SME News
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2022-05-18
Special Report: ‘Banks risk losing SMEs to alternative lenders’
BANKS need to step up their digital game or risk losing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to alternative lenders, according to US-based data analytics firm FICO. Its recent survey of SMEs in Asia-Pacific found that 44% of respondents in Malaysia...
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2022-05-18
Special Report: Will digital banks be a game changer?
MALAYSIA’s five digital banks (DB) are only expected to make their debut in about one to two years, but there is a palpable sense of excitement around what they might bring to a market that already has a growing number of players providing digi...
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2022-05-18
PM: From today, no AP required to import food into Malaysia
PUTRAJAYA, May 18 — The government has agreed not to impose with immediate effect, the approved permit (AP) requirement to import foodstuffs into the country, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob. He said this decision was reac...
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2022-05-18
Open food import market will boost Malaysia’s economic efficiency, say economists
KUALA LUMPUR, May 18 — The move to have free and open food import markets is set to boost the nation’s economic efficiency, experts said. Sunway University economics professor Prof Yeah Kim Leng said this would encourage import competi...
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2022-05-18
Better outlook for Malaysia's retail sector in Q2 but concerns linger, says industry body
PETALING JAYA: Malaysia's retail industry may see improved performance in the second quarter (Q2) of 2022 in light of the recent Hari Raya Aidilfitri period. But concerns over the prospects lingered due to external factors that would affect th...

