BIGPAY Malaysia Sdn Bhd, the financial technology arm of low-cost airline Capital A Bhd, is talking to undisclosed potential strategic partners to raise funding for its expansion across Southeast Asia. “We are in discussion with potential strategic partners across the globe who we believe can add value in fulfilling our mission across the region,” CEO and co-founder Salim Dhanani tells The Edge in an interview. Salim took the helm at BigPay in December 2020.
THE holiday season is always the best time to watch TV shows. I am not sure if others will agree with me, but I spend an enormous amount of time in front of the small screen watching football, Netflix movies and Astro, too.
KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim promised a unity government to stabilise the country and now he needs to find a finance minister who can steer the economy and help him hold onto power.
IN my recent book, What’s in a Name, I provide some historical context of how the Malaysian system — the workings of our society, politics and economics — declined over the years and as the corollary of it, the growth of a three-headed monster that seems to rule this country. The three heads of the monster are: identity politics, endemic corruption and over-centralisation of power. Most of our shortcomings and problems as a country can be traced back to one, two or all of its heads. This three-headed monster stands between us and a better future