Malaysia

All loan applicants under the PTPTN must open an account with the SSPN through Maybank or Bank Islam.

CIMB Niaga's president director Arwin Rasyid says Indonesia is in its “golden years” and lenders will benefit.

Malaysia's Finance Ministry along with banks have created a finance cluster to help traders and entrepresenurs in Rural Transformation Centres  expand businesses.

Bank Muamalat started its repositioining program of upgrading and reocating branches with its 57th branch in Temerloh.

China's micro-credit sector experience massive growth with encouragement from the government.

CIMB Group’s Asian expansion plan will not be significantly impacted by its purported acquisition of Asian assets of the RBS.

Bank Islam elicited encopuraging response in Sabah and Sarawak for its Al-Awfar Junior savings account for young customers.

Bank Simpanan Nasional hopes to sustain the 10 percent growth last year for its Islamic banking product account savers.

Bank Negara Malaysia clarified that only licensed banks can buy and sell of foreign currency in Malaysia.

AMMB's 9-month pre-tax profit until Dec 31, 2011 surged to RM1.598 billion from RM1.439 billion it posted for the same period last year.

Malaysian financial institutions were asked to make an impact assessment on the proposed FATCA regulations.

HSBC opened its first branch in the Sabah-Sarawak area at Inanam, expanding the total Malaysian branch network to 58 location.

HSBC is pleased with the progress of its Malaysian operations, which has been growing in the last two years.

A research group forecasts CIMB Group's non-interest income for financial year 2012 to be better-than-expected.

Malaysia and China renewed its 3 year currency swap agreement and increased its size to RM90 billion/RMB180 billion.

Eligible financial institutions operating in Malaysia might obtain Malaysian ringgit liquidity from Bank Negara by pledging Thai baht, or Thai government and central bank debt securities with it.