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47. FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT OBJECTIVES AND POLICIES (CONT’D.)
(a) Credit risk (cont’d.)
(iv) Credit quality for financial investments
Set out below are the credit quality for financial investments (non-money market instruments - debt securities)
analysed by ratings from external credit ratings agencies:
Financial investments at Financial investments at
amortised cost Non-Money FVOCI Non-Money
Market Instruments Market Instruments
- Debt Securities - Debt Securities
Domestic Domestic
Ratings Total Ratings Total
Group and Bank RM’000 RM’000 RM’000 RM’000
2024
AAA+ to AA- - - 1,256,288 1,256,288
Unrated - - 68,660 68,660
Defaulted - - 546 546
Sovereign - - 6,027,783 6,027,783
Total - - 7,353,277 7,353,277
2023
AAA+ to AA- - - 672,206 672,206
BBB+ to BB- - - 10,218 10,218
Unrated 116,871 116,871 78,904 78,904
Defaulted - - 13 13
Sovereign - - 5,560,859 5,560,859
Total 116,871 116,871 6,322,200 6,322,200
The ratings shown for debt securities are based on the ratings assigned to the specific debt issuance. As at
the reporting date and prior year, none of the financial investments mentioned above are past due, except for
defaulted corporate sukuk of the Group and the Bank held under financial investments at fair value through
other comprehensive income with carrying amount of RM546,000 (2023: RM13,000), which have been fully
provided for.
(b) Market risk
Market risk refer to the potential loss arising from adverse movements in market variables such as rate of return,
foreign exchange rate, equity prices and commodity prices.
Types of market risk
(i) Traded market risk
Traded market risk, primarily rate of return risk and credit spread risk, exists in the Group’s and the Bank’s
trading positions held for the purpose of benefiting from short-term price movements, which are conducted
primarily by the treasury operations.

