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Fed hike odds went 35 to 57 percent in an afternoon. Your loan still floats.
Premeditatio malorum, applied to a floating-rate facility and a Fed chairman who will not tell you what he is going to do.
The bancassurance engine was only 69% owned: Maybank pays $1.18B for the rest of Etiqa
Maybank agreed to buy Ageas' remaining 30.95% of Maybank Ageas Holdings, which owns Etiqa's Malaysian and Singaporean insurance and takaful businesses, for RM4.83 billion. Bank Negara Malaysia must approve.
A breach turned AI security into shared plumbing: NVIDIA, Microsoft and IBM open-source their guardrails
The Open Secure AI Alliance launched with more than 60 partners. NVIDIA put its NOOA agent-safety framework on GitHub, Hugging Face offered Safetensors to the PyTorch Foundation, and Microsoft contributed MDASH, its agentic bug-hunting harness.
The Fed held rates but signalled a possible hike, and the firmer dollar is the part that lands on Southeast Asian margins
Nine of eighteen Fed officials now pencil in a 2026 hike and the median dot has climbed to 3.8 percent; for any Southeast Asian business with dollar costs or dollar debt, the firmer dollar arrives long before the rate does.
B2B payments platform XTransfer opens a Kuala Lumpur office as its Southeast Asia hub
Holding conditional Bank Negara Malaysia approval for payment licences since February, the cross-border trade-payment platform will route SME import-export flows through Kuala Lumpur, with Maybank, CIMB and OCBC present at the launch.