Malaysia · Financial institution
Alliance Bank Malaysia Berhad
Alliance Bank Malaysia Berhad is a public company incorporated in Malaysia. Its head office is at Menara Alliance Bank in Kuala Lumpur. Its shares are listed on the Main Market of Bursa Malaysia, and its largest shareholder is Vertical Theme Sdn Bhd. The bank provides consumer, SME, commercial and corporate banking, and it offers Islamic banking through its subsidiary Alliance Islamic Bank Berhad. Formerly Multi-Purpose Bank Berhad, it took over the listing status of its former holding company, Alliance Financial Group Berhad, on 26 September 2017.
Licences and registrations
Matched by LEI on the 22 tracked registers
None matched by LEI in the 22 tracked registers.
- The tracked registers cover payment, e-money, crypto and money-service firms in 37 countries. Bank licences from national supervisors are not tracked.
Swift network
Swift’s ISO 9362 BIC directory
- BIC
- MFBBMYKLXXX head office
- Connection to Swift
- Connected to SwiftThis BIC is registered as a live address on the Swift network. The institution sends and receives Swift messages under MFBBMYKL directly.
- Swift GPI
- Live member
- Payment schemes and systems
- No entry in the EPC registers, the ECB T2 and TIPS lists or the SIX Bank Master cites this BIC
- Branch codes
- None: head-office BIC only
- BIC first registered
- 1990-12-03
- Last updated
- 2026-01-12
Overview
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
Employees
Not published
Ownership
Publicly listed
Ticker 2488 (ABMB)
Institution type
Commercial bank
Trades as Alliance Bank
- Ownership
- Vertical Theme Sdn Bhd, 49% owned by Temasek Holdings through Duxton Investment & Development, holds about 29%, and the rest of the shares are widely held.
- Major shareholders
- Vertical Theme Sdn Bhd 29.06% · 24 Nov 2025
Employees Provident Fund Board - Stock listing
- Bursa Malaysia (Main Market) 2488 (ABMB)
- Head office
- Menara Alliance Bank, 159 Jalan Ampang, 50450 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Company register
- 198201008390 (88103-W), Companies Commission of Malaysia (SSM)
- Former names
- Multi-Purpose Bank Berhad · Malaysian French Bank Berhad
Business lines
The bank reports consumer, SME, commercial and corporate lending, financial markets and corporate and capital market business. According to its 1QFY2027 results, SME loans were MYR 23.5 billion and its SME market share was 5.6%.
Online
- Websites & references
- alliancebank.com.my ↗
allianceonline.com.my ↗ internet banking (allianceonline)
alliancebizsmart.com.my ↗ business banking portal (Alliance BizSmart)
Wikipedia ↗ - Official social accounts
- None found
Sources · 15 pages consulted
- alliancebank.com.my/
- alliancebank.com.my/About-Us/Corporate-Profile/Board-Directors
- alliancebank.com.my/About-Us/Corporate-Profile/Management-Team
- alliancebank.com.my/About-Us/Corporate-Profile/Corporate-Information
- alliancebank.com.my/About-Us/Governance-Investor-Relations/Investor-Relations
- alliancebank.com.my/About-Us/Media-Centre/Alliance-Bank-Posts-25-percent-YOY-Net-Profit-Growth-for-1QFY2027
- alliancebank.com.my/Contact-Us
- alliancebank.com.my/About-Us/Corporate-Profile/Corporate-Structure
- bnm.gov.my/-/alliance-bank-malaysia-berhad
- thestar.com.my/business/business-news/2017/09/27/abmb-takes-over-listing-status-of-alliance-financial-gr
- theedgemalaysia.com/node/781007
- finance.yahoo.com/news/dbs-revises-alliance-bank-stake-114146817.html
- klse.i3investor.com/web/announcement/detail/1966688
- theedgemalaysia.com/node/748875
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_Bank_Malaysia
Leadership
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Chief executive
- Kellee Kam Chee Khiong Group Chief Executive Officer
- Chair
-
Tan Sri Amirsham bin A Aziz
Chairman, Independent Director
- Chief financial officer
-
Ronnie Royston Fernandiz
Group Chief Financial Officer
- Executive
-
Wong Yuen Weng Ernest
Deputy Chairman, Non-Independent Non-Executive Director
- Executive
-
Jacob Abraham
Group Chief Risk Officer (also responsible for Group Compliance)
Supervisors & regulators
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Malaysia
- Bank Negara Malaysia Central bankPrudential supervisorAML supervisorConductForeign exchange
Recent events
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
-
Leadership
The bank appointed Chap Kar Hin as Group Chief Operations Officer with effect from 1 June 2026.
alliancebank.com.my ↗ -
Other
Bloomberg reported that DBS Group had replaced its application to buy up to 49% of the bank with one for up to 30%.
finance.yahoo.com ↗ -
Leadership
The bank appointed Ernest Kwong as Group Chief Credit Officer with effect from 1 November 2025.
alliancebank.com.my ↗ -
Other
The bank launched a renounceable rights issue of 182,130,109 new shares at MYR 3.33 per share.
klse.i3investor.com ↗ -
Other
Bloomberg reported that Vertical Theme Sdn Bhd was considering selling its stake of about 29% in the bank to DBS Group.
klse.i3investor.com ↗ -
Leadership
The bank appointed Tan Sri Amirsham bin A Aziz as Chairman with effect from 1 October 2024.
alliancebank.com.my ↗
Compliance-relevant events of the last three years, newest first: fines and enforcement, investigations, incidents, leadership changes, mergers and licence changes. Each links to its source.
Identifiers
Head-office record
- BIC
- MFBBMYKLXXX
- How the BIC breaks down
- MFBBBank
- MYCountry · Malaysia
- KLLocation
- XXXBranch · head office
- Branch description
- Not recorded in the directory
- LEI
- 2JJF46RULNMN5RTBEC18
- LEI record
- View on GLEIF ↗
- How the LEI was matched
- BIC: Mapped to this BIC in the Swift and GLEIF BIC-to-LEI relationship file.
Profile
- Type
- Financial institutionClassified as a financial institution in Swift’s ISO 9362 BIC directory, with no licence on a tracked register. This includes banks that neither the ECB nor the FSB lists, as well as brokers, fund managers, insurers and market infrastructure.
- Regulation
- Not on a tracked registerNo licence or registration was found for this entity on the registers the directory tracks, or on the ECB and FSB bank lists. Most banks are licensed by national supervisors whose registers are not tracked yet. This does not mean that the institution is unregulated.
- Register licences
- None matched by LEI in the 22 tracked registersThe tracked registers cover payment, e-money, crypto and money-service firms in 37 countries. Bank licences from national supervisors are not tracked.
- Country · region
- Malaysia · East Asia & Pacific
- Trading venues (MIC)
- No MIC registered under this LEI list of 2026-09-17
- OFAC sanctions
- No listing cites this BIC
- EU sanctions
- No listing matched this BIC or its LEI
- Country sanctions
- No country programme
Types come from Swift’s BIC classification, the licences on the 22 tracked registers, and the ECB and FSB bank lists. Most banks outside the euro area appear as financial institutions, because their supervisors’ registers are not tracked yet.
No licence or registration was found for this entity on the 22 registers the directory tracks, or on the ECB and FSB bank lists. Most banks are licensed by national supervisors whose registers are not tracked yet. This does not mean that the institution is unregulated.
Ownership and group
GLEIF relationship records
The Alliance Bank Malaysia Berhad group has 3 institutions in the directory, in 1 country: all hold a BIC.
Including Alliance Investment Bank Berhad, Alliance Islamic Bank Berhad.
See the Alliance Bank Malaysia Berhad group →Group membership follows the accounting-consolidation relationships reported to GLEIF. It does not show ownership shares or control.
Addresses
- Registered address
- 23F, MENARA ALLIANCE BANK 159 JALAN AMPANG KUALA LUMPUR 50450 MALAYSIA
- Operational address
- MENARA ALLIANCE BANK FLOOR 20 159 JALAN AMPANG KUALA LUMPUR KUALA LUMPUR 50450 MALAYSIA
ISO 20022 identification
As an agent in a Swift cross-border payment message (CBPR+)
A CBPR+ message identifies this institution by its BIC, and may add its LEI or a clearing code. CBPR+ does not allow a name and postal address next to a BIC.
- Identified by
- BIC, with its LEI
- Roles in CBPR+
- Any agent, including the instructing and instructed agents
CBPR+
For cross-border payments on Swift: the BIC, with the LEI and clearing code where known
<FinInstnId>
<BICFI>MFBBMYKLXXX</BICFI>
<LEI>2JJF46RULNMN5RTBEC18</LEI>
</FinInstnId>Full record
Every ISO 20022 element the directory holds. Base ISO 20022 allows them together. CBPR+ does not allow a name and address next to a BIC
<FinInstnId>
<BICFI>MFBBMYKLXXX</BICFI>
<LEI>2JJF46RULNMN5RTBEC18</LEI>
<Nm>ALLIANCE BANK MALAYSIA BERHAD</Nm>
<PstlAdr>
<TwnNm>KUALA LUMPUR</TwnNm>
<Ctry>MY</Ctry>
<AdrLine>23F, MENARA ALLIANCE BANK 159 JALAN AMPANG KUALA LUMPUR 50450</AdrLine>
</PstlAdr>
</FinInstnId>The BIC, name and address are as published in Swift’s BIC directory. The LEI comes from the Swift and GLEIF BIC-to-LEI file. Check them against your own records before use.
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Sources & method
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Read the methodology →Credits for this page
- Ownership and group—GLEIF Level 2 relationship records (accounting consolidation), matched by LEI.
- Overview, leadership, regulators and events—researched per institution by an AI model with web search, from the institution's own website and reports, regulators, company registers and news. Figures, people and events link to their source, and each card shows the research date. AI research can be wrong or out of date, so check key facts at the source.
- Images—logos and photos from Wikimedia Commons (credited with their author and licence) or from the institution's own website, where Wikimedia has none. Elucidate keeps a copy of each; the links lead to the source and the original image. Logo: alliancebank.com.my (official website) · original; Tan Sri Amirsham bin A Aziz: alliancebank.com.my (official website) · original; Ronnie Royston Fernandiz: alliancebank.com.my (official website) · original; Wong Yuen Weng Ernest: alliancebank.com.my (official website) · original; Jacob Abraham: alliancebank.com.my (official website) · original.
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