CIMB Bank Berhad

Business Description

CIMB Bank Berhad is the Malaysian banking group's Hong Kong corporate and institutional banking platform, serving multinational corporations, financial institutions, and investors across Greater China and Southeast Asia. CIMB's Hong Kong presence dates to 1992, when the group established its Hong Kong operations as part of its international expansion. CIMB traces its institutional origins to Bank of Commerce, established in Malaysia in 1924, and subsequently developed through mergers that created the modern CIMB Group. The firm provides corporate banking, transaction banking, trade finance, treasury, foreign exchange, structured financing, investment banking, and capital-markets services, with particular expertise in cross-border transactions connecting Asia-Pacific markets. CIMB Bank Berhad is the principal banking subsidiary of CIMB Group Holdings Berhad, one of Southeast Asia's major universal banking groups headquartered in Malaysia. The group has expanded across ASEAN and key international financial centres, including Hong Kong.