Prominent Singapore banker Wee Cho Yaw is gradually coming to grips with using information technology (IT) in his daily work, the Sunday Times reported.
The 71-year old founder of United Overseas Bank — one of Singapore's four biggest banks — started using computers and the Internet last year, and now makes it a point to keep up with the latest in technology with the aid of the bank's IT employees, the local newspaper said.
"Because Internet banking is so important these days, I really have no choice but to keep up with the latest computer technology," he said.
"I also make it a point to find out more about IT services when I meet foreign bankers or overseas IT specialists who call at the bank," Wee said.
Earlier this year, Wee said the local banks faced the challenge of meeting the ever-increasing demands of IT-savvy consumers.
However, the banker still finds communicating by e-mail a chore and restricts his usage of computers to the workplace.
"It takes me many hours to type one paragraph," he said.
"I dictate my replies to my e-mail to my secretary, who then sends out the messages for me."
Wee said the most difficult part of his IT education was making the transition to reading text on a PC screen.
"I've been so used to handling information on paper, it was a tremendous effort to focus on the PC to read." — (AFP)
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