In a landmark event for both the Malaysia and Bahrain financial sectors, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between Bursa Malaysia Berhad and Bahrain Financial Exchange (BFX). Amongst the items targeted with this agreement is the increase of awareness in terms of investment opportunities in the Islamic market today. (more…)
Archive for April, 2010
Bursa Malaysia Links Up with its Bahrain counterpart
Saturday, April 17th, 2010Enhancing Retail Participation on Bursa Malaysia
Friday, April 16th, 2010The recently concluded “Rethink Retail” forum that was conducted by Bursa Malaysia successfully brought together some of the nation’s key financial players, and highlighted several important statistics that need to be rectified in order to make the younger generation consider the stock market industry more seriously in the future.
Bursa Malaysia’s immediate attention lies in re-creating its image to cater for the future of the Malaysian stock market, which means for those below 25 years old (which encompasses 67% of the Malaysian population). Statistics clearly show that if the youth market is to be successfully tapped, the only way of doing it is through the Internet. (more…)