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| Company type | Private limited company |
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| Industry | Payment system |
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| Founded | 1 August 2017; 8 years ago (2017-08-01) |
| Headquarters | Level 8, Menara Southpoint @ Mid Valley City,Medan Syed Putra Selatan, 59200Kuala Lumpur ,Malaysia |
Area served | Malaysia |
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| Services | Financial services |
| Parent | Bank Negara Malaysia Maybank RHB Bank Public Bank CIMB Bank AmBank Hong Leong Bank Affin Bank Alliance Bank Bank Islam Bank Muamalat Bank Rakyat |
| Subsidiaries | Malaysian Electronic Payment System Sdn Bhd MEPS Currency Management Sdn Bhd |
| Website | paynet |
Payments Network Malaysia Sdn Bhd (PayNet) is the national payments network and shared central infrastructure forMalaysia’s financial markets. It was formed from the merger between theMalaysian Electronic Payment System (MEPS) and Malaysian Electronic Clearing Corporation Sdn Bhd (MyClear) on 1 August 2017.[1] PayNet is Malaysia's premier payments network and central infrastructure for financial markets.
Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) owns a majority share in PayNet, along with eleven other local financial institutions as joint shareholders.[2]
PayNet was formed on 1 August 2017 from the merger of MEPs and My Clear.
TheBank for International Settlements signed an agreement withCentral Bank of Malaysia,Bank of Thailand,Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas,Monetary Authority of Singapore, and theReserve Bank of India on 30 June 2024 as founding member of Project Nexus, a multilateral international initiative to enable retail cross-border payments.Bank Indonesia involved as a special observer. The platform, which is expected to go live by 2026, will interlink domestic fast payment systems of the member countries.[3]
Following talks with Malaysian Prime MinisterAnwar Ibrahim,Indian Prime MinisterNarendra Modi declared on August 20, 2024, that his country intends to link itsUnified Payment Interface (UPI) with PayNet.[4]
The company's current service portfolio includes the following:
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