"In recent years, Sarawak has retaken Bintulu Port from the federal government, bought over regional airline MASwings from the national flag carrier Malaysia Airlines, and is in the final stages of acquiring a controlling stake in Affin Bank."
"You will hear within a week. I don't want to make an official announcement as I don't want people to buy the bank's stocks. That's why I don't want to tell earlier,"
Affin Bank's counter service is the slowest in the country. It is common to observe a single customer finally completing their bank transaction after 40 minutes at one counter. Maybe it is a common knowledge that Affin Bank caters to many old timers who like their FD rates. But slow counter service means they serve fewer customers as compared to other banks especially Public Bank on an hour basis. I only go to Affin Bank once a while out of necessity. Affin Bank must improve their counter service. The bank's auditors on counter service must work on improving counter service.
At the signing ceremony the price they acquired from LTAT was not revealed. There is a strong possibility of different pricing used for the shares acquired. Maybe later we will know more about the S&P details.
say buy 27% but don't say price... something fishy. Bursa and SC must query them..if NO query... next election we should know what to do.. 2 X 5... both Govt is the same either PH or PN.
Sarawak has inked an S&P to purchase approximately 634.7 million Affin shares from two vendors, namely Boustead and LTAT for a total consideration of ..............
I quote partly from the Edge Weekly. " A conspicuously missing price tag: ..........It comes as a surprised that the price paid could not be revealed during the signing ceremony as talks on the transactions have been ongoing for more than a year. Why the secrecy over the price,and secondly,what essential terms do the SPA contain?" end quote.
The price is secret because it is toooo low to tell. Isn't that obvious! Sarawak probably bought that for only rm2 so cannt tell Public otherwise public will dump Affin shares
Recall last time they bought the 5% for only rm1.97! This time maybe just rm2. And investors here have been speculating speculating pushing up the share price above rm3
Looking at the Affin news on the pricing. Strong possibilities of Sarawak government paid different pricing to LTAT and Boustead. Latest news Sarawak State owns 31% , LTAT still owns 20% , Boustead disposed their 20% share . Previously Sarawak acquires 5% from LTAT plus now the 20% from Boustead. The balance 5%-6% from open market. Bank of East Asia still owns 23% { provided they did not disposed any shares } the share spread is very tight. Sarawak 31% + LTAT 20% + BEast Asia 23% = 74 %
KUALA LUMPUR:CIMB Securities has raised its target price for Affin Bank Bhd with expectation that the Sarawak state government will deposit some RM4 billion into the bank next year.
On Friday, Affin announced that the state emerged as its single largest shareholder, with a 31 per cent interest, after Lembaga Tabung Angkatan Tentera (LTAT), and Boustead Holdings Bhd collectively sold their 26 per cent stake to the state's special purpose vehicle SG AssetFin Holdings Sdn Bhd.
"We believe there has been no significant deposit contribution from the Sarawak government over the past one year, despite the Sarawak government's initial acquisition of the 4.81 per cent stake last year."
"We are now assuming new current account savings account (Casa) potential in financial year 2025, of at least RM4 billion from the new major shareholder," it said.
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Sarawak vision is to be the "Bavaria" or economic engine state of Malaysia.