{"id":324651,"date":"2026-03-26T10:46:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T02:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=324651"},"modified":"2026-03-26T10:46:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T02:46:05","slug":"cimb-wins-best-retail-bank-and-best-sme-bank-in-malaysia-at-the-asian-banker-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=324651","title":{"rendered":"CIMB wins Best Retail Bank and Best SME Bank in Malaysia at The Asian Banker Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>KUALA LUMPUR, March 26 (Bernama) &#8212;&nbsp;<\/strong>CIMB Bank Berhad (\u201cCIMB\u201d or \u201cthe Bank\u201d) has been recognised for its impact, innovation and contribution to the banking and finance industry through two awards from The Asian Banker\u2019s Global Excellence in Retail Finance Awards 2026.The awards lauded CIMB as&nbsp;<strong>Best Retail Bank in Malaysia<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Best SME Bank in Malaysia<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Asian Banker attributed this recognition as the\u00a0<strong>Best Retail Bank in Malaysia<\/strong>\u00a0to CIMB\u2019s strong demonstration of advancing the industry, including strengthening digital origination, fast decisioning and embedded finance partnerships. The Bank\u2019s innovative expansion of customer acquisition beyond branches and high automation in areas such as lending approvals demonstrated this market leadership. These efforts of strengthening our customer experience whilst maintaining sound risk management led to strong financial performance for the consumer bank and country.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mrem.bernama.com\/viewsm.php?idm=53845\">https:\/\/mrem.bernama.com\/viewsm.php?idm=53845<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, March 26 (Bernama) &#8212;&nbsp;CIMB Bank Berhad (\u201cCIMB\u201d or \u201cthe Bank\u201d) has been recognised for its impact, innovation and contribution to the banking and finance industry through two awards from The Asian Banker\u2019s Global Excellence in Retail Finance Awards 2026.The awards lauded CIMB as&nbsp;Best Retail Bank in Malaysia&nbsp;and&nbsp;Best SME Bank in Malaysia.&nbsp; The Asian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[315],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324651"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324652,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324651\/revisions\/324652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}