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Bursa Malaysia Launches World’s First Shariah-Compliant Carbon Exchange
Bursa Malaysia announced the launch of the Bursa Carbon Exchange (BCX), touted to be the world’s first Shariah-compliant carbon exchange in the world. The exchange will enable companies to trade voluntary carbon credits from climate-friendly projects and solutions, with the aim
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Bursa Malaysia Rolls Out Interactive Fund Information Platform for Retail Investors
Bursa Malaysia has launched an interactive fund information platform to provide the investors a comprehensive information on unit trusts and wholesale funds. The Bursa Fund Platform is open to and free-to-access for members of the public. It offers quick and
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Bursa Partners CIMB to Boost ESG Adoption Among Malaysian Listed Companies
Bursa Malaysia and CIMB Group has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to accelerate the adoption of environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices among Malaysian Public Listed Companies (PLCs) through the #financing4ESG initiative. Through this MoU, CIMB will become
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Bank Islam Takes Over BIMB’s Listing on Bursa Malaysia
Bank Islam Malaysia has become the first full-fledged Islamic financial institution to be listed in the main market of Bursa Malaysia today, taking over the listing status from BIMB Holdings Berhad (BHB). The listing marks the completion of the BHB
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Bursa Malaysia Eyes Opportunities to Collaborate With Fintech Companies
Malaysian stock exchange Bursa Malaysia is seeking to collaborate with fintech companies or other strategic partners in a bid to strengthen its value proposition, increase its agility as well as efficiency. Bursa Malaysia said that such efforts would help the
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Bursa Malaysia and Hashstacs Complete Pilot for Blockchain Bond Platform
Blockchain development company Hashstacs (STACS), announced that it has completed the blockchain proof-of-concept (POC) with Malaysia’s national stock exchange, Bursa Malaysia, to facilitate the growth of the bond marketplace at the Labuan Financial Exchange (LFX). The POC was executed and
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Bursa Malaysia Trialing Blockchain Powered Bonds Marketplace with Singapore’s Hashtacs
Bursa Malaysia is said to be partnering with Hashstacs to co-develop a blockchain Proof-of-Concept project dubbed “Project Harbour” for its bonds marketplace. Project Harbour is centred around the usage of Distributed Ledger Technology (” DLT”) as a register in facilitating
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Securities Commission and Bursa Malaysia Sets up a Regulatory Subsidiary
The Securities Commission Malaysia (“SC”) and Bursa Malaysia Berhad (“Bursa Malaysia”) announced Tuesday that Bursa Malaysia will establish a wholly-owned subsidiary (“Bursa RegSub”) to assume the regulatory functions currently undertaken by Bursa Malaysia. SC’s chairman, Datuk Syed Zaid Albar shared
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Bursa Just Launched a Mobile App for Investors That Would Like to Manage Their Stocks Around The Clock
Bursa Malaysia, the country’s national stock exchange incorporated in 1976, just launched Bursa Anywhere, a mobile app for individual investors to access a variety of central depository services (CDS) on the fly. Bursa claims that theirs is one of the
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Bursa Malaysia Taps Hong Kong Based Company to Build Blockchain Proof-of-Concept
Bursa Malaysia is right now utilising blockchain in a proof of concept geared towards greater transparency and smoother operations in the securities borrowing and lending (SBL) market. The project aims to ramp up efficiency, speed and capacity in securities in
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