PETALING JAYA: Kenanga Investment Bank Bhd has begun talks to acquire the stockbroking business of Inter-Pacific Securities Sdn Bhd in a move that would create one of the largest stockbrokers in the country.

Kenanga Investment hopes to close the deal within six months.

“The potential acquisition would further strengthen Kenanga Investment’s leading position in the retail broking space to become the top-two largest stockbrokers in Malaysia, with a combined market share of over 10% and retail market share of about 25%,” group managing director Datuk Chay Wai Leong said in a statement yesterday.

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