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One facility, ten thousand borrowers: Malaysia's state lender backs Funding Societies' SME book
Malaysia Debt Ventures, a finance-ministry subsidiary, signed a multi-year working-capital facility with the platform, which has disbursed MYR7 billion to more than 10,000 Malaysian businesses.
Positive-sum angle: Sovereign money routed through a platform underwrites thousands of credit decisions at once. The state buys distribution it would otherwise spend a decade building branch by branch.