SC Malaysia initiates aFINity Innovation Lab for alternative trading system LeapRate

December 21, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

SC Malaysia initiates aFINity Innovation Lab for alternative trading system

The Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) today announced that parties interested in establishing and operating an Alternative Trading System (ATS) in Malaysia can apply to participate in regulatory sandbox sessions under the SC’s FinTech Innovation Lab (aFINity - alliance of FinTech community). This follows the Budget 2018 announcement on the introduction of ATS in the Malaysian…

December 04, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Securities Commission Malaysia fines five Directors of Trive Property Group

Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) announced that it has today reprimanded and fined five directors of TRIVE Property Group Bhd (Trive) for knowingly furnishing false or misleading statements in the 2014 audited financial statements of the company to SC and Bursa Malaysia. SC’s sanctions arose as a result of its findings that Trive had failed to…

November 27, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Court declares in favour of Securities Commission Malaysia in Axis insider trading case

Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) informed that it has obtained from the High Court a judgment against three defendants for insider trading involving the shares of Axis Incorporation Bhd (Axis). Koh Tee Jin, a former director of Axis, was declared to have breached section 188 (3)(a) of the Capital Markets and Services Act 2007 (CMSA) when…

September 29, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Former Director of Magnum Corporation Bhd charged for insider trading

The High Court yesterday declared that Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) had successfully proven an insider trading case against Lim Chiew, a former independent director of Magnum Corporation Bhd. In the suit which was filed in 2005, SC claimed that Lim Chiew had breached section 89E (2) of the Securities Industry Act 1983 when he acquired…

September 14, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

SFC and Securities Commission Malaysia sign Fintech cooperation agreement

The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) today entered into an agreement with the Securities Commission Malaysia to establish a framework for cooperation on financial technology (Fintech). The SFC and Securities Commission Malaysia agreed to cooperate on information sharing and referrals of innovative firms seeking to enter one another’s markets. Cooperation between regulatory counterparts…

September 07, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Securities Commission Malaysia warns on Initial Coin Offerings

The Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) has made a statement in which cautions investors, as the commission has noted the emergence of digital token based fundraising activities / investment schemes in Malaysia and elsewhere, which may be referred to as “initial coin offerings”, “initial token offerings”, “token pre-sale”, “token crowd-sale” (collectively referred to as ICO schemes…

Malaysian SC announces relief measures for capital market licensed entities

July 14, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Malaysia pushes the sustainable and responsible investing (SRI) development

Malaysia, widely acknowledged as being in the forefront of Islamic finance, announced that is taking the lead in promoting the sustainable and responsible investing (SRI) proposition based on its shared values with Islamic finance. As part of initiatives to generate greater awareness on responsible investing, Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) and Bursa Malaysia co-hosted the Responsible…

May 29, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Securities Commission Malaysia charges former substantial shareholder of Maxbiz for insider trading

Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) today announced that has charged a former substantial shareholder of Maxbiz Corporation Bhd, Datuk Andrew Leong Wye Keong, with four counts of insider trading. Andrew Leong was charged under section 188(2)(a) of the Capital Markets and Services Act 2007 (CMSA) for disposing 2,131,400 units of Maxbiz shares in his son’s account…

May 23, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Former Directors fined and jailed for misleading financial disclosures to SC Malaysia

The Court of Appeal today allowed Securities Commission Malaysia (SC)’s appeal to enhance sentences meted out against former executive directors of Welli Multi Corporation Bhd (Welli Multi), Ang Sun Beng and Ang Soon An, for furnishing misleading financial information to SC in 2005. The court imposed a sentence of six months jail and a fine…

May 22, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Securities Commission Malaysia charges former Managing Director of Maxbiz for insider trading

Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) today charged Dato’ Vincent Leong Jee Wai for insider trading of shares of Maxbiz Corporation Berhad (Maxbiz). Dato’ Vincent Leong, 58, was charged at the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court this morning with two counts of communicating material non-public information between November 2010 and January 2011 to one Leong Wye Keong when…

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