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JOHOR BARU: A recent Bank Negara rule requiring moneychangers to take down the personal particulars of all customers has not gone down well with the public.Many feel their particulars are being collected to be sold to scammers or to be reported to the Inland Revenue Board (LHDN).
PETALING JAYA: The recent strengthening of the ringgit against the US dollar, coupled with news of the impending rollout of a Covid-19 vaccine, has given moneychangers renewed hope.
JOHOR BARU: The closure of the Malaysia-Singapore border due to the Covid-19 pandemic has forced some moneychangers here to shutter their businesses for good.
PETALING JAYA: Already facing a sharp decline in business turnover, moneychangers and remittance businesses say they are being weighed down further by high rentals and uncompromising landlords.
JOHOR BARU: The weakening of the US dollar in the past few days has stirred up demand for the currency, but now moneychangers are caught in a dilemma.
KUALA LUMPUR: Not only is the US dollar in hot demand but so are several other currencies, as the ringgit continues to perform favourably, say moneychangers.
KUALA LUMPUR: An investment and cryptocurrency scam syndicate was smashed following a raid by graft-busters at its hub of operations in an office building along Jalan Raja Chulan here.
JOHOR BARU: A new requirement by Bank Negara has inadvertently caused confusion among the public who think their personal particulars are being collected to be misappropriated, says the Malaysian Association of Money Services Business (MAMSB).
GEORGE TOWN: The higher- valued ringgit will benefit manufacturers, travel agents and parents who are supporting their children’s overseas education, says the Small and Medium Enterprises Association Malaysia (Samenta).
GEORGE TOWN: To find out where Penangites are travelling to this school holidays, just ask the moneychangers. Of late, they want the baht.
PUTRAJAYA: Graft investigators have arrested four civil servants for accepting bribes from a tobacco, cigarette and liquor smuggling syndicate, whose activities for the past six years are believed to have caused tax revenue losses estimated at RM400mil.
PETALING JAYA: Ten civil servants have been arrested for allegedly taking over RM3mil in bribes from smugglers.
GEORGE TOWN: Without foreign tourists and with hardly anyone going abroad, moneychangers in Penang are on the verge of folding.
SEREMBAN: Ten former members of Gang Kabali were sentenced to serve 18 months in jail each by the High Court here after they pleaded guilty to an alternative charge of being members of an unlawful society.
IT has been said online recently that scammers have been using fake money services business (MSB) licences to deceive consumers, and that this is becoming a common tactic. Is this really happening?
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JOHOR government has allowed more businesses to operate under the present movement control order compared to the first one held in March last year.
SINGAPORE, Sept 22 (The Straits Times/ANN) - A number of banks in Singapore handled about US$4.5 billion (S$6.13 billion) in suspicious transactions between 2000 and 2017, with DBS Bank, CIMB Bank and Deutsche Bank among those that processed the largest sums of such funds here.
JOHOR BARU: Larkin Sentral Terminal here is slowly coming back to life, with more bus commuters and visitors using the facility now under the recovery movement control order (MCO).
PETALING JAYA: Moneychangers and remittance businesses that have been hit hard by the effects of Covid-19 are now finding they have to protect themselves from scammers who misuse their names.
