Concerns over higher trading costs


Rakuten Trade Sdn Bhd head of equity sales Vincent Lau

PETALING JAYA: With the Securities Commission’s (SC) frank acknowledgement that it needs to relook its revenue model after another year of deficit, cost concerns are arising for investors of the Malaysian stock market.

On Monday, the regulatory body had reported a net operating loss of RM56.5mil, while after tax deficit also widened to RM71.3mil for the year ended December 2023, on what it primarily attributed to the low daily trading volume of RM2.1bil on local indices throughout the year.

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