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Hong Leong Investment Bank (HLIB) has named Datuk Muhamad Umar Swift as its next group Managing Director and CEO. Umar Swift, a former CEO of Bursa Malaysia, will take over on 1 January 2027 from…
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View MoreRetail banking in Asia Pacific is undergoing a structural reset. The forces reshaping the industry are changing how growth is won, how risk is managed, and…
Read MoreLuno, a digital asset exchange in Malaysia approved by the Securities Commission, announced that the company is now…
Payments platform Fave has been acquired today by Pine Labs, an Asian commerce platforms in a deal valued…
The Securities Commission Malaysia today issued a statement today saying that they have reprimanded Remitano for operating a…
Six months into its launch, Maybank SME Digital Financing has approved RM1 billion of financing, serving more than…
Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) via its enterprise and public sector business solutions arm, TM ONE, today inked a…
PayNet, the national payments network and shared central infrastructure for Malaysia’s financial markets, has appointed FassPay, a subsidiary…
RinggitPlus, a financial marketplace owned by Jirnexu, has launched RinggitPlus Advance, a new one-to-one financial digital financial planning…
Axiata Group and Telenor Asia today confirmed in their press conference that they have revived merger plans of…
Versa, Malaysia’s latest digital cash management platform, today announced that it has achieved over RM10million in deposits in…
Boost issued a press statement saying that it will be prioritising micro-enterprises and SMEs this upcoming Ramadan by…
Central bank-backed digital currencies (CBDCs) are rapidly on the rise, with 86% of central banks around the world…
Pine Labs, an Asian merchant commerce platform backed by Mastercard, announced the launch of its Buy Now Pay…
Ripple, announced that it has agreed to acquire 40% of cross-border payments specialist Tranglo. This partnership will allow…
In Malaysia, incumbents are gearing up for the entrance of the country’s first digital banks, accelerating digital transformation,…
Touch ‘n Go Group (TNG) formally announced today the launch of GO+, a financially inclusive investment product for…
Homegrown e-wallet Boost announced that it is now part of the PayNet Real Time Retail Payment Platform (RPP)…
Aspirasi, a digital micro-financing and micro-insurance service provider under Axiata Digital, is now offering a flexible and fully-digital…
Zurich Malaysia (Zurich) and Singapore-based fintech BetterTradeOff, today launched ‘Up | MyZurichLife’, a financial planning solution exclusively for…
Against the backdrop of the cacophony of noise and emerging trends in Asia, it’s difficult even for the…
Banking has undergone a major shift in recent years thanks to the advent and advancement of digital banking…
Mambu, the newly-minted fintech unicorn, has announced the launch of the Sharia-compliant version of its SaaS banking platform.…
Payments firm GHL announced today they will be piloting a Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) service for its…
FWD Insurance announced the launch of the FWD Start-Up Studio to support insurtech and takafultech startups in Malaysia,…















