The market may also re-rate listed MBf Holdings and MBf Capital because of their cash-rich position.

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Loy Teik Ngan, 36, is now chief executive officer of MBf Holdings, MBf Capital and MBf Finance.

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Teik Ngan may try to look for a friendly party, perhaps a Malay businessman with ties to the government. (Tunku Abdullah, the brother of the current King of Malaysia, is executive chairman of MBf Finance and chairman of MBf Holdings and MBf Capital.) But many such bumiputra entrepreneurs already have problems of their own.

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