Malaysia

Despite its high exposure to trade, Malaysia continued to enjoy a relatively strong rate of expansion in 2012. Soft global demand for manufacturing exports and volatile palm oil prices failed to dent domestic consumer confidence. The local corporate sector and households powered ahead with spending, while government investment plans were supported...

Bursa Malaysia and the FTSE Group have been working together since 2006 to develop, manage and maintain real-time indices covering the local equity markets, both for the Bursa main board and the ACE secondary board. In 2009, Malaysia's benchmark stock index, which had been up to that point the Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI), became the FTSE...

As natural gas consumption growth in Asia continues to outstrip average global demand by a wide margin, Malaysia is making a strong play to not only secure its own domestic supply of the gas but to establish itself as a regional transportation and trading centre.

These are times of substantive change in Malaysia’s insurance sector. With financial market liberalisation, alongside more stringent capital and regulatory requirements, consolidation is occurring parallel to greater involvement by many international players. With the market still showing plenty of upside potential as well, given relatively low...

Along with its neighbours, Malaysia has remained a beacon of economic optimism, maintaining a positive trajectory as Western economies have faltered in recent years. While the country’s GDP growth has been sustained over the last few decades, the engines of growth continue to be expanded, improved and reinvented to adapt to a changing global...

A major reason for the success of the Islamic finance services (IFS) sector in Malaysia has been the sustained support it has been receiving from the government and the financial sector authorities. This support has included the creation of a comprehensive legal framework for the sector, the provision of education and training, and a raft of...