial solutions to support them in their growth journey across different life stages. CONSUMER BANKING/WEALTH MANAGEMENT Under Management Our Assets consumer banking and wealth management business offers customers access to a broad range of useful, suitable and affordable financial products and services. In 2017, the Group saw broad-based growth across the franchise and we worked tirelessly to improve the customer experience across every channel. ASSETS UNDER MANAGEMENT (S$ billion) 188.40 162.90 SERVING 8  IN  10 1 NO. 16 % FAMILIES WITH CHILD DEVELOPMENT ACCOUNTS IN SINGAPORE BANCASSURANCE MARKET SHARE IN SINGAPORE 2016 2017 Highest number of service excellence award winners 3 rd consecutive year Excellent Service Award (EXSA) for financial industry Please refer to Serving Individuals through Different Life Stages on page 22. COMMERCIAL/CORPORATE BANKING Corporate Loans In commercial and corporate banking, we continued to be the bank of choice for both established and emerging enterprises and saw strong year-on-year business growth. We are a leading bank to the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore, and our large corporate customers are served with our broad range of lending, treasury and funding solutions. CORPORATE LOANS (S$ billion) 122.70 132.25 8 % 1  IN  2 SMEs IN SINGAPORE BANK WITH US 2016 1 NO. 2 NO. LEAGUE TABLE RANKING FOR MALAYSIA SYNDICATED LOANS LEAGUE TABLE RANKING FOR SINGAPORE DOLLAR BONDS Asia’s Best Bank for SME S 2 nd consecutive year Euromoney Awards for Excellence 2017 Please refer to Supporting the Full Spectrum of Businesses in Their Growth Journey on page 26. INSURANCE Our insurance subsidiary, Great Eastern Holdings, is the oldest and most established life insurance group in Singapore and Malaysia. Its emphasis on improving the customer experience and delivering innovative services and products contributed to robust underlying insurance business growth in 2017. The partnership between Great Eastern Holdings and the rest of the OCBC Group has allowed us Eastern Holdings strengths Great Eastern Holdings Great Eastern Holding's Great Eastern that Holding's to Great draw on our collective to jointly develop new products and services match the lifestyle and needs of our customers. Group Net Profit Embedded Value total weighted new sales new business embedded value GREAT EASTERN HOLDINGS NET PROFIT (S$ million) 1,156 TOTAL WEIGHTED NEW SALES (S$ billion) 96 % 1.08 1.32 23 % NEW BUSINESS EMBEDDED VALUE (S$ million) 470 548 17 % EMBEDDED VALUE (S$ billion) 11.7 13.4 589 2016 6 2017 2016 OCBC ANNUAL REPORT 2017 2017 2016 2017 2016 2017 14 %