Asia: Malaysia to tap Hong Kong’s ESG maturity, global hub status to grow Islamic finance sector, Zafrul says

Malaysia is keen on leveraging Hong Kong’s financial hub status to grow its own sizeable footprint in the Islamic finance industry while supporting the city’s ambitions in the US$2.2 trillion sector, Kuala Lumpur’s trade tsar has said.

In Hong Kong for a two-day official visit, Minister of International Trade and Industry Tengku Zafrul Aziz said on Tuesday that cooperation in the financial sector as well as possible talent exchanges between both economies featured during his talks with the city’s officials.

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