Features of Gulf Cooperation Council Banks Investment in Malaysia

Abstract

Finance is the lifeblood of trade and commercial industry. Today’s competitive markets uses of complementary resources in collaborative agreements for many enterprises are the only means to expand internationally and gain global competitiveness. Trades between countries occur by exchanging goods and/or services with their counterparts. The economic interactions between parts of the world with another have expanded over the centuries and exerted significant impact on the world’s economic development. This study is among the earliest to investigate the various GCC bank features that operate in Malaysia. Seven large GCC banks in Malaysia were studied to document the GCC Banks features that have invested in Malaysia. The data of this study were collected through surfing the websites of all these GCC banks, conducting semi-structured interviews with the top managements of these banks and through reviewing, tracing and comparing the information of their past and current from literature works to report the features of GCC banks investment in Malaysia.