Malaysia

Malaysia-India trade stands to improve with the recent deal among a Malaysian and two Indian banks.

The Malaysian police suggested that banks set up a central security control system to monitor every ATM to detect any undesirable activities.

Shares of Affin Holdings Bhd surged to RM3.38, on speculation that Bank of East Asia could be divesting its 23.5% stake in Affin.

Malaysia's centra lbank is luring commercial banks from the Gulf to trade more in the country’s syariah-compliant money market with an Islamic overnight funding facility.

Public Bank is redeeming the US$400million subordinated notes it had issued on June 20, 2005.

RHB Capital will make further overseas acquisitions after acquiring OSK Investment Bank.

CIMB Bank is hoping to grow its retail deposit business by 17 to 18%  this year from RM53 billion last year.

RHB Capital Bhd has signed a deal to acquire OSK Investment Bank Bhd for RM1.977 billion or US$625.9 million in cash and stocks.

Maybank Investment Bank Berhad (MIB) has obtained an investment banking licence from Hong Kong.

RHB Capital saw its pre-tax profit for the first quarter ended March 31, 2012 fell to RM580.72 million or US$184.3 million from RM610.60 million.

CIMB Bank 's first quarter revenues were driven higher from non-interest income from debt capital markets.

CIMB announced a 10.3 percent increase in first-quarter net profit mainly due to stronger regional corporate banking and treasury markets businesses.

AMMB Holdings pre-tax profit for the financial year ended March 31 surged to RM2.082 billion from the RM1.865 billion posted the previous year.

Bank Simpanan Nasional increased its net income for financial year ended Dec 31, 2011 to RM1.032 billion or US$332 million.

Hong Leong Financial Group increased its earning by a 49.2% increase in earnings to RM394.77mil in the third quarter ended March 31.

While HSBC Malaysia had been growing in the last two years and was looking at its cost base very carefully, it has yet to fully penerate the Malaysian market.