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KUALA LUMPUR, July 14 (Bernama) -- Malaysia’s flagship financial technology (fintech) event MyFintech Week (MyFW) returns for its third edition from Aug 4-7, 2025, as the country assumes the ASEAN chairmanship, underscoring its commitment to regional cooperation in driving digital financial transformation.
KUALA LUMPUR, July 7 (Bernama) -- The processing time for Expatriate Employment Pass (EP) approvals, which used to take up to 40 days, has been reduced to just 10 working days following the integration of the Integrated Foreign Worker Management System (ePPAx) and MYFutureJobs into the Xpats Gateway, effective July 1.
KUALA LUMPUR, July 3 (Bernama) -- The growing adoption of contactless transactions, especially in Asia Pacific, has enhanced payment security with tokenisation technology extending the same level of protection to digital, card-not-present environments.
KUALA LUMPUR, June 26 (Bernama) -- Singapore-based Trident Digital Tech Holdings Ltd (Trident) has signed a definitive public-private partnership (PPP) agreement with the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to implement “DRCPass”, a nationwide digital identification system.
KUALA LUMPUR, June 25 (Bernama) -- It’s been about three months since the devastating gas pipeline explosion and fire at USJ Putra Heights. Fortunately, there were no fatalities. It shocked Malaysians. Questions are still being asked as to the compensation for damages to houses, properties, possessions and injuries sustained.
KUALA LUMPUR, June 19 (Bernama) -- Jumio, a leader in artificial intelligence (AI)-powered identity intelligence, has announced the general availability of its most advanced biometric liveness detection solution to date, Jumio Liveness Premium with advanced deepfake detection.
KUALA LUMPUR, June 18 (Bernama) -- TNG Digital Sdn Bhd, Malaysia’s largest integrated fintech company, has launched the TNG Digital Business Account, a zero-barrier digital solution aimed at supporting micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and gig workers.
KUALA LUMPUR, June 16 (Bernama) -- Malaysia has recorded RM54.02 billion in losses due to financial scams, highlighting the urgent need for more robust fraud prevention measures as financial crimes become increasingly sophisticated.
KUALA LUMPUR, June 12 (Bernama) -- Denodo, a leader in data management, has achieved the Snowflake Financial Services Competency, recognising its ability to help financial services organisations meet their unique data management, regulatory, and digital transformation needs using the Snowflake Data Cloud.
From Nor Baizura Basri
SAN FRANCISCO, June 6 (Bernama) -- Artificial intelligence (AI) evolution which is currently happening rapidly in the past three years, can shape direction and play a bigger role in enterprises’ operation and this include digital banking space in the coming years, says an industry player.
KUALA LUMPUR, June 5 (Bernama) -- The Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) has alerted the public about a new investment scam involving a cloned version of the SC’s public register of licence holders and registered persons.
KUALA LUMPUR, June 4 (Bernama) -- More than 6,300 accounts were hijacked across nine brokerage firms that enabled unauthorised trades totalling over 300 billion Japanese yen (approximately US$2 billion) in Japan between January and April this year, according to a new investigative report by Solidus Labs. (US$1=RM4.23)
