KUALA LUMPUR, March 26 (Bernama) -- RAM Rating Services Bhd (RAM Ratings) expects Islamic financing to expand at a steady eight per cent growth rate in 2025 despite global challenges and uncertainties.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 25 (Bernama) -- Public Bank and Public Islamic Bank are extending repayment relief to their loan and financing customers affected by the recent floods in Johor.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 25 (Bernama) -- CarbonPura has introduced the US$25 billion Ghana Green Guard, a transformative series of privately funded environmental protection and climate-smart projects tailored to Ghana’s unique landscape. (US$1=RM4.43)
KUALA LUMPUR, March 24 (Bernama) -- More than 14,000 small and medium enterprises (SMEs), microenterprises, start-ups, and the low-income group grew in line with higher approval rates under development financial institutions (DFI) financing in 2024, said Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) today.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 24 (Bernama) – Electronic payment (e-payment) recorded high growth last year, with the total value of selected retail e-payment transactions increasing by 17 per cent to reach RM698.1 billion, according to Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM).
KUALA LUMPUR, March 24 (Bernama) -- Stress tests conducted by Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) affirmed that banks’ capital buffers are sufficient to absorb a potential increase in credit losses from the business sector under adverse stress scenarios.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 24 (Bernama) -- Banking system deposits grew at a slower pace of three per cent in the second half of 2024 (2H 2024), driven by the slower growth of deposits from resident businesses, partly due to higher costs and debt repayment.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 24 (Bernama) -- Solvency and liquidity stress test exercises have re-affirmed that banks in the country remain highly resilient even in the face of severe macroeconomic, financial, and liquidity shocks.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 24 (Bernama) -- Buy now, Pay Later (BNPL) activity has grown rapidly, although the total outstanding BNPL debt remained a small proportion of overall household debt at RM2.8 billion or 0.2 per cent as of December 2024.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 24 (Bernama) -- Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) expects the country’s current account to remain resilient over the medium term, supported by robust manufacturing exports.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 24 (Bernama) -- The adoption of the artificial intelligence (AI) model DeepSeek among mainland China’s insurance companies could help small to medium-sized insurers enhance their operational efficiency, according to global credit rating agency AM Best.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 24 (Bernama) -- Alliance Bank Malaysia Bhd (ABMB) is on the right track to scale up operations following its proposal to undertake a rights issue to raise RM600 million to boost its diminishing common equity tier-1 (CET-1) of 12.4 per cent by +1.1 percentage points (ppts), CIMB Securities Sdn Bhd.
