More banks in Singapore to offer money lock feature, but take-up rate low among young adults

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SINGAPORE: At least three more major banks – HSBC, Maybank and Standard Chartered – are set to offer the “money lock” feature to Singapore customers as early as by the middle of this year. The anti-...

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He chose to lock away about 70 per cent of his savings.\n“Having the assurance that this pool of money is locked away and will be safe from the hands of unscrupulous scammers out there is very comforting,” he said. “Psychologically, having this amount of funds locked up could also help one to be more disciplined in saving.”\nMr Liew said he chose OCBC because the bank allows customers to lock funds in their existing accounts, and in the process retain their interest rates.\nInitially, only OCBC offered such a service; customers of the other two banks had to open new, separate accounts to utilise the feature. However, DBS last month also extended its digiVault protection to existing accounts.\nAt 36 years old, Mr Liew is considered young among the demographic utilising the anti-scam feature.\nUSERS OF MONEY LOCK ARE OLDER\nAll three banks currently providing the feature said customers who use “money lock” tend to be older.\nUOB said most customers storing their cash in their separate LockAway accounts are 45 years old and above.\nOCBC said that among users of its Money Lock feature, those aged 50 and above make up 35 per cent, while those between 30 and 50 years old account for 50 per cent. Those under 30 years of age form just 15 per cent.\n\n\n\n\nBanks said they are reaching out to younger customers on social media to encourage them to keep their money safe by utilising the feature.\n“Specifically for the age group 30 years and below, we carry out very targeted communication. It's important that they plan their finances carefully, keeping their funds sufficient for expenses,” said Mr Dennis Lee, head of risk and prevention at OCBC.\n“The savings that they build up along the way for emergency use, for maybe their first home or marriage or their dreams, they should periodically lock them away from time to time so that they remain protected on an ongoing basis.”\nMORE BANKS UNVEILING FEATURE\nMaybank, which is looking at rolling out the security feature in June, said customers will continue to earn the same interest rates whether their funds are locked up or not.\nSimilar to other banks, customers will be able to lock funds in their current and savings accounts via internet banking and mobile banking.\nThe feature prevents money from being transferred even if a scammer gains access to a user’s digital account.\nMaybank Singapore’s head of community financial services Adam Tan said that while the money lock is an industry-wide scam preventive measure to protect customers, it is just one of many safeguards banks are continuously implementing to stay ahead of bad actors.\n“Scams are ever evolving. They will not end just because we have a money lock feature. We have other security features to prevent scammers from targeting victims,” he said.\nOther measures include anti-malware control in mobile banking applications, as well as a \"kill switch\" to immediately freeze accounts and stop internet banking access in instances when accounts are suspected to have been compromised.\nHSBC and Standard Chartered said their money lock feature will also be rolled out later this year.","kind":null,"is_publish_news":null,"is_publish_highlight":null,"is_publish_live":null,"is_publish_wemedia":null,"editions":null,"symbols":[],"gpt_button":1},"commentList":[],"isCommentEnd":true,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false},"APP":{"userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)","isDev":false,"isTTM":true,"deviceId":"web-server-community-laohu8-v3","version":"4.22.4","shortVersion":"4.22.4","platform":"web","vendor":"web","appName":"ttm","isIOS":false,"isAndroid":false,"isTiger":false,"isTHS":false,"isWeiXin":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"isWeiBo":false,"isQQ":false,"isBaiduSwan":false,"isBaiduBox":false,"isDingTalk":false,"isToutiao":false,"isOnePlus":false,"isHuaWei":false,"isXiaomi":false,"isXiaomiWebView":false,"isOppo":false,"isVivo":false,"isSamsung":false,"isMobile":false},"href":"/m/news/2420795304"}