Financio, a wholly owned entity within Asian Business Software Solutions Sdn Bhd (ABSS) today signed a strategic agreement with Microsoft to empower micro SMEs in Malaysia and accelerate their digital transformation journey. 

Designed for start-ups, small business owners and non-accountants, this unique platform will be the first freemium accounting application in Malaysia that has adopted Microsoft cloud services to provide end-to-end, scalable solutions for micro SMEs in the digital economy. 

MAN Truck and Bus (M) Sdn Bhd (MAN) announced it has started providing mobile service workshops to customers - where MAN brings the workshop to the customer’s doorsteps instead of requiring customers to bring their vehicles to the standard workshops for service and maintenance.

Thayalan Subramaniam, Head of After Sales, MAN Truck and Bus (M) Sdn Bhd said, “This is an ideal option for some of our customers who do not have easy access to regular service workshops, due to their location or other factors. By having our mobile workshops come to them, they can save travel time and cost and their drivers can be assigned to other vehicles while the service is being done at their facility, thereby improving uptime and overall productivity.”

Malaysia and ASEAN’s largest Islamic bank in terms of total assets, Maybank Islamic Berhad has emerged as the Best Global Islamic Financial Institution award, its first ever, at the Global Finance Awards 2017 ceremony, held in Washington last Saturday. 

It was also recognised as the Best Global Sukuk Bank and Best Global Provider of Shariah-Compliant Short-Term Investments – the Bank’s second consecutive wins in both categories. 

OCBC Bank (Malaysia) Berhad CEO Datuk Ong Eng Bin led the way as a hundred of his staff planted 80 hardwood and fruit-bearing trees at Field 43 of the Forest Research Institute of Malaysia (FRIM) recently.

The go-green initiative, spearheaded by a team of OCBC Young Bankers, saw saplings of trees such as cengal, merbau, rambai and jambu bol planted at the designated spots in the world-renowned man-made forest reserve.