INDONESIA - FOREIGN - Affin up on Bank Muamalat Malaysia stake buy talks

www.btimes.com.my -KUALA LUMPUR: Affin Holdings Bhd, Malaysia’s smallest banking group by
market value, rallied the most in a month after obtaining central bank
approval to start talks to buy a stake in the country’s second-oldest
Islamic bank.

The stock advanced as much as 2.3 per cent in Kuala
Lumpur trading to RM3.56. It pared gains to RM3.54 at 11:50am, poised
for its steepest increase