Malaysia · Financial institution
Public Bank Berhad
Public Bank Berhad is a public company incorporated in Malaysia, with its head office at Menara Public Bank in Kuala Lumpur. It was founded in 1966 and its shares are listed on Bursa Malaysia. Its largest shareholder is Consolidated Teh Holdings Sdn Berhad, a vehicle of the founder's family, followed by the Employees Provident Fund. The bank provides commercial banking and related financial services and is the holding company of a group active in Malaysia, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Sri Lanka and China.
Licences and registrations
Held by the legal entity, not by this BIC
This BIC is mapped to LEI 549300L2RSQCVMOHGM20 (Public Bank Berhad) in the Swift and GLEIF BIC-to-LEI file. The legal entity’s page is Public Bank Berhad (PBBELKLX). None matched by LEI in the 22 tracked registers.
Licences belong to the legal entity. Each applies in the country of the regulator that granted it, not to every BIC that carries the LEI.
Swift network
Swift’s ISO 9362 BIC directory
- BIC
- PBBEMYKLXXX 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 PBBEMYKL 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
- 1989-03-06
- Last updated
- 2022-02-14
Overview
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
Employees
Not published
Ownership
Publicly listed
Ticker 1295
Institution type
Commercial bank
Trades as Public Bank
- Ownership
- The bank is listed and widely held: the Teh family held 21.38% in June 2026, mainly through Consolidated Teh Holdings (20.73%), and the Employees Provident Fund held 16.92%.
- Major shareholders
- Consolidated Teh Holdings Sdn Berhad 20.73% · 12 Jun 2026
Employees Provident Fund Board 16.92% · 12 Jun 2026 - Stock listing
- Bursa Malaysia 1295
- Head office
- Menara Public Bank, 146 Jalan Ampang, 50450 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Business lines
According to its group results releases, the bank concentrates on retail consumer and SME financing, including residential property, commercial property and hire-purchase loans.
Online
- Websites & references
- publicbankgroup.com ↗ did not load when checked
pbebank.com ↗ retail and online banking site
Wikipedia ↗ - Official social accounts
- None found
Sources · 12 pages consulted
- publicbankgroup.com/about-us/corporate-governance/bods-profile/
- publicbankgroup.com/about-us/leadership/group-management-profile/
- publicbankgroup.com/news-update/media-release/
- publicbankgroup.com/news-update/media-release/2025/
- marketscreener.com/news/public-bank-2025-annual-report-ce7e51d2dc81ff27
- marketscreener.com/news/public-bank-proposes-privatization-of-public-financial-ce785bd8dc8af527
- publicbank.com.hk/en/aboutus/boardofdirectors
- theedgemalaysia.com/node/806857
- bernama.com/en/news.php?id=2435364
- theedgemalaysia.com/node/815772
- pblebank.com/pble/banking/list-of-deposit-instruction/
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Bank_Berhad
Leadership
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Chief executive
-
Tan Sri Dato' Sri (Dr) Tay Ah Lek
Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer
- Chair
-
Lai Wan
Non-Independent Non-Executive Chairman
- Executive
- Dato' Chang Kat Kiam Deputy Chief Executive Officer
Supervisors & regulators
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Malaysia
- Bank Negara Malaysia Central bankPrudential supervisorAML supervisorConductForeign exchange
Recent events
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
-
Merger / acquisition
The bank proposed to take its Hong Kong-listed subsidiary Public Financial Holdings private through a scheme of arrangement for about HKD 734.7 million.
marketscreener.com ↗ -
Other
Consolidated Teh Holdings and the founder's estate sold about 251 million shares, reducing the Teh family's stake to 21.38%.
theedgemalaysia.com ↗ -
Other
The Federal Court ordered the bank to pay MYR 90 million in damages to National Feedlot Corporation and others for breach of banking confidentiality.
bernama.com ↗ -
Leadership
The bank promoted Chang Kat Kiam, previously Senior Chief Operating Officer, to Deputy Chief Executive Officer.
publicbankgroup.com ↗
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
- PBBEMYKLXXX
- How the BIC breaks down
- PBBEBank
- MYCountry · Malaysia
- KLLocation
- XXXBranch · head office
- Branch description
- Not recorded in the directory
- 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 registers
- 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 Public Bank Berhad group has 6 institutions in the directory, in 5 countries: all hold a BIC.
Including Public Investment Bank Berhad, Public Bank (Hong Kong) Limited, Public Bank (Hong Kong) Limited, Shenzhen Branch.
See the Public Bank Berhad group →Group membership follows the accounting-consolidation relationships reported to GLEIF. It does not show ownership shares or control.
Addresses
- Registered address
- MENARA PUBLIC BANK 146 JALAN AMPANG KUALA LUMPUR 50450 12542 MALAYSIA
- Operational address
- MENARA PUBLIC BANK 146 JALAN AMPANG KUALA LUMPUR KUALA LUMPUR 50450 POB 12542 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>PBBEMYKLXXX</BICFI>
<LEI>549300L2RSQCVMOHGM20</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>PBBEMYKLXXX</BICFI>
<LEI>549300L2RSQCVMOHGM20</LEI>
<Nm>PUBLIC BANK BERHAD</Nm>
<PstlAdr>
<TwnNm>KUALA LUMPUR</TwnNm>
<Ctry>MY</Ctry>
<AdrLine>MENARA PUBLIC BANK 146 JALAN AMPANG KUALA LUMPUR 50450 12542</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.
Network
Correspondent banking
The bank publishes 1 account at other banks.
- Own offices
- Correspondent banks: it holds accounts there
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Correspondent accounts
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
1 account at other banks, for deposits for further credit to Public Bank (L) Ltd, as the bank publishes them: pblebank.com ↗
| Currency | Correspondent | BIC | Account | Directory check |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Limited, Melbourne Australia | ANZBAU3M | — | Matches the Swift directory |
This is a deposit-instruction page of the subsidiary Public Bank (L) Ltd, Labuan. It routes funds through accounts held by Public Bank Berhad (PBBEMYKL) at correspondent banks. The page could not be fetched, so only the one row visible in a search excerpt was extracted. Currency and account number were not visible, so the list is incomplete. No correspondent or SSI page was found on publicbankgroup.com or pbebank.com, and both domains were blocked to the fetch tool. Each correspondent BIC is checked against the Swift directory: a BIC missing from it, or registered to a differently named bank, may be a typo or out of date. Confirm settlement instructions with the bank before relying on them.
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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. Tan Sri Dato' Sri (Dr) Tay Ah Lek: publicbankgroup.com (official website) · original; Lai Wan: publicbankgroup.com (official website) · original.
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