In conjunction with the Golden Tiger Year, Public Bank is pleased to announce the launch of the "PB Gold Rush" Campaign which offers more than RM800,000 worth of gold to reward customers for banking with Public Bank. This campaign will run until 31 July 2010.

The "PB Gold Rush" Campaign offers more than 6 kilograms of gold at 99.9% fineness in the Bank's Gold Investment Account. A total of 118 prizes is up for grabs comprising 18 monthly prizes of 18 grams of gold per customer each month and 10 main prizes that offers the Grand Prize at 1kg worth of gold, 1st prize at 1/2kg of gold, 2nd prize at 1/3kg of gold and 3rd prize at 1/4kg of gold. The Gold Investment Account is an account which allows individual customers to invest in the purest available gold commodity in 99.9% fineness at daily prices for 1 gram in Ringgit Malaysia (RM) and the trading is carried out through a passbook.

The "PB Gold Rush" Campaign is open to all new and existing Public Bank and Public Islamic Bank customers who are individuals aged 18 years old and above.

Each new account / investment signed up for selected deposits, loans, investment, hire purchase and bancassurance products will put customers in the running to win. The chances of winning the gold prizes increase when customers sign up more products with the Bank.

To find out more about the "PB Gold Rush" Campaign, customers are invited to visit their nearest Public Bank branch, call free phone at 1-800-22-9999 during working hours or log on to Public Bank's website at www.pbebank.com.

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