Thursday, October 06, 2011

MALAYSIA - BANKING - Maybank Islamic Expects Consistent Contribution From Asset Financing

BERNAMA.COM - KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 4 (Bernama) -- Maybank Islamic Bhd expects its contribution from asset financing to the Maybank Group in the current financial year to be consistent with the previous year.

Its chief executive officer Muzaffar Hisham said almost one third of the Maybank Group's asset financing in Malaysia came from Islamic assets in the last financial year ended June 30, 2011.  (source)


"This financial year will be shorter, about six months because we're changing our financial year-end. It should be within the range. I won't expect much changes because we are looking at much shorter financial year," he told reporters on the sidelines of the Eighth Kuala Lumpur Islamic Finance Forum here Tuesday.

Currently 27 per cent of Maybank Group's total loan and advances come from Islamic banking.

On the Budget 2012 announcement due later this week, Muzaffar said Maybank Islamic was confident that there will be something for the Islamic finance industry.

"We don't want to speculate. We had given our wish list through the association. This is important year for them (the government) as well, with the challenging market currently," he said.

Source : http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsbusiness.php?id=617681  - Oct 4, 2011

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