CIMB Commerce Trustee Berhad & CIMB Islamic Trustee Berhad

CIMB's trustee business runs through two Malaysian trust companies plus a Labuan arm, all sitting inside CIMB Trustee Services on the Securities Services platform of CIMB Investment Bank. CIMB Islamic Trustee Berhad (company no. 198801000556 / 167913-M) was incorporated on 19 January 1988 and registered under the Trust Companies Act 1949; it has acted as a unit trust trustee since 1990 and is the Shariah-compliant arm. CIMB Commerce Trustee Berhad (company no. 199401027349 / 0313031A) was incorporated on 25 August 1994, also under the Trust Companies Act 1949, and has been a fund trustee since 1996; it is the conventional-side entity. Both are registered offices at Level 13, Menara CIMB, Jalan Stesen Sentral 2, KL Sentral, Kuala Lumpur. A related offshore entity, CIMB Trust Limited, operates out of Labuan for offshore vehicles and cross-border structures.\n\nThe combined trustee platform describes itself as a full-service provider with onshore and offshore operations serving both corporate and private clients. In practice its work spans three areas stated in CIMB Commerce Trustee's own registered business description: trustee to unit trust funds, public-debt financing issues (corporate bonds and sukuk), and private trusts and other corporate trusts. On the fund side the two entities act as trustee to unit trusts, wholesale funds, real estate investment trusts (REITs), private retirement schemes (PRS) and exchange-traded funds; their names appear in the constitutive documents of many Malaysian funds run by managers such as Kenanga, AIIMAN, Aberdeen and Manulife. On the capital markets side they serve as bond and sukuk trustee, security trustee and agent for conventional and Islamic private debt securities. CIMB Islamic Trustee is registered with the Securities Commission Malaysia (registration CMSP/T/005/2019) and both are qualified to act for collective investment schemes approved under the Capital Markets and Services Act 2007.\n\nThe entities are opaque as standalone businesses. They do not maintain a prominent independent website, publish no fee schedule, and disclose no assets under trusteeship, number of mandates or staff count. What can be verified comes from CIMB group materials, the funds and issuers that name them as trustee, the SC registered-trustee lists, and SSM/CTOS registry records. CIMB Group Holdings Berhad, the ultimate parent, is a Bursa Malaysia-listed banking group and one of the larger banking franchises in ASEAN, which gives the trustee units institutional backing and continuity. For estate planning or wasiat, individual clients are more likely to be routed to CIMB's wider wealth and private banking services than to engage these corporate-trustee entities directly.