News Centre
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Bursa Malaysia Honours Top Performing Brokers And Market Intermediaries At The Bursa Excellence Awards 2019 Ceremony
Date 30/07/2020
Bursa Malaysia Berhad (“Bursa Malaysia” or “the Exchange”) today hosted the 7th edition of the Bursa Excellence Awards 2019, to honour the top-performing brokers and market intermediaries.
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Japan's Financial Services Agency: Information On COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus)
Date 30/07/2020
* Update of the English website may take a little time. For the latest information, please refer to our Japanese website.
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Securities Commission Malaysia: Bursa Malaysia To Ensure Systems Integrity And Reliability
Date 30/07/2020
Following the trading halt on the local stock exchange on 16 July 2020, the Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) has reviewed the incident report and met with senior officials of Bursa Malaysia Berhad (Bursa Malaysia) to assess the measures being taken to address the situation.
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Corrected: Panxora Backs ClinTex To Raise $7 Million USD And Provide Faster Access To Medicines - Collaboration Lets ClinTex Take Advantage Of Panxora’s Treasury Management Offering To Strategically Manage Raised Funds
Date 30/07/2020
Today Panxora, the digital asset treasury management service, announces it will support ClinTex, a pharmaceuticals industry solutions provider, in raising and managing $7 million USD for a blockchain-powered clinical trials solution to accelerate access to medicines for patients. Panxora will provide a management framework, determining when capital raised is released into the project, which will enable ClinTex to strategically grow its business.
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Current Account Switches Fall As Social Distancing Measures Introduced, Almost 100,000 Still Switch In Q2 2020
Date 30/07/2020
- 98,192 switches took place in Q2 2020 – 182,328 fewer than in Q1 2020, the lower number was as a result of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing measures
- Awareness and satisfaction of the service remain consistently high, at 81 per cent and 92 per cent respectively
- In this quarter consumers favoured new accounts with improved customer service and online banking facilities rather than financial reasons such as better rates and lower charges
- 6.7 million switches have been completed since the launch of the Current Account Switch Service and the Switch Service Guarantee remains available to anyone who needs to change their bank account
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Founder Of Leading Pan-African Communications Consultancy APO Group Appointed To The Advisory Board Of The African Energy Chamber - Pompigne-Mognard Brings Vast Experience In Communications, Technology And Business Consultancy To Support The African Energy Chamber
Date 30/07/2020
APO Group (www.APO-opa.com), the leading pan-African communications and business consultancy, is delighted to confirm that its Founder and Chairman, Nicolas Pompigne-Mognard, has been appointed to the Advisory Board of the African Energy Chamber.
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Appital Deploys Desktop Application On OpenFin - Buy Side Firms Are Now Able To Receive Appital Liquidity Notifications Directly On Their Desktop
Date 30/07/2020
Appital, the Equity Capital Marketplace, has built and deployed their desktop application on OpenFin, the operating system (OS) of finance.
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Shenzhen Stock Exchange Supports Simultaneous Issuance Of CDB Green Financial Bonds On Various Markets To Explore Product Interconnectivity In Bond Markets
Date 30/07/2020
On July 29, China Development Bank (“CDB”) issued the first “Bond Connect” green financial bonds under the theme of “Addressing Climate Change”, totaling CNY10 billion, to global investors on various markets simultaneously, including CNY1 billion issues by tender on the SZSE bond market. It is an important measure adopted by SZSE, in cooperation with CDB, to enrich the green financial product system and explore product interconnectivity on different bond markets.
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Early-Stage Funding Rounds Dominated APAC VC Funding Landscape In Q2 2020, Finds GlobalData
Date 30/07/2020
Early stage funding rounds (comprising Seed and Series A funding) dominated the venture capital (VC) funding landscape during the second quarter (Q2) of 2020 in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.
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Hashstacs Co-Develops Blockchain Project With Bursa Malaysia For Its Bonds Marketplace
Date 30/07/2020
Singapore's Fintech technology provider, Hashstacs Pte Ltd ("STACS"), today announced that it has partnered with Bursa Malaysia Berhad ("Bursa Malaysia") on a Blockchain Proof-of-Concept ("POC") project dubbed "Project Harbour" for its Bonds marketplace.
