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Pine Labs Partners StanChart to Offer Zero-Interest BNPL Option on Credit Cards
Standard Chartered’s customers in Malaysia now have the option to avail 0% instalment options on credit cards at any offline point-of-sale powered by merchant commerce platform Pine Labs. The over 25,000 merchant outlets in Malaysia that run on Pine Labs
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Bank Negara Malaysia Leading Efforts to Regulate Buy Now Pay Later Schemes in 2022
Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) announced today that it is driving inter-agency efforts to enact the Consumer Credit Act in 2022. Datuk Nor Shamsiah Mohd Yunus, Governor of BNM said that this will strengthen regulatory arrangements for all consumer credit activities
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BNM and PayNet Joins Project Nexus for Faster, Cheaper Cross-Border Payments
Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) and Payments Network Malaysia (PayNet) will be participating in Project Nexus by collaborating with international partners on a proof-of-concept (PoC) to improve the cost and speed of cross-border payments. Project Nexus will explore the feasibility of
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iPay88 Partners Atome to Expand BNPL Acceptance to Its Merchants in Malaysia
Regional payment gateway provider iPay88 announced that it has formed a partnership with buy now, pay later (BNPL) platform Atome. This enables iPay88 to expand BNPL acceptance across its merchant touchpoints in Malaysia. The move is timely as BNPL is
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MicroLEAP to Disburse RM10 Million Islamic Financing for MDEC’s Agtech Programme
Shariah-compliant P2P (Peer-to-Peer) financing platform microLEAP has announced their collaboration with Bank Pembangunan Malaysia Berhad (BPMB) to finance Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation’s (MDEC’s) Digital Agtech Programme. The programme has been allocated with RM10 million in Shariah-compliant microfinancing for Malaysia’s agriculture
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How Public Cloud is Accelerating the Success of Fintech in Malaysia
The digital economy is expected to contribute 22.6% to the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), according to the Malaysia Digital Economy Blueprint (MyDIGITAL). In preparing Malaysia to become a technology-based economy, developments in the Malaysian fintech space have been supported
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Malaysian Crypto Startup Torum Secures Investment from KuCoin
Torum, a crypto startup who describes itself as a SocialFI Metaverse ecosystem for cryptocurrency users and projects announced today that they have secured a undisclosed sum of strategic investment from KuCoin Labs, the US$ 50 Million incubator and research of
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Bank Negara’s MyFintech Week Builds Momentum for January 2022 Kick-off
Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) announced that it is organising the second edition of MyFintech Week 2022 (MyFW 2022) virtually from 24 to 28 January 2022 and is expecting more global participation. With the theme ‘Advancing Digitalisation for Recovery, Sustainability and Inclusion,
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Tranglo Launches New Payment Corridor to Mongolia
Tranglo, a cross-border payment firm, has announced the launch of its brand new payment corridor to Mongolia. The company said in a statement that it will aim to improve the cross-border payment services in Mongolia via a single connection to
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