Bursa Malaysia Berhad (“Bursa Malaysia” or the “Exchange”) would like to assure all our stakeholders that the Exchange is committed towards its obligation to ensure that our marketplace operates in a fair and orderly manner, and our services are available, reliable and resilient at all times.
The Exchange will continue to enhance our actions against COVID-19 to ensure the health and wellbeing of all our stakeholders. The situation is being proactively monitored, and our markets continue to operate as normal. We are in close contact with key industry stakeholders and will continue to follow the guidance from the Ministry of Health Malaysia (MOH) and the World Health Organisation (WHO).
Since January 2020, the Exchange has implemented several precautionary measures to manage the impact of COVID-19. These measures include:
ENHANCED VISITOR REGISTRATION PROCESS:
- Mandatory daily temperature check for all employees and visitor at all entry points
- Mandatory visitor declaration process
OFFICE STATUS:
- Hand sanitizer dispensers are made widely available
- Encouraging good hygiene practices
- Increased cleaning and disinfection frequency at all public and high-use areas
- Frequent communication and awareness on health messages and updates
- Minimise face-to-face meetings with external parties and to conduct meetings electronically as much as possible
- Minimise as much as possible participation in any events or mass gatherings. If required, employees are required to complete a self-assessment as a preventive measure to curb the further spread of COVID-19 as well as ensuring all employees are aware of the risk when participating and organising an event.
BUSINESS CONTINUITY MANAGEMENT:
The Exchange has initiated split office operations to ensure business continuity and safeguard market-critical processes. This provides us with the capability to fully operate from any one location in ensuring market connectivity globally.
In addition to safeguarding our critical operations, the Exchange will ensure adequate liquidity is in place to meet settlement obligations when due. As the operator of an important financial market infrastructure, the Exchange remains focused on having effective risk mitigation measures to uphold market integrity.
We will continue to monitor the ongoing developments on the pandemic outbreak to pro-actively manage risk in our marketplace and will introduce additional precautionary measures as appropriate.
