Ever since Malayan Bank (now Maybank) was coerced to be absorbed by the government years ago, it is one-way ticket for the majority group to encroach into practically all banks started by the minority group. That has been the norm of the tragic nation. They still mull to take over Hong Leong Bank and Public Bank...
It was mainly the Chinese who had built up Malaya/Malaysia right from the bottom from the good old days. The Chinese were originally emigrants from the southern parts of China. Just the same as those Chinese who had emigrated to Indonesia. These Chinese emigrants after settling down in Malaya and Indonesia started to involve in a majority of industrial enterprise including banking, mining and agriculture sectors.