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Chong: It is in our interest to lend but we need to grow responsibly.

WHEN Datuk John Chong Eng Chuan was just starting out in the finance industry, his team won an award.The media found out and wanted to learn more about that award, so Chong and his team arranged for a meeting, “staging” a background at his office for photographers and TV crew to better re-enact the award-winning moment.

“We staged a trading background, made it look as if we were very busy, with telephones everywhere, and I was on one too, ” he recalls.

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