Malaysia, August 4, 2020 – Franklin Resources, Inc. (the “Company”) [NYSE:BEN], a global investment management organization with subsidiaries operating as Franklin Templeton, announced that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Legg Mason, Inc. [NYSE:LM] and its specialist investment managers.

The newly-combined organization establishes Franklin Templeton as one of the world’s largest independent, specialized global investment managers with a combined $1.4 trillion in assets under management (AUM) across one of the broadest ranges of high-quality investment teams in the industry. The combined footprint significantly deepens Franklin Templeton’s presence in key geographies and creates an expansive investment platform that is well balanced between institutional and retail client AUM.

3 August 2020, Kuala Lumpur – Despite the limitations brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, Globee, a joint venture between Everise and UBASE, experienced almost 250% revenue growth year on year to 30 May 2020. The next-generation Multilingual Customer Experience Hub is currently recruiting hundreds of staff in Malaysia to supplement their headcount, which they expect to increase to 740 by December 2020.

Malaysia’s unemployment rate hit its highest peak in a decade, at 3.9 percent in April 2020, standing at 600,000. Yet, Malaysia is an apt location for a BPO, with the market predicted to hit USD 1.4 billion by 2021. 

KUALA LUMPUR, 3 AUGUST 2020 – Kenanga Futures Sdn Bhd’s annual retail campaign is back. Coined ‘Into The Future’, the campaign aims to reward new and existing customers who trade derivatives contracts in Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Berhad (“BMD”), CME Group Products (“CME”) and Hong Kong Futures Exchange (“HKFE”), from 1 August 2020 to 31 October 2020. 

For this year, the Campaign rewards traders who execute the highest number of contracts with up to RM30,000.00 worth of prizes, which include latest iPhones and cash prizes. 

Human Resource (HR) operations have come a long way from the days of paperwork, filing documents and overflowing cabinets. While it is common these days for small businesses to rely on computer programmes such as Microsoft Excel to capture and organise HR-related data, it is far from what technology can do to digitalise HR operations, and in turn, increase productivity for businesses. 

With this in mind, Digi recently commissioned a survey titled ‘Human Resource Digitalisation in Malaysia’ with Vase.AI to find out the opinions HR employees across industries in Malaysia had in regards to digitalisation in HR.