SME News
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2025-03-24
Bank Negara enhances access to financing, DFI loans grow to RM183.3bil
KUALA LUMPUR: Bank Negara Malaysia says that credit conditions continue to support businesses' financing needs, with business financing growing by 5.1 per cent in 2024 compared to 3.7 per cent in 2023. Of this, outstanding SME financing growth...
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2025-03-24
Banks ' Capital Buffers Strong Enough To Absorb Business Credit Losses – BNM
KUALA LUMPUR, March 24 (Bernama) -- Stress tests conducted by Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) affirmed that banks’ capital buffers are sufficient to absorb a potential increase in credit losses from the business sector under adverse stress scenarios...
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2025-03-24
Malaysia’s P2P financing sector vigorous and thriving
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s peer-to-peer (P2P) financing sector has expanded steadily since 2016 and is likely to continue its strong growth trajectory, driven by supportive government policies and an increasingly robust investor ecosystem. ...
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2025-03-24
Development Financial Institutions ' Higher Approval Boosts Over 14,000 Businesses
KUALA LUMPUR, March 24 (Bernama) -- More than 14,000 small and medium enterprises (SMEs), microenterprises, start-ups, and the low-income group grew in line with higher approval rates under development financial institutions (DFI) financing in 2024, ...
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2025-03-24
Domestic Demand To Buffer Malaysia ' s Economy Against External Uncertainties -- BNM Governor
KUALA LUMPUR, March 24 (Bernama) -- Strong domestic demand will continue to buffer Malaysia's economy against external uncertainties, including possible repercussions from the imposition of US tariffs. “We are in a position of strength. ...