News about Bank Negara

PETALING JAYA (June 19): Malaysia’s Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng wants banks to provide greater access to financing to first-time homebuyers, as well as to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) considering the fact that the country’s household debt as a ratio to gross domestic product (GDP) has fallen to 83% in 2018 from 83.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 18): Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) announced today Aznan Abdul Aziz's (pictured) appointment as assistant governor effective July 1, 2019.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 11): Bank Negara Malaysia's (BNM) international reserves slipped RM500 million or 0.

  KUALA LUMPUR (May 29): Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) said Malaysia supports free and fair trade, and does not practise unfair currency practices.

PETALING JAYA (May 7): The reduction of the overnight policy rate (OPR) by Bank Negara Malayisa (BNM) today is a good move to stimulate the economy and the property market, said real estate consultant and CEO of Zerin Properties Previndran Singhe.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 7): Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) has reduced its key interest rate to 3%, marking the first time it has revised the rate in more than a year.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 16): There were at least two teams involved in the Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) raid on the AmBank branch along Jalan Raja Chulan on July 6, 2015 which acquired information on bank accounts related to former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and SRC International Sdn Bhd.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 29): The Malaysian Employers Federation (MEF) said today that its survey data, on which Bank Negara Malaysia had used in an analysis and concluded wages for fresh graduates across all qualification categories have fallen between 2010-2018, actually showed that the reverse is true.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 29): Cheap available foreign labour is the big stumbling block that has hindered the growth of the country’s productivity and wages.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 28): Bank Negara Malaysia’s (BNM) governor Datuk Nor Shamsiah Mohd Yunus (pictured) brushed aside growing concern about deflation arising from the drop in Consumer Price Index for two consecutive months.