"Why I left OCBC and joined Grab"

The art of leaving banking and joining Singapore's hottest tech unicorn

Moving from banking to a small fintech startup has become a routine career change in Singapore recently – joining a local technology unicorn is far more unusual. Gary Wong took the latter route when he left OCBC in May this year to join Grab, the Singapore-headquartered tech company that started as a ride-hailing app and has more recently expanded into financial services. Grab is reportedly valued at close to $12bn and is backed by Microsoft, Toyota and SoftBank.

Wong, who spent about four years as OCBC’s head of strategic partnerships for lifestyle financing, is now the head of GrabPay, a mobile wallet app launched in Singapore in 2017. While most banking professionals with itchy feet spend countless hours fretting about whether to leave the sector, Wong says joining GrabPay simply “made sense”.

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