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The issues of accountability, trustworthiness and reliability of the financial service provider has been discussed since the starts of modern trading era. The history of banks acting unethically has cumulatively cost billions to the financial consumers. As the world pragmatically and dynamically changing, Islamic finance industry growing bigger and stronger with year on year market growth exponentially increase by 6.9%. As the consumers now having options to choose either conventional or I...

This study examines the influence of number of women, qualification of women, age of women, and tenure of women on corporate boards towards firm corporate social performance of more than 300 Malaysian public companies listed on Bursa Malaysia. Data for this study had been collected from the annual reports that were available on Bursa Malaysia’s database for year 2018. This study had utilized a purposive sampling method where a total of 338 public listed companies had been chosen as the sam...

The potential of Islamic microfinance does not only restrict to the need ofmeeting demands, but also to integrate the Islamic social principle to care forthe less fortunate with microfinance’s ability in providing financial access to thepoor. As the religious values contradict to the operations of conventional MFIs,large numbers of Muslim communities have been quite reluctant to participatein microfinance programmes. In this respect, Islamic MFIs may be a suitableal...

Financial Literacy among youths is a global concern worldwide. This includes alarming problems such as the high bankruptcy level among youths and the weaknesses in managing finance among youths such as managing debt, personal finance and savings. The OECD has provided a framework which assess the Financial Attitude, Financial Behaviour and Financial Knowledge to determine the level of Financial Literacy among youths. However, the result will very much vary within countries such as first wo...

The Malaysia Competition Commission (MyCC) was established on 1st April 2011. The MyCC came into force by virtue of the Competition Commission Act 2010 (CCA 2010) on 1st January 2012. In 2017, the MyCC celebrated its 7th Anniversary. The objectives of the MyCC are to enhance consumer welfare, business practices and economic development. It has now been almost eight years that the MyCC came into existence and taking into account its enforcement activities and advocacy initiatives, there wer...