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SBS bus captain returns wallet with work permit, S$2,400 to grateful passenger, says: ‘It was the right thing to do'
SBS bus captain returns wallet with work permit, S$2,400 to grateful passenger, says: ‘It was the right thing to do'

Independent Singapore

time7 hours ago

  • General
  • Independent Singapore

SBS bus captain returns wallet with work permit, S$2,400 to grateful passenger, says: ‘It was the right thing to do'

FB screengrab/ SBS Transit Ltd SINGAPORE: SBS Transit told the heartwarming story of a kind and honest bus captain who did not hesitate to return the wallet a passenger had inadvertently left behind, which happened to contain the man's work permit and S$2,400. 'It was the right thing to do. I've lost my wallet before, so I know exactly how it feels,' b us captain Tan Chiy Ping said in SBS Transit's Jul 21 (Monday) post. He had been inspecting Bus Service 138 at Ang Mo Kio Interchange after his shift before calling it a day when he found the wallet. At that moment, the passenger, who was described in the post as 'visibly distressed,' entered the bus accompanied by Senior Assistant Interchange Supervisor Nithyananthan Palne. The man had just been to the Passenger Service Office, telling the staff about his missing wallet. After Mr Palne determined where the bus was via SBS Transit's Operations Control Centre, he brought the man to Bus Service 138. ' The timing couldn't have been better,' the post reads. Mr Palne said that the passenger 'thanked us over and over again' and that he was 'extremely grateful' since he had earmarked the money to be sent to his family back home. ' A simple act, but a huge impact, and that's integrity in action because we CARE. Well done Chiy Ping and Nathan!' the post added. This is by no means the first time that an SBS bus captain has shown such honest behaviour. Earlier this year, SBS also praised one of its bus captains who had returned a lost backpack containing S$14,000 . On Feb 4, the company thanked Chen Long for being an example of what the company stands for. On his part, the 42-year-old Mr Chen empathised with the backpack owner, writing that he could 'only imagine' the amount of worry the passenger felt. 'So I'm happy I could return it,' he said, adding, 'It's about doing the right thing.' Undoubtedly, one of SBS' biggest heroes is another bus captain who saved a four-year-old girl who had strayed onto a five-lane road in 2022 . Ong Shi Chuin had been at the wheel of his SBS Service 400 bus on Marina Boulevard on a Sunday evening, waiting for the traffic light to turn green. Suddenly, he spotted a young girl running barefoot along the wide road, which stretches over five lanes. She seemed to be running towards his bus. He braked, opened the door, checked for traffic, then dashed out and scooped her up and into his bus. The girl's father was frantic. As Mr Ong told CNA: 'The father and domestic helper came to my bus and pointed at the little girl and (he) said: 'That's my kid' before thanking me.' /TISG Read also: Singaporeans praise 'old timer' bus captain for helping elderly auntie with her wheelchair () => { const trigger = if ('IntersectionObserver' in window && trigger) { const observer = new IntersectionObserver((entries, observer) => { => { if ( { lazyLoader(); // You should define lazyLoader() elsewhere or inline here // Run once } }); }, { rootMargin: '800px', threshold: 0.1 }); } else { // Fallback setTimeout(lazyLoader, 3000); } });

NS&I to replace legacy core banking system with SBS
NS&I to replace legacy core banking system with SBS

Finextra

time9 hours ago

  • Business
  • Finextra

NS&I to replace legacy core banking system with SBS

NS&I (National Savings and Investments), the U.K.'s government-owned savings bank, and global financial technology company SBS today announced their work together to digitise NS&I's core banking and payments services. 0 The initiative is part of NS&I's Transformation Programme and its contract with Atos, a European digital transformation company, to modernise its banking engine. SBS's digital, cloud-native core banking platform will lay a foundation for new business efficiencies, product and service delivery, and customer experiences for NS&I. Organisations now realise the need to move faster than legacy on-premise infrastructure allows. European retail banks are accelerating their cloud investments, with spending projected to rise by 57.5% from 2025 to 30, reaching $12.6 billion according to a recent Celent report. Through its ongoing transformation programme, NS&I is proving how financial institutions can move beyond just aspirations to make fully digital, cloud-based services a reality organisation-wide. Working with Atos, IBM and Sopra Steria, NS&I is transforming and digitising its retail operations. Powering this digitisation on the back-end will be SBS's next-gen SBP Digital Core platform, which will replace NS&I's existing core system with a cloud-native infrastructure for all of its Retail banking and payments services. 'NS&I's transformation program will help to deliver the digital experiences that our customers expect, while still ensuring there is help and support for those who need it,' said Matt Smith, Chief Operating Officer at NS&I. 'Replacing our core system is a critical step in this evolution, and we look forward to continuing our work with SBS and Atos to bring it to fruition.' As one of the U.K.'s largest savings organisations, NS&I's internal infrastructure is responsible for not only upholding its 24+ million customer base, but also implementing savings rate changes and servicing the resulting interactions with customers. With on-premise and even hybrid cloud systems, this means maintaining the highest level of data storage at all times—even when it's not being used. By transitioning to SBP Digital Core, NS&I will benefit from the complete flexibility and scalability of AWS's cloud environment, enabling it to make data storage and other infrastructural adjustments as often as it needs to. Compared to legacy core systems that are not easily updated or modified, SBS's cloud and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based alternative enables it to provide regular, automatic system updates, so there are no disruptions to banks' day-to-day operations. 'Cloud and SaaS transformation in the financial industry is not a matter of when, but how,' said Eric Bierry, CEO, SBS. 'NS&I's transformation program is evidence that it is possible for banks to execute this transformation—and doing so sets them up to drive otherwise unattainable efficiencies and experiences. We're thrilled to partner with NS&I on this journey.' SBP Digital Core is a cloud-native, composable core banking solution that leverages latest technology and data to allow banks to offer personalised and relevant banking experiences to their clients while complying with regulatory requirements. It is a part of SBS's larger retail banking offerings used by more than 1,500 banks across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In addition to core banking, these offerings include deposits, payments, lending, reporting, open banking and more.

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