CIMB moves tokenised funding into forward financing plans in Malaysia

By 27 February 2026, CIMB had moved beyond generic tokenisation rhetoric: it had tied part of future funding requirements to tokenised bond and sukuk formats, linked tokenised deposits to settlement for tokenised securities, and entered BNM's supervised Digital Asset Innovation Hub to test regulated payment and settlement use cases.

By 27 February 2026, CIMB had moved beyond generic tokenisation rhetoric: it had tied part of future funding requirements to tokenised bond and sukuk formats, linked tokenised deposits to settlement for tokenised securities, and entered BNM's supervised Digital Asset Innovation Hub to test regulated payment and settlement use cases.

On 27 February 2026, CIMB's FY2025 results release said the Group had "committed part of its future funding requirements to be in tokenised format." Standing alone, that line could read like innovation branding.

CIMB's 27 February 2026 results release matters because it turns tokenisation from a general innovation theme into an explicit future-funding signal, tied to supervised work on own-sukuk issuance and tokenised-deposit settlement.