BANK Negara announced yesterday plans to issue up to three new licences to qualified foreign players to set up Islamic banking operations locally by next year to further liberalise the Islamic banking sector.
The move will effectively bring forward the Islamic banking liberalisation timetable to 2004, from the 2007 target date outlined in the Financial Sector Masterplan.
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