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  • Maybank Islamic secures four awards

    Maybank Islamic secures four awards

    Maybank Islamic Berhad has clinched the Leadership Issuer of the Year Award for a financial institution by the Asset Triple A Islamic Finance Awards 2015 for its RM1.5 billion Basel III-compliant subordinated sukuk murabahah, which was the single largest deal of its kind launched by an Islamic financial institution.

    The issuance was pursuant to a subordinated sukuk murabahah programme of up to RM10 billion in nominal value established in March 2014.

    The transaction received encouraging response from investors resulting in an oversubscription rate of 2.9 times, enabling Maybank Islamic to upsize the deal from the initial target of RM1 billion. Maybank Investment Bank Berhad acted as the Lead Arranger and Manager.

    “Proceeds raised from the subordinated sukuk murabahah are used to position Maybank Islamic for stronger growth domestically and regionally,” said Maybank Islamic Chief Executive Officer Muzaffar Hisham.

    He also thanked his team for their hard work in the sukuk issuance and The Asset for recognizing this effort.

    “The strong demand we received from investors for this programme is a testimony of Maybank Investment and Maybank Islamic’s leadership in the Islamic capital market space,” he said.

    The Sukuk programme also won an award in the category of Highly Commended Best Bank Capital Sukuk.

    In 2014, Maybank Islamic Berhad cemented its leadership position as it posted robust double-digit growth rates in financing, deposits and in asset size which stood at RM146.4 billion as at December 31 2014.

    Maybank Islamic also won 4 other awards. These were the Islamic Bank of The Year for Asia Pacific and Malaysia, Best Islamic Retail Bank, Best Islamic Trade Finance Bank. It also picked up 2 awards in collaboration with Maybank Investment Bank for Best Corporate Hybrid Sukuk and Best Local Currency Sukuk.

    Maybank Investment also won the following awards – Best Reit sukuk, Best bank capital sukuk-Highly commended, Best corporate sukuk, Best quasi-sovereign sukuk, and Best Islamic Deal.

    The awards ceremony took place here recently and Maybank Islamic was represented by its Deputy CEO, Nor Shahrizan Sulaiman and its Head of Corporate and Investment Banking Arshad Ismail.

    Maybank Islamic is currently the leading Islamic Bank in ASEAN and the largest Islamic Bank in Malaysia securing a 32.7 percent domestic financing market share and accounting for 43.8 percent of Maybank Group’s total domestic loans/financings.

  • Game changer for Maybank Islamic

    Game changer for Maybank Islamic

    Malaysia’s biggest Islamic lender, Maybank Islamic Bhd, says the investment account (IA) business is set to be a game changer for the group in its effort to boost earnings growth amid the subdued banking landscape.

    The Islamic lender, which has total assets worth close to RM147bil, will focus on its new mudarabah (profit-sharing) investment fund launched in July last year in view of the Islamic Financial Services Act (IFSA) 2013.

    Describing the IA business as “the evolution of the next phase of growth”, Maybank Islamic chief executive officer Datuk Muzaffar Hisham told StarBiz that demand for the IA business has shot up significantly, as the value of its mudarabah fund rose to RM18bil in the last six months of 2015.

    “Judging from this figure, we are confident that the fund will continue to grow, underpinned by strong demand from the Muslim and non-Muslim population as well as the benefits it offers.

    “We have a customer base of about 4.5 million, of which 50% comprises non-Muslims,” explained Muzaffar.

    The value proposition offered by the mudarabah IA is that MayBank Islamic could provide steady returns of between 4% and 5% per year to its customers.

    “We are confident that this fund will be a growth driver for us, moving forward,” he added.

    He pointed out that “the bank has put in place an effective and robust risk management framework for all of its products, including the new IA, which aims to provide capital preservation, financial security and steady returns through low risk and low to medium-risk investments.”

    Under the IFSA 2013, all banks are required to distinguish IA and Islamic deposit. This means that products with mudarabah (profit sharing) or wakalah (agency) features are considered IAs and are not-principal guaranteed and hence not protected by the Malaysia Deposit Insurance Corp.

    The classification aims to provide greater legal clarity on the types of syariah financial contracts. Customers will have a choice and will be able to differentiate between products that are principal guaranteed and those which are not that provide potentially higher risk returns like mudarabah.

    Besides garnering a pole position in terms of asset size, Maybank Islamic’s market share in the country is also the biggest in terms of financing at 33.6% and deposit at 27.9%.

    At group level, Maybank Islamic’s contribution to the Maybank Group is also significant, accounting for close to 30% in revenue and 48.7% in total loans and financing.

    All these figures were for the third quarter ended Sept 30, 2015 (Q3’15).

    Muzaffar said the bank is also looking to grow its Islamic banking business in the region, adding that the business in Singapore and Indonesia each accounted for about 5% of Maybank Islamic’s revenue.

    Although Indonesia has the highest Muslim population in the world, he noted that syariah banking was relatively still at its infancy stage unlike commercial banking.

    “The Islamic banking business in Indonesia accounts for close to 9% of the total banking business there.

    “In Malaysia, it is 25%. Hence, there is plenty of room for growth and we intend to grow and take advantage of this situation,” he added.

    According to Muzaffar, the challenge for the bank in venturing overseas will be the regulatory framework, in which Maybank Islamic has to operate in, as well as the uncertainties in the Basel III rules pertaining to its implementation in Islamic finance.

    On the corporate investment business, he said it would be dependent on the country’s economic growth, adding that the bank would continue to look at opportunities in the debt and initial public offering markets.

    As for its fourth-quarter results, he said Maybank Islamic hopes to maintain its performance in the preceding quarter, although much will be dictated by the external economic environment and market conditions.

    For Q3’15, the bank recorded a 13.2% year-on-year growth in pre-tax profit to RM1.23bil from RM1.09bil. The growth in earnings was on the back of strong financing growth, which grew by 23% to RM127bil.

    Total income for the period stood at RM2.98bil as opposed to RM2.46bil. Total capital ratio and return on equity for the period stood at 15.18% and 16.14%, respectively.

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