by Ekrem Duman | Jul 29, 2026 | Banking & Islamic Finance, Malaysia Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRMalaysia is the world’s most developed Islamic finance hub — the largest issuer of sukuk (Islamic bonds), a pioneer of Islamic banking, and the global standard-setter for shariah-compliant finance. Its edge comes from a deliberate, decades-long strategy: strong...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 29, 2026 | Banking & Islamic Finance, Malaysia Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRPublic Bank is one of the best-run banks in the world — a byword for conservative, disciplined banking — and the creation of the late Teh Hong Piow, who founded it in 1966 and built it into a giant while personally embodying prudence. Its hallmark is...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 29, 2026 | Banking & Islamic Finance, Malaysia Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRMaybank and CIMB are Malaysia’s two banking giants and its most ambitious regional players — and they make an instructive contrast. Maybank (Malayan Banking) is the country’s largest bank, built on a vast domestic retail and commercial franchise and a pan-ASEAN...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 29, 2026 | Banking & Islamic Finance, Malaysia Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRMalaysia runs one of Asia’s most sophisticated and stable banking systems, overseen by the widely respected central bank Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM). It is distinctive for its dual banking system — conventional and Islamic banks operating side by side — and for...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 27, 2026 | Electronics & Semiconductors, Malaysia Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRMalaysia dominates the semiconductor back-end — assembly, packaging and test — but earns lower margins there than the countries that design and fabricate chips. Its 2024 National Semiconductor Strategy (NSS) aims to change that, targeting a move up the value...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 27, 2026 | Electronics & Semiconductors, Malaysia Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRIntel and Infineon illustrate why global chipmakers keep pouring investment into Malaysia. Intel started it all in 1972 with its first overseas plant in Penang and has since committed a major new investment in advanced packaging — a fast-growing, high-value...
