Finance & Investments - General
31 March 2021 Malaysia’s central bank said it expects the economy to return to pre-Covid levels by the middle of this year, and pledged to keep monetary policy accommodative as the country charts a recovery from the pandemic. Gross domestic product may expand 6% to...
Private Equity & Start-Up Incubation
30 June 2021 TODAY, three in every four persons in Malaysia are using the MySejahtera (MySJ) app — the all-in-one contact tracing app developed to monitor public movement and tracing since the outbreak of Covid-19 last year — making it an obvious resource to be...
Finance & Investments - Digital Banking, Digital Financial Services and Financial Technology
10 February 2021 THE Sarawak government’s interest in obtaining a digital banking licence has raised quite a few eyebrows, as it is going up against well-known corporations. Against this backdrop, little-known Vision Group is hoping to get a bite of the cherry by...
Finance & Investments - Digital Banking, Digital Financial Services and Financial Technology
28 March 2021 In February, BNM governor Datuk Nor Shamsiah Mohd Yunus divulged that about 40 parties have registered their interest to apply for a digital banking licence. IN a time where physical distance becomes a safety prerequisite, both consumers and businesses...
Finance & Investments - General
10 April 2021 Rakuten Trade head of equity sales Vincent Lau said the movement in share prices may be driven by news flows and investors may want to be part of the turnaround stories or the companies’ ventures into new businesses. PRIVATE placements are all the...