Tech and finance for Malaysia — financial literacy without the product pitch, and technology coverage that says whether it matters.
Bursa, unit trusts, ETFs, and what the numbers mean before you buy.
Three years after the licences were awarded, the divergence in strategy is now visible in the deposit numbers.
The licences were granted on the promise of serving the underbanked. The published figures suggest two of the five are pursuing that mandate and the rest are competing for deposits that were never underserved. [demo]
Currency commentary tends to reach for domestic explanations. The correlation with US rate expectations accounts for considerably more of the movement than anything happening in Kuala Lumpur. [demo]
Fact sheets are designed to be skimmed, and the numbers that determine your return are rarely the ones given the most space. [demo]