POSB Toa Payoh Central Branch

Founded on January 1, 1877 as the Post Office Cost savings Bank (POSB), the bank was part of the Postal Solutions Department in the Straits Settlements and was set up by the colonial government to supply banking services for lower-income citizens.Following the end of World War II and the dissolvement of the Straits Settlement, the 1948 Savings Bank Regulation came into effect and in 1949, POSB was separated from the other post office cost savings banks in Malaya, with the bank’s liabilities and possessions split in between Singapore and the Federated Malay States. After the separation from 1949 to 1955, total deposits of the bank increased from M$ 27.4 million to M$ 57.6 million and in 1951, the bank had its 100,000 th depositor.