Maybank Islamic positive on new requirement


  • Banking
  • Thursday, 23 Apr 2015

The investment account will take effect on June 16 and will see Maybank Islamic investing in a diversified portfolio of assets.

KUALA LUMPUR: Maybank Islamic Bhd expects the bulk of its mudarabah deposit account holders to reclassify their accounts to mudarabah investment account (IA), in compliance with Bank Negara’s requirement.

Chief executive officer Muzaffar Hisham said the 350,000 customers of the bank’s existing mudarabah deposit products had been given until May 31 to consent to either have their accounts reclassified as IA or other syariah-compliant deposit products.

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