{"id":467697,"date":"2026-03-10T11:49:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T11:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/467697\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T11:49:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T11:49:19","slug":"malaysian-banks-face-less-forgiving-environment-in-2026-analyst-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/467697\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysian banks face &#8216;less forgiving&#8217; environment in 2026, analyst warns"},"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\">Low interest rates and global uncertainty loom after profit growth in 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/8\/1.jpeg\" alt=\"20260306 Banks Malaysia\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Major Malaysian banks reported net profit growth in 2025, but analysts say this year may be more challenging for the lenders.\u00a0(Source photos by Reuters)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">KUALA LUMPUR &#8212; Major Malaysian banks have posted growth in revenue and profit in 2025, but analysts say sustaining the momentum may be more challenging this year, as they expect the central bank&#8217;s policy rate to remain at a relatively low level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Finance Low interest rates and global uncertainty loom after profit growth in 2025 Major Malaysian banks reported net&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[47816,11465,894,84,1294,1397,14148,167600,87611,78767,56,54,55,905],"class_list":["post-467697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-47816","tag-analyst","tag-banks","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-environment","tag-face","tag-forgiving","tag-less","tag-malaysian","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-warns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}