Daim’s love affair with banks


Banking man: The past few years have seen Daim, who has been a prominent corporate figure in the country since the early 1980s, divesting his stakes in his global chain of banks held through ICB Financial Group AG.

Tun Daim Zainuddin is a man in love with the banking business – that’s how the former Finance Minister of Malaysia has been described by some of his close associates.

But the past few years have seen Daim, who has been a prominent corporate figure in the country since the early 1980s, divesting his stakes in his global chain of banks held through ICB Financial Group AG (ICBFG).

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