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- Japan’s Seven Bank, the banking arm of 7-Eleven Group, is to install its first 100 ATMs in 4 Malaysian states / full item
- Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone: …leading industrial regions like Penang, Kulim, and Klang Valley expected to benefit from increased investment and supply chain integration… / full item
Malaysia looks at Free Trade Agreement reform, including digital focus, to enhance growth: “…digitalisation was a ‘missing component’ in Malaysia’s previous FTAs…” / full item
- Malaysia’s Hong Leong Bank and China’s WeBank Tech Services, subsidiary of China’s largest digital bank, ink agreement for fintech and AI collaboration and services growth / full item
- Several Chinese-owned solar panel makers have shut down or scaled back their operations in Malaysia, industry sources say as US tariffs, and scrutiny, rise / full item
- Malaysia: YTL Digital Bank Berhad gains Ministry of Finance digital banking license, with features including an AI-powered ‘private banker’ delivering tailored insights and strategies / full item
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- Malaysia Digital Economy Corp’n launches its latest national initiative to boost SME digital adoption, with Penang SMEs leading the way / full item
- Malaysia and the UAE ink MoU to develop collaboration in AI under the Malaysia MADANI Artificial Intelligence – MMAI – Initiative / full item
- SEA’s cyber headaches: Malaysia emerged as the most targeted nation in Southeast Asia with 19,615,255 web-based threats… Indonesia was the second most affected, recording 3,204,294 threats. / full item
“Malaysia’s data center sector investment grew threefold in 2024 with $31.5BN committed in the first 10 months of 2024, up from $10.3BN over 2023…” / full item
- Malaysia’s 1337 Ventures unveils Alpha Startups Inno4Her, an 8-week femtech-focused accelerator aiming to validate ideas, find product-market fit, and scale businesses / full item
- Malaysia: Economy minister sees Malaysia producing its own chips and GPUs in 5-10 years, boosted by growing data center investments in the country / full item
- Malaysia: Yondr Group data center operator secures over $900M for hyperscale data centre campus in Johor Bahru, with backers including International Finance Corp’n / full item
- Malaysia: Maxis telco and Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman partner on 5G, looking a commercially viable opportunities in healthcare and education / full item
- Malaysia’s iPrice e-commerce aggregator raised $10M, with sights on becoming the largest online shopping platform in SE Asia / full item
- Malaysia: Communications regulator grants WeChat and TikTok licences to operate under new social media law, with other major platforms mid-application or failing to apply / full item
- An overview of the newly-proposed Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone / full item
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