SPEECH - Speech by YBhg Tan Sri Zarinah Anwar Chairman, Securities Commission Malaysia at the Launch of Capital Market Masterplan 2 - April 12, 2011

Speech by

YBhg Tan Sri Zarinah Anwar
Chairman, Securities Commission Malaysia

at the

Launch of Capital Market Masterplan 2
12 April 2011
Shangri-La Hotel, Kuala Lumpur

Ladies and Gentlemen,

The launch of CMP2 is a significant milestone in the development of the capital market of Malaysia. It marks the successful implementation of the first Capital Market Masterplan where 95% of the 152 recommendations were completed. CMP1 has been a remarkably prescient document that continues to retain relevance even after a decade and has been used by many countries as a model plan for the development of their own capital markets. (full story)

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