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Skyro has launched its first credit product in Malaysia, offering cash loans through its mobile app. First-time borrowers…
Malaysia’s Juristech is making a push into Thailand’s non-bank lending market through a new agreement with TBN Corporation.…
Maybank Islamic and Credit Guarantee Corporation Malaysia (CGC) want to help smaller suppliers get paid faster through a…
SME Bank will administer approximately RM2.8 billion in financing and grants under Malaysia’s Budget 2027, covering 12 programmes…
Malaysia’s Ministry of Finance (MOF) has renewed the registrations of 10 credit reporting agencies until September 2027. The…
Bank Muamalat has joined other Malaysian banks in offering credit cards with annual rates capped at 14 percent.…
CapBay has surpassed RM6 billion in cumulative financing over its first decade, issuing 45,000 financing notes to more…
CTOS Digital expects a RM16 million revenue hit in 2026 as a cybersecurity incident continues to disrupt some…
Thailand-based Salary Hero has raised US$7.6 million in Series A funding as the earned wage access (EWA) provider…
Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) is adding RM5 billion to its SME relief financing facility under Budget 2027. The…
Malaysia will raise total loan facilities and financing guarantees to RM57 billion in 2027, up from RM50 billion…
Malaysia has allocated RM270 million under Budget 2027 to attract private investment through P2P financing and equity crowdfunding…
Alliance Bank, Maybank and CIMB have started offering basic credit cards with financing rates capped at 14% a…
CIMB Islamic Bank has launched the CIMB Lite-i Credit Card, a no-frills credit card aimed at Malaysians seeking…
The Federal Government collected just RM465 million, or 5%, of the RM9.273 billion in loan arrears recorded at…
A RM1,000 BNPL balance is almost 59% of Malaysia’s RM1,700 monthly minimum wage, a level that the bottom…
GXBank is expanding its lending business as it works towards its first full-year profit in 2028, The Edge…
CTOS Digital has detected unauthorised access to a system supporting its consumer business, with a limited subset of…
“It’s like a drug.” That’s how a Redditor described their descent into the Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL)…
CTOS Digital has appointed Putri Norlisa Najib, the daughter of former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak, as an…