Singapore's three major local banks have maintained sound financial fundamentals, including adequate capitalization and strong liquidity buffers, which were built over many years. Healthy economic growth, recovery in commodity prices, and supportive credit conditions will underpin the banks' performance in 2018. We are affirming the 'AA-' long-term and 'A-1+' short-term issuer credit ratings on the three Singapore banks. The outlooks on the issuer credit ratings are stable. SINGAPORE (S&P Global Ratings) May 22, 2018--S&P Global Ratings today said that it affirmed the issuer credit ratings on three Singapore-based banks: DBS Bank Ltd. Issuer Credit Rating AA-/Stable/A-1+ Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. Ltd. (OCBC) Issuer Credit Rating AA-/Stable/A-1+ United Overseas Bank Ltd. (UOB) Issuer Credit Rating AA-/Stable/A-1+ (See "Ratings List" below for more