Hong Leong Bank

Hong Leong Bank is a financial services company and one of Malaysia's leading banks, providing digital and physical banking solutions to individuals, businesses and communities across Southeast Asia. Founded in 1905 as Kwong Lee Mortgage and Remittance Company in Kuching, Sarawak, the bank has operated for more than a century and now conducts business in six markets: Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia and China.

The bank serves customers through three main channels. HLB Connect, its mobile banking application, provides digital banking services; a network of physical branches covers its Southeast Asian markets; and self-service terminals complement both the digital and branch channels. Its technical work spans digital banking, mobile banking technology, self-service banking technology and financial technology more broadly, alongside retail and business banking operations.

Hong Leong Bank describes its approach as "Digital at the Core", combined with a human touch, and reports heavy investment in technology intended to make banking simpler and more efficient. The company retains entrepreneurial roots from its founding, and frames its work around problem-solving and the provision of financial tools and guidance, rather than the promotion of products.