News Malaysia Finance: Airwallex Secures Key Regulatory Approvals for Full Commercial Launch in Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, April 01, 2026--Airwallex, a leading global financial and payments platform, today announced that it has received approval from Bank Negara Malaysia for its e-money issuing and Class A licences. With these licences, Airwallex is able to provide a complete suite of payment services in Malaysia. This empowers companies to expand and thrive across borders, while enabling businesses globally to operate more seamlessly in this dynamic economic market.
News Malaysia Finance: Genting Malaysia Settles Dispute With Fox, Disney
Genting Malaysia on Thursday (25 July) announced that it has resolved its dispute with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Fox Entertainment Group Llc, Twenty First Century Fox Inc, Foxnext Llc ...
News Malaysia Finance: Meeting Malaysia's 2020 deficit target 'challenging': Finance Min
The US-China trade war is hurting Malaysia's growth, making it hard to meet deficit target, says Lim Guan Eng. Malaysia, Southeast Asia's third-largest economy, is dealing with a debt pile of more ...
News Malaysia Finance: Malaysia might miss its 2020 fiscal deficit target thanks to US-China trade war, says finance minister
, the country’s finance minister said on Monday. Southeast Asia’s third-largest economy is dealing with a debt pile of more than 1 trillion ringgit ($243.13 billion), which the administration of Prime ...
News Malaysia Finance: Malaysia’s seizure of Chinese pipeline firm’s assets not a slight on Beijing, says finance minister Lim Guan Eng
Lim told parliament the sequestration of US$240 million from a bank account of China Petroleum Pipeline Engineering was ‘company specific’ Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad confirmed the seizure on ...
News Malaysia Finance: Malaysia’s strong credit ratings due to reforms, says LGE
KUALA LUMPUR: The ongoing institutional reforms, greater accountability, fiscal transparency and political stability have led to Malaysia’s strong credit ratings, says Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng.In a statement yesterday, Lim said the Finance Ministry welcomed Fitch Ratings’ confirmation of Malaysia’s sovereign credit ratings at A- with a stable outlook.
News Malaysia Finance: Malaysia seizes $240 mln from Chinese state firm's bank account -paper
KUALA LUMPUR, July 14- Malaysia has seized more than 1 billion ringgit from a bank account of state-owned China Petroleum Pipeline Engineering Ltd, the Straits Times newspaper said on Saturday. The seizure comes nearly a year after Malaysia suspended two pipeline projects, valued at $2.3 billion, on which CPP was the lead contractor. In 2016, CPP won a contract...
News Malaysia Finance: Online cheats: Malaysia’s worrying trend of ‘fake’ degrees
An Al Jazeera documentary on fictitious university online portals uncovered the shocking news that across the globe, thousands of people are employed in safety-critical jobs while holding bogus qualifications. And one Kuala Lumpur-based private investigation firm Akhbar & Associates estimates that one in 20 recruitments in Malaysia are based on bogus qualifications. Julian Hall reports.
News Malaysia Finance: OCBC Bank consortium to fund 30MW PV project in Malaysia
A consortium led by OCBC Bank is financing a 30MW PV project located in Bukit Keteri, Malaysia. OCBC Bank will serve as the ... will use the proceeds from this funding to help finance the 30MW ...
News Malaysia Finance: Finance Ministry: Malaysia’s inclusion in US Treasury list highlights country’s economic strength
KUALA LUMPUR, May 30 ― Malaysia’s inclusion in United States Department of the Treasury Monitoring List along with other major trading economies only highlights its global economic strength, the ...
News Malaysia Finance: Malaysia's international reserves edge lower to $103.4 bln as of April 30
The reserves were sufficient to finance 7.4 months of retained imports, and 1 time the short-term external debt, said Bank Negara Malaysia. (Reporting by Emily Chow; Editing by Shreejay Sinha)
News Malaysia Finance: Rating agencies confident Malaysia will meet fiscal targets — MoF
KUALA LUMPUR: International rating agencies S&P, Fitch and Moody's are convinced that Malaysia will achieve its fiscal targets, particularly the 3.4% fiscal deficit to gross domestic product (GDP) ...
News Malaysia Finance: Former Goldman Sachs Banker Pleads Not Guilty in Malaysia Fraud Case
The banker, Roger Ng, had been in custody in Malaysia since he was charged with helping the ... which used Goldman’s investment banking services to issue $6 billion in bonds meant to finance ...
