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Sunway’s RM11 Billion IJM Takeover Bid Collapses In Malaysia

Bumiputera equity policy shaped the political environment around this deal from the outset, complicating an already contested valuation.

Malaysia Airlines Expands East Asia Network With New China Routes And Return To Fukuoka

With 24 new aircraft already delivered, Malaysia Airlines' route expansion is grounded in a concrete fleet growth plan targeting 160 aircraft by 2035.

MoMo Explores New Investment Round At Valuation Above USD2 Billion As Vietnam’s Digital Payments Market Expands

An IPO is off the near-term agenda for MoMo. Private capital is the preferred path as Vietnam's digital economy accelerates toward 2030.

The Loan Onboarding Problem That Has Slowed Corporate Banking For Decades

Delayed revenue recognition and operational risk are direct costs of manual loan onboarding. Finastra and Marketnode built an automated alternative inside existing infrastructure.

Malaysia’s Petronas Secures Hormuz Transit For Crude Tanker Through Iranian Diplomatic Channel

Ship traffic through Hormuz remains 90 percent below pre-war levels. Malaysia's bilateral carve-out allowed its first crude cargo through on April 6.

Indonesia’s B50 Biodiesel Program And The Deforestation Risk Hiding In The Energy Independence Agenda

Indonesia imports approximately 4.9 million kiloliters of diesel annually. B50 is designed to replace that volume with domestically produced palm-based biofuel.

Six Task Forces, One Goal: Malaysia’s Institutional Approach To Preparing For Nuclear Energy

Vietnam has a reactor agreement, Singapore an SMR MoU, Indonesia units in its RUPTL — Malaysia's April statement joins the same regional conversation.

Bank Negara Malaysia’s Cybersecurity Enforcement Trend Puts Financial Institutions On Notice

BNM's cybersecurity enforcement actions signal that compliance gaps in incident response carry direct financial and reputational consequences for Malaysian financial institutions.

Thailand’s Three Virtual Bank Consortia Advance Toward Second-Half 2026 Launch

BankX Bank's registered capital will scale from THB 10,000 to THB 5 billion before the licence application, marking the formal start of Thailand's digital bank build.

Danantara Anchors USD10.2 Billion Korea Deal With Lotte And POSCO In Focus

The Prabowo-Lee summit in Seoul formalized a Special Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, anchored by ten MoUs and a Danantara-Korea Eximbank financing agreement.