OVERSEA-CHINESE BANKING CORP: DAILY SHARE BUY-BACK NOTICE

Daily Share Buy-Back Notice
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Name of Announcer *	OVERSEA-CHINESE BANKING CORP
Company Registration No.	193200032W
Announcement submitted on behalf of	OVERSEA-CHINESE BANKING CORP
Announcement is submitted with respect to *	OVERSEA-CHINESE BANKING CORP
Announcement is submitted by *	Sherri Liew
Designation *	Assistant Secretary
Date & Time of Broacast	16-Aug-2012 17:54:54
Announcement No.	00079
Price Sensitivity	No

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Name of Overseas Exchange where Company has Dual Listing (if applicable)
(A) Share Buy-Back Authority
I. Maximum number of shares authorised for purchase *	172,006,708
(B) Details of Purchases Made
I. Purchases made by way of market acquisition	Yes
If answer to the above question is Yes, please fill in the following:

	Singapore Exchange	Overseas Exchange
1 Date of Purchases	16/08/2012
2a Total number of shares purchased	100,000
2b Number of shares cancelled	0
2c Number of shares held as treasury shares	100,000
3a Price paid per share# or	Currency: S$ Amount: 9.40	Currency: Amount:
3b Highest price per share#	Currency: Amount:	Currency: Amount:
Lowest price per share#	Currency: Amount:	Currency: Amount:
4 Total consideration (including stamp duties, clearing charges, etc) paid or payable for the shares#	Currency: S$ Amount: 941,231.42	Currency: Amount:
# Specify currency
II. Purchases made by way of off market acquisition on equal access scheme?		No
If answer to the above question is Yes, please fill in the following:
	Singapore Exchange	Overseas Exchange
1 Date of Purchases
2a Total number of shares purchased
2b Number of shares cancelled
2c Number of shares held as treasury shares
3 Price paid or payable per share#	Currency: Amount:	Currency: Amount:
4 Total consideration (including stamp duties, clearing charges, etc) paid or payable for the shares#	Currency: Amount:	Currency: Amount:
# Specify currency
(C) Cummulative Purchases

	By way of market acquisition		By way of off-market acquisition on equal access scheme		Total
	No.	% (1)	No.	%	No.	%
Cummulative no. of shares purchased to-date (2)	9,327,000	0.279	0	0	9,327,000	0.279
(1) Percentage of company's issued share capital as at the date of the share buy-back resolution
(2) From the date on which the share buy-back mandate is obtained
(D) Number of issued shares after purchase *			3,434,014,412

Footnotes

All references to "shares" in this notice shall be deemed to be references to OCBC ordinary shares. For information, the cumulative number of treasury share held is 7,085,279, which took into account the buyback of shares retained as treasury shares, as well as delivery of treasury shares under employee share schemes.