Kuala Lumpur, 18 January 2022:

Guardian Malaysia which started with only 200 square feet of retail space 55 years ago, today celebrates the opening of its 500th store which has no floors,  no walls and operates 24/7.

This 500th store is Guardian’s new mobile app which has been developed to offer greater benefits for our customers.  Among the features of the app are shortcut icons for quicker access to bulk deals, online exclusives, popular products, function to add products to your “Wish List”, trending searches, and nationwide delivery - three (3) to five (5) working days for West Malaysia and six (6) to ten (10) working days for East Malaysia.

SINGAPORE - Media OutReach - 18 January 2022 - Carousell Media Group, the advertising arm of Carousell Group (Carousell, Mudah.my, ChoTot, OneKyat and Ox Street) today launched Connect. Connect is a first-of-its-kind recommerce programmatic buying platform that deploys best-in-class DSP ad-technology, and is powered by the buying, selling and search data signals generated from the Carousell Media Group's tens of millions of monthly users across Greater Southeast Asia (Southeast Asia, Taiwan and Hong Kong).

The Connect platform will give advertisers a viable alternative to the closed environments like Google and Facebook, by providing them with full-funnel marketing solutions and enabling them to engage with Carousell Media Group's audiences on every ad format available across the open internet - video, display, audio and Connected TV. What really sets the Connect offering apart is the integration of first-party and third-party data sets to deliver end-to-end campaigns with actionable and verifiable results.

Kuala Lumpur, 18 January 2022 — Versa Asia Sdn Bhd, Malaysian fintech startup and digital cash management platform, announces that it has achieved over RM 100 million in transactions. As yet another significant milestone in Malaysia’s financial technology scene, Versa has also witnessed the creation of over 30,000 accounts on its platform in less than a year after the official launch. 

Crisis After Crisis: A Challenging Financial Backdrop

Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ministry of Finance’s recent findings reveals that almost half of the Employees’ Provident Fund’s (EPF) members have less than RM10,000 left in savings, including 3.6 million members who have less than RM1,000. With Malaysians using most of their EPF savings as temporary financial relief over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is estimated that members will need to work an extra 4 to 6 years to rebuild their savings that have been used during the pandemic.