Malaysia

Capital Adequacy

Indonesia Promotes New Tools to Attract Foreign Islamic Banks

By Editors | 08/07/2015

Indonesian regulators are promoting new sharia-compliant financial tools and considering easing foreign ownership limits for domestic Islamic banks.

Structural Regulation

Malaysia Online Submission System to Shorten Time-to-Market for Financial Products

By Editors | 22/06/2015

Under Malaysia’s Securities Commission’s new framework wholesale products can be launched once the required information is lodged via its online submission system.

Structural Regulation

Pakistan Approves Sharia Advisory Board for Islamic Finance

By Editors | 13/06/2015

The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan has approved a four-member sharia advisory board to oversee Islamic financial products in the country.

Structural Regulation

Indonesia’s Five-Year Plan May Consolidate Islamic Banks

By Editors | 26/05/2015

Indonesia is preparing a five-year plan to develop Islamic finance by encouraging the three large state-owned Islamic banks ‎to merge, a move that could spur smaller players to link up in order to remain competitive.

Credit Risk

Malaysia Central Bank Issues New Guidelines on Restructured Loans

By Editors | 06/05/2015

Bank Negara Malaysia, the country’s central bank, is revising guidelines on restructured and rescheduled (R&R) loans in a move that could impact the asset quality and earnings of local banks.

Structural Regulation

Foreign Banks to Open Branches in Myanmar

By Editors | 10/04/2015

Two Japanese and one Singaporean bank will become the first foreign banks to operate in Myanmar in over 50 years, after receiving final regulatory approval from the central bank.

Structural Regulation

Singapore Signs Regional Pact for Cross-Border Capital Raising

By Editors | 03/03/2015

Securities market authorities from Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand have agreed to allow cross-border capital raising, aimed at deepening economic relationships among members of the southeast Asian nations.

Structural Regulation

Indonesia to Issue Regulation on Definition of Foreign Banks

By Editors | 18/02/2015

Indonesia’s Financial Services Authority, or OJK, plans to release a regulation on the definition of foreign banks in the country, in a move that puts its policies in line with those of neighbouring nations Singapore and Malaysia.

Structural Regulation

Indonesia Seeks Bilateral Financial Services Deal with China

By Editors | 21/01/2015

Indonesia’s Financial Services Authority, or OJK, is expected to sign a bilateral agreement with China’s financial authority within the first three months of the year to pave the way for Indonesian lenders to expand into China.