SME News
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2020-07-23
Finance: SME Bank wants to be the IJN for SMEs in Malaysia
Aria Putera Ismail, CEO and group president of Small Medium Enterprise Development Bank Malaysia Bhd (SME Bank), is excited. He sees the Covid-19 pandemic — which has upended the businesses of most of his clients and forced them to pivot or ado...
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2020-07-23
PNB launches Malaysia's first micro investing mobile app
KUALA LUMPUR: Permodalan Nasional Bhd (PNB) has launched Raiz, Malaysia’s first innovative micro investing mobile application (app), which enables Malaysians to invest from as low as RM5. Speaking at the virtual launch of the app here today,...
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2020-07-23
Covid-19 presents a reset button for Malaysia's structural issues — Mustapa
KUALA LUMPUR (July 23): Malaysia’s economy, to some degree, has been bogged down with structural issues over the years, resulting in the country lagging behind its counterparts with similar characteristics, like Singapore, said Minister in the ...
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2020-07-23
Politics and Policy: Postpone policies that will cost jobs, economist tells government
With economic indicators showing that Malaysia will experience a much sharper contraction than was anticipated at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, rushing the introduction of disruptive technologies would be a wrong move. Mammoth infrastru...
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2020-07-22
Cut taxes for jobs
PETALING JAYA: It appears that Corporate Malaysia needs more tax incentives to accelerate private investment growth that has been trending down in recent years. In 2019, private sector investments grew at the slowest pace since the global financia...

