Market Talk

Ibrahim Sani speaks to Azila Abdul Aziz, CEO of Kenanga Futures Sdn Bhd and also the Head of Listed Derivatives on what the future holds for the derivatives market in Malaysia and beyond.

Ibrahim Sani speaks to McKinsey & Co's Managing Partner for Malaysia, Nimal Manuel on the real reason why the management consulting firm bought the locally-made digital company - VLT Labs last month.

CFM is the body under the Ministry of Communications and Multimedia that deals with consumer complaints. Ibrahim Sani speaks to CFM to understand how they operate, and how consumers can reach out to them to air their grievances.

In our goal to become a developed nation by 2020, perhaps the most important aspect is not trade or infrastructure building but the quality of our human capital. Luqman Hariz discusses the state of our human capital landscape with Talentcorp CEO, Shareen Shariza Abdul Ghani.

In the cut-throat consumer electronics sector that moves with breakneck speed, LG, like many of its competitors, needs to make major pivots to stay relevant. How is it planning to do so?

Ibrahim Sani speaks to Hans-Peter Ressel, Lazada Malaysia CEO on the upside of the company following the launching of the first day of operations of the Digital Free Trade Zone (DFTZ). Lazada stands to gain 600 million ASEAN shoppers next year once DFTZ goes live. What can we learn from the company?

Was the Catalonia crisis badly handled from the beginning? And was the government out of touch with the dissatisfaction that’s been brewing on the ground? Luqman Hariz has a hard talk with Carlos Domínguez Díaz, Spain’s ambassador to Malaysia & Brunei, to discuss where things went wrong, and whether the damage could ever be undone.

Ibrahim Sani interviews Matt Whittaker, the great grandson of the Whittaker chocolate founder on how he and his company, intend to break new ground in the Malaysian market and promote their premium-mass chocolates. Whittaker Chocolates has its origins in New Zealand, and now they have great plans to go big in Malaysia and globally.

Just like many other tech companies, TP-Link has to pivot from legacy businesses to new ones to stay relevant in the fast-changing digital world. But did it come at a cost?

What happens when the market you are in\ is constricted, mature, and saturated? You do more and more sales of course! The trucking industry is one as old as the industrial age itself, and yet Scania continues to innovate and achieve breakthrough after breakthrough. Ibrahim Sani speaks to Scania MD of Southeast Asia, Marie Sjodin Enstrom to learn more from this extremely successful company.