IndexCompany
Maybank
7 CÈ pieces since 6 July 2026: 5 deals, 1 intel item, 1 essay. Newest first.All companies →
Twenty-five years in, the foreign partner cashes out: Maybank pays Ageas US$1.3B for full control
Belgium's Ageas sold its entire 30.95 percent holding in Maybank Ageas Holdings, booking a net after-tax gain of US$540 million. Maybank now solely owns Etiqa, the world's fourth-largest takaful provider.
Chinese brands took ASEAN's EV decade in eighteen months: battery models reach 21% of car sales
Maybank reports ASEAN-6 battery EV sales grew 72% to 257% year on year in H1 2026, lifting share from 12% to 21%. Singapore reached 62%, Vietnam 35%, the Philippines 10%, Malaysia 6%.
Solar needs a lender before it needs a panel: Maybank signs Haier's ASEAN energy platform
A Heads of Agreement puts Maybank's trade, Islamic and supply-chain financing behind Haier Energy's solar and smart-energy rollout, launching in Malaysia before selected ASEAN markets.
A ringgit-to-Singapore-dollar payment still waits for the morning: Maybank joins MAS's BLOOM
Maybank Singapore enters the MAS programme on tokenised bank liabilities and regulated stablecoins, after clearing the first real-time on-chain MYR-SGD corporate trade. Its ROAR30 plan commits MYR10B ($2.45B) to technology over five years.
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.
Thailand took the data centres. Singapore filed 82 percent of the applications.
Singapore-domiciled entities filed US$33.2 billion of Thailand’s US$40.5 billion in first-half foreign applications, in the same half that only 20 megawatts of new data-centre capacity went under construction at home.
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.