{"id":242688,"date":"2026-01-20T15:03:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T15:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/242688\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T15:03:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T15:03:17","slug":"maybank-to-invest-2-5bn-in-ai-and-other-technologies-through-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/242688\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybank to invest $2.5bn in AI and other technologies through 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/finance\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Finance<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Malaysia&#8217;s biggest lender also aims to grow digital talent base under 5-year plan<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/images.ft.com\/v3\/image\/raw\/https%3A%2F%2Fcms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com%2Fimages%2F4%2F8%2F0%2F3%2F12033084-2-eng-GB%2F30bda261df86-2019-08-02T091701Z_100309442_RC1B9913FAE0_RTRMADP_3_MALAYSIA-BUSINESS.JPG?width=780&amp;fit=cover&amp;gravity=faces&amp;dpr=2&amp;quality=medium&amp;source=nar-cms&amp;format=auto\" alt=\"20260120 Maybank\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Maybank has a dominant presence in Malaysia, where it is the biggest lender by assets, with Singapore and Indonesia\u00a0also core markets. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p>NORMAN GOH<\/p>\n<p>January 20, 2026 20:07 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">KUALA LUMPUR &#8212; Malayan Banking will invest 10 billion ringgit ($2.5 billion) in technology over the next five years as Malaysia&#8217;s largest lender by assets, known as Maybank, steps up its digital push to support regional expansion and productivity gains, its chief executive said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Finance Malaysia&#8217;s biggest lender also aims to grow digital talent base under 5-year plan Maybank has a dominant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[142453,42790,365,363,364,15472,136967,111,139,69,193,48187,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-242688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-25bn","9":"tag-42790","10":"tag-ai","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence","12":"tag-artificialintelligence","13":"tag-invest","14":"tag-maybank","15":"tag-new-zealand","16":"tag-newzealand","17":"tag-nz","18":"tag-other","19":"tag-technologies","20":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}