SME News
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2022-05-17
OPR hike aims to ensure sustainable growth — SME Bank
KUALA LUMPUR (May 17): Bank Negara Malaysia’s (BNM) move to raise the Overnight Policy Rate (OPR) to 2.0% aims to ensure that the monetary policy remains accommodative to support sustainable economic growth, while enabl...
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2022-05-17
Malaysia raises concerns over continual changes on sustainable palm oil
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia is worried that benchmark standards keep on changing and are difficult to comply with, especially for smallholders, as it continues to address sustainability aspects and corrects the negative perception and allegation towards i...
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2022-05-16
More competition
PETALING JAYA: With fresh digital banking licences dished out in Malaysia recently, there will surely be disruption within the industry, leading to a fight for market share. Most bankers are aware of this although much has been said about digital ...
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2022-05-16
Durian supply down by nearly 60%, says group
PETALING JAYA: The durian supply has gone down by nearly 60% because of factors like bad weather and pests while prices are set to increase by 10% this year, says a durian farmers’ group. Save Musang King Alliance (Samka) president Wilson Ch...
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2022-05-16
Malaysia to keep growing amid potential headwinds from slowdown in major economies
KUALA LUMPUR: As its economy grew faster than consensus projection in the first quarter, analysts now expect Malaysia's gross domestic product to expand more than 5.0 per cent this year. Even as the strength in the Q1 data was comforting, they...