Malaysia Financial Crisis 2008



The real estate bubble finally burst.

Malaysia financial crisis 2008. Bank negara malaysia also managed the financial sector well following the bitter experience of the asian financial crisis and hence non performing loans as a share of total loans fell to 2 2 in 2008 and remained at roughly that level in the first two quarters of 2009. Fortunately for some countries they were able to recover from the economic plague. Successful reforms of the financial sector following the asian financial crisis have further reinforced the strong fundamentals supporting a sound financial sector in malaysia.

However the local financial institution is not much affected. Following the 2008 09 global financial crisis that especially hit the united states and europe many hundreds of billions of dollars rushed to emerging markets including malaysia in search of. Us 2 5 trillion of government debt and troubled private assets were purchased by the federal reserve and european central bank resulting in the largest liquidity injection into the credit market and the largest monetary policy action in world history.

The main cause of the 2008 financial crisis in the united states is the excessive use of credit especially in the housing market. Malaysia and some asean countries will be able to overcome the global financial crisis because their economies are resilient supported by pro growth and proactive policies a visiting don said. Besides during the economic crisis in 2008 the bank system has a sufficient capital to recovery from the crisis and malaysian authorities had limited exposure to foreign bank borrowing.

The financial crisis of 2007 2008 also known as the global financial crisis gfc was a severe worldwide financial crisis excessive risk taking by banks combined with the bursting of the united states housing bubble caused the values of securities tied to u s. Malaysia has learned from the asean financial crisis in 1997 1998 and much stronger position when entered the global financial crisis in 2008. Days after 2008 financial crisis in 2008 a global economic crisis struck with many countries experiencing the full brunt of it s effects.

Real estate to plummet damaging financial institutions globally culminating with the bankruptcy of lehman brothers on september.