Buy IHG Points Promo: 80% Bonus

This card gives you a strong 5% cashback on selected spending categories like flights, hotels, dining, shopping (in-person & online), food deliveries, entertainment and foreign currencies (overseas & online), when spending at least S$500 and up to S$1,600 per calendar month.

But oldies beware, this card is only available to those aged 21 to 39 years old.

Qualifying transactions:
Only whitelisted Merchant Category Codes (MCCs) for each spending category qualify for the bonus earn rate. Unsure about the MCC? Check before making the payment.

However, if you’re spending in a foreign currency, it doesn’t matter what the MCC is, provided it doesn’t fall under the general exclusions stated in the t&c. What’s great is that typically-excluded spending categories like Utilities, Medical and Education qualify for 5% cashback, when paying in a foreign currency.

All other transactions earn just 0.2% cashback (uncapped).

Cardholders can reduce the foreign currency fee by about 1% by pairing this card to Amaze. IMPORTANT: Only do this for the non-foreign currency bonus categories (flights, hotels, dining etc.) made in foreign currency (not SGD).

If you’re into the Miles, check out the highly-rated Maybank XL Rewards Card.

💸 Annual fee
S$87.20
(First 2 years waived)

👶 Age requirement
21 to 39 years old

💼 Income requirement
S$30,000/year (S’porean/PR),
S$45,000/year (Malaysian),
S$60,000/year (Foreigner)

🤑 Foreign currency fee
3.25%

❓When cashback is credited
Cashback amount will be credited to the card at the end of the next calendar month.

📜 Terms & conditions

Cashback is capped at S$600 per card membership year. This annual limit gives you the opportunity to get 5% cashback on S$12,000 worth of eligible spending, making this card fantastic for large purchases!

Get just 0.3% cashback for all other spending categories.

💸 Annual fee
S$196.20
(First 2 years waived)

💼 Income requirement
S’porean/PR: S$30,000/year,
Foreigner: S$42,000/year

🤑 Foreign currency fee
3.25%

❓How cashback is credited
Cash rebates are credited in the form of SMRT$. Cardholders are required to redeem them via SMS (min. S$10).

📜 Terms & conditions

1. Overseas (incl. online in foreign currencies)
2. Local Contactless (e.g. PayWave, Google Pay, Apple Pay), SimplyGo (bus/mrt), Fuel (excl. SPC, Shell)

To receive the bonus earn rate, a minimum spending of S$1,000 per statement month is required on that particular category, with a category cap of S$1,200 in the same period. You may also enjoy the bonus earn rate on just 1 category in any statement period.

These categories offers broad coverage on spendings like shopping (in-person and online), foreign currency (in-person and online), dining, groceries, flights, hotels, food delivery and ride-hailing.

However, the huge catch is the minimum spending amount that has to be met on that particular bonus category (not general card spend like other cards). For example, if you want to earn 4 mpd on foreign currency spending, you have to spend at least S$1,000 per statement month on foreign currencies.

All other spending earn just 0.4 mpd (uncapped).

Before converting UOB UNI$ to miles for the first time, you’d need to enrol in the UOB Rewards Frequent Flyer Conversion programme. It’s best to do this early to avoid delays on your future miles conversions.

💸 Annual fee
S$218
(First year waived, request waiver every year after that)

💼 Income requirement
S$30,000/year (S’porean/PR aged 55 and below),
S$15,000/year (S’porean/PR aged 56 and above),
S$40,000/year (Foreigner)

🤑 Foreign currency fee
3.25%

⏰ Miles expiry
2 years from transaction

🫱‍🫲 Transfer partners
KrisFlyer and Asia Miles

💯 Transfer ratio
1 UNI$ = 2 miles

🧮 Transfer block
5,000 UNI$ (10,000 miles)

💲Transfer fee
S$27 per transfer

🤗 Points pooling
UNI$ from this card can be combined with those from other UOB cards and transferred out together at once.

❓How/When points are credited
Earn 1 base UNI$ per S$5 spent, plus 9 bonus UNI$ for eligible online and contactless transactions (equivalent to 4 mpd in total). Base and bonus points are credited immediately when the transaction is posted.

📜 Terms & conditions

Cardholders can receive 1.5% cashback on any currency spending; uncapped for SGD transactions, up to S$1,500 per calendar month (till 31 Dec 2026) for foreign currency transactions. No minimum spending is required.

The existence of this card also means that the opportunity cost of using Miles credit cards for foreign currency spending is now about 4.75%, as those cards come with around 3.25% in FX fees and no cashback.

Cardholders can also earn 1.5% Shopee coins when transacting with Mari Credit Card Instant Checkout on Shopee, but there are better miles and cashback cards for Shopee spending!

💸 Annual fee
No annual fee, ever

💼 Income requirement
S$30,000/year (aged 55 and below),
S$15,000/year (aged 56 and above)

🤑 Foreign transaction fee
No foreign transaction fee

❓How/When cashback is credited
Cashback amount is credited into the card immediately when the transactions post.

📜 Terms & conditions

This card does not come with any foreign transaction fees and awards the following uncapped cashback on foreign transactions (until 31 Dec 2026):

1. China & Europe: 0.5% cashback
2. Other countries: 1% cashback

Cardholders can also get up to 6.4% cashback on the following categories, when spending at least S$800 on the card in a statement month:

1. Local Online (SGD), Mobile Contactless (Google Pay, Apple Pay)
2. Selected Gym, Telco and Streaming

Although UOB advertises “up to 10% cashback”, the cashback amount is capped at S$30 for the first category (S$300 worth of spending), and S$20 for the second category (S$200 worth of spending). And unfortunately, “other” spending only earns 0.3% cashback.

In other words, after spending S$300 + S$200 on the bonus categories, cardholders will need to spend at least S$300 more to meet the minimum spend of S$800, and earn just 0.3% cashback on that amount. In this best-case scenario where you spend the exact amounts, you’d receive 6.4% cashback.

This card’s key feature is foreign currency spending (no FX fees + uncapped 0.5-1% cashback with no min. spend), and since it’s not connected to the confusing and misleading “10% cashback” benefit, you can (and probably should) safely ignore the latter.

💸 Annual fee
S$196.20
(First year waived. Subsequent years waived if you make at least 3 transactions of any amount every month)

💼 Income requirement
S$30,000/year (S’porean/PR aged 55 and below),
S$15,000/year (S’porean/PR aged 56 and above),
S$40,000/year (Foreigner)

🤑 Foreign currency fee
0%

❓When cashback is credited
Cashback amount is credited into the card at the end of the following statement month.

📜 Terms & conditions

Earn uncapped 3.2 miles per dollar on foreign currency spending, when you spend at least S$4,000 per calendar month on the card.

Cardholders can also earn uncapped 4 miles per dollar on fuel spending. Given the high amount of cashback (over 20%) that you can get with other cards, this card is best used at Sinopec fuel stations, where all members get between 20% to 23% fuel discounts, regardless of the type of card used.

On top of that cardholders can also receive 4 mpd on non-fuel purchases at the fuel station.

Cardholders also get 4 mpd at selected merchants.

All other transactions earn just 0.4 mpd.

Miles/Points earned on this card are pretty flexible, as they do not expire. Holding other Maybank cards? Having this card will also remove the expiry term of miles/points earned on all your other Maybank cards.

💸 Annual fee
S$261.60
(First year waived)

💼 Income requirement
S$80,000/year

🤑 Foreign currency fee
3.25%

⏰ Points expiry
Points earned on this card never expire

🫱‍🫲 Transfer partners
KrisFlyer, Asia Miles and Enrich

💯 Transfer ratio
2.5 points = 1 mile

🧮 Transfer block
KrisFlyer: 25,000 points (10,000 miles)
Asia Miles & Enrich: 12,500 points (5,000 miles)

💲Transfer fee
No transfer fee

🤗 Points pooling
Points from this card can be combined with those from other Maybank cards and transferred out together at once.

❓How points are credited
Earn 5 base point per S$5 spent, plus 30/35 bonus points for eligible foreign currency spending (equivalent to 2.8/3.2 mpd in total). Base and bonus points are credited immediately when the transaction is posted.

📜 Terms & conditions

✍️ Short summary

Cardholders can receive an uncapped earn rate of 2.8 miles per dollar on foreign currency transactions, when spending at least S$800 per calendar month.

On top of that, cardholders can also receive 2.8 miles per dollar on flight bookings, when spending at least S$800 per calendar month. However, this bonus earn rate is capped at S$10,000 per calendar month.

Other whitelisted transactions in SGD earn 1.2 mpd, and non-whitelisted ones just 0.24 mpd.

Miles earned on this card expire after just 1 year, and can only be transferred to 3 Frequent Flyer Programs. Because of its poor flexibility and minimum spending requirement, this card is best used for more-expensive flight bookings in Singapore Dollars and school fees in foreign currencies.

💸 Annual fee
S$196.20
(First 3 years waived)

💼 Income requirement
S$30,000/year (S’porean/PR),
S$45,000/year (Malaysian),
S$60,000/year (Foreigner)

🤑 Foreign currency fee
3.25%

⏰ Points expiry
1 year from transaction
(No expiry if you also hold the Maybank World Mastercard)

🫱‍🫲 Transfer partners
KrisFlyer, Asia Miles and Enrich

💯 Transfer ratio
2.5 points = 1 mile

🧮 Transfer blocks
KrisFlyer: 25,000 points (10,000 miles)
Asia Miles & Enrich: 12,500 points (5,000 miles)

💲Transfer fee
S$27.25 per transfer

🤗 Points pooling
Points from this card can be combined with those from other Maybank cards and transferred out together at once.

❓How points are credited
Earn 5 base point per S$5 spent, plus 30 bonus points for eligible online transactions (equivalent to 2.8 mpd in total).

📜 Terms & conditions