STANDARD Chartered plc (StanChart) will concentrate on growing organically in Malaysia as current local banking legislation prevents foreign banks from taking a controlling stake in the target bank should they want to expand through acquisition.
“We are unlikely to settle for a minority stake,” Bryan Sanderson, chairman of the Group, said yesterday when asked on the group's plans in Malaysia at a press conference attended by reporters from several Asian countries and South Africa.
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