Labuan Business Licence

Banking

Labuan offers opportunities to qualified corporations to apply for licenses to carry-on commercial banking, investment banking or digital banking business.

Credit token

Labuan credit token license enables a business to issue cheques, cards, vouchers, stamps, booklets, coupons, forms, cryptocurrency or other document or thing which allow customers to access to goods and services upon presentation of such tokens.

Cryptocurrency issuers may consider applying for this license to provide legitimacy to the business.

Money broker

Labuan money broker license is ideal for businesses such as money changer, forex broker and crypto trading platforms or crypto exchanges.

Fund manager

Labuan fund manager license allows qualified corporations or individuals to carrying-on the business of fund management, investment advisory and dealing in securities.

Securities licensee

Labuan securities license is suitable for financial planners and advisors to carrying-on the business of investment advisory, dealing in securities and provide investment analysis.

Other financial service licenses

Labuan IBFC offers a wide spectrum of financial service licenses including businesses such as providing credit, project financing, factoring and leasing.

Trust company and managed trust company

Labuan trust company and managed trust company licenses are suitable for service providers who wish to provide company secretarial, corporate advisory and fiduciary services in Labuan.

Private Trust Company

Labuan private trust company license is for the specific purpose of acting as a trustee for a group of connected persons where the connected person is related to the settlor of the trust, i.e. a trustee within the family.

Insurance

Labuan offers a wide spectrum of licenses for the carrying-on of insurance or related businesses such as general insurance, life insurance, re-insurance, captive, takaful, re-takaful and insurance broker.

Company management

Labuan company management license enables one to carry-on treasury processing and corporate advisory services.

Exchange

Labuan Exchanges can be established for listing and trading of financial instruments such as equities, investment funds, debt instruments and other types of financial instruments including for listing of digital securities and trading of security tokens and cryptocurrencies. The listed instruments can be in conventional or Shariah-compliant forms.

Global Incentives for Trading (GIFT)

Under the programme, a set of incentives are offered through the establishment of the Labuan international commodity trading company (LITC), including incentives for traders and trading houses to use Malaysia as their international trading base.

Islamic Financial Business

Labuan Islamic Financial Services and Securities Act 2010 allows the structuring of a wide spectrum of Islamic financial services.

Application of Labuan Work Permit

2 years renewable work permit may be applied by business owner, top management staff and their dependents through a Labuan company.