Maybank Islamic Savings Account-i
Islamic Bank Accounts in Pahang
Maybank Islamic's everyday savings account, described on the product page as a Shariah-compliant savings account based on the contract of Qard (loan): the customer lends money to Maybank Islamic as borrower, which is obliged to repay in full. It comes with the Maybank Card Visa Debit earning TreatsPoints, e-pos cashless shopping, Maybank2u online banking, ATM services and Kawanku Phone Banking, no cap on withdrawals at home branches, and PIDM protection. Minimum deposit is RM250 for adults and RM1 for Trust/Minor/Student/monthly instalment accounts (crawled maybank2u.com.my 2026-08-06).
Maybank Islamic's Savings Account-i is the highest-distribution Islamic savings account in Malaysia and one of the few whose page actually teaches the customer what Qard means. What you get is convenience and PIDM-protected safekeeping inside Malaysia's biggest bank, not yield: no rate is printed, and the bank's legacy Islamic rates page still shows 2015 tables. Savers chasing return should look at Bank Islam's TDT-i, Public Islamic's 2.00% long-tenor term deposits or RHB's tiered Savings Account-i instead, and keep this as the transactional hub.
Pros
- Contract disclosure on the product page itself, with a plain-language explanation of Qard
- Access to Maybank's nationwide branch and ATM network, Malaysia's largest banking group
- Low entry: RM1 for minors and students, RM250 for adults
- PIDM deposit protection stated on page
Cons
- No profit or hibah rate printed; Qard deposits pay nothing contractually
- Maybank Islamic's crawlable rates page is dated 2015, so current deposit returns cannot be verified online
- Account opening is branch-based per the page instructions
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Product Details
Account Type
Savings account
Monthly Fee
Not stated on page
Min Deposit
RM250 for adults; RM1 for Trust/Minor/Student/monthly instalment accounts
Structure
Qard contract: bank repays principal in full; no contractual return
Maybank Islamic in Pahang
Maybank Islamic's Savings account serves customers in Pahang. Malaysian Islamic accounts pay contracted Tawarruq profit or discretionary hibah depending on the underlying contract, never interest. A monthly fee of Not stated on page applies. Deposits at PIDM member banks are protected up to RM250,000 per depositor per member bank; check each provider's membership status, which our profiles document. Maybank Islamic operates across Malaysia, so Pahang residents have full access to this product.
Our Take on Maybank Islamic
Maybank Islamic is the distribution king of Malaysian Islamic banking: every product category, the country's biggest network, and genuinely senior Shariah governance with all five scholars profiled publicly. Its weakness is rate transparency, with deposit returns poorly surfaced online and a crawlable legacy rates page still showing 2015 tables. Choose it for reach, contract clarity and governance pedigree; verify current pricing at the branch or in the PDS because the website will often not tell you.
How Maybank Islamic Works
Open the account or apply
Branch opening for most deposit accounts (RM250 adult minimum on Savings Account-i; RM1 for minor/student variants); financing applications via branch or Maybank2u.
Know your contract
Each product page names its Shariah contract (Qard, Commodity Murabahah, AITAB, Tawarruq); the PDS carries the full mechanics and pricing.
Bank on the network
Service via any Maybank branch, the country's largest ATM fleet, Kawanku Phone Banking and Maybank2u online/mobile.
Financing Structure
Maybank Islamic uses classical contract mapping across its shelf: Qard (interest-free loan to the bank) for transactional deposits, Commodity Murabahah/Tawarruq for term deposits and home and personal financing, AITAB (Ijarah then sale) for vehicle financing and Ujrah-family structures on cards. Each retail page names its contract, and PIDM protection applies to Islamic deposits separately from any conventional accounts a customer holds in the wider group.
In-Depth Analysis
Maybank Islamic is the Islamic banking arm of Malayan Banking Berhad and, by distribution, the largest Islamic banking franchise in Malaysia. Its retail proposition rests on ubiquity: the same Savings Account-i or home financing can be serviced at any Maybank branch, through Malaysia's largest ATM fleet, or on Maybank2u, the country's dominant digital banking platform.
Shariah governance is a genuine strength. The five committee members are published with full profiles: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aznan Hasan has chaired since May 2014 and simultaneously serves as President of ASAS and Deputy Chairman of the Securities Commission's Shariah Advisory Council; the committee also includes Dr. Oni Sahroni of Indonesia's DSN-MUI and Ustaz Mohd Kamal Mokhtar, a judge of Singapore's Shariah Appeal Court, giving the body cross-border weight (crawled maybank2u.com.my 2026-08-06).
Contract disclosure at product level is consistently good: the Savings Account-i page teaches Qard mechanics, the home financing page names Commodity Murabahah, vehicle financing names AITAB, and personal financing names Tawarruq. What is missing is pricing: deposit profit rates are largely absent from crawlable pages, and the bank's legacy Islamic rates page is dated 2015. The practical consequence is that a customer can verify what the contract is but usually not what it pays without visiting a branch.
Against the cluster, Maybank Islamic wins on network and governance seniority, draws on contract clarity, and loses on printed rates to CIMB (dated board rates), RHB (full rate schedules), Public Islamic (same-week rate sheets) and Bank Islam (printed financing EPRs).
Shariah Compliance Details
- Five-member Shariah Committee with full public profiles, chaired by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aznan Hasan since 1 May 2014 (maybank2u.com.my Shariah Committee page, crawled 2026-08-06)
- Operates under BNM's Shariah Governance policy and IFSA 2013, with BNM's Shariah Advisory Council as apex authority
- Contracts named at product level across deposits, financing and cards (crawled 2026-08-06)
- PIDM membership stated on deposit product pages; Islamic deposits protected up to RM250,000 separately from conventional deposits (crawled 2026-08-06)
How Maybank Islamic Compares
Against Bank Islam, Maybank Islamic offers a bigger network and Amex cards but cannot match Bank Islam's printed 3.55% home financing EPR or its pure-play balance sheet. Against CIMB Islamic, Maybank's governance profiles are deeper but CIMB publishes current rates and documented card structure migrations where Maybank's rate pages are stale. Against RHB Islamic and Public Islamic, the trade is the same: Maybank for distribution and governance pedigree, the others for printed numbers.
Pure-play Islamic bank with the cluster's best printed financing rates (3.55% home EPR, 2.10% to 3.92% vehicle grid), but a smaller branch network.
Comparable big-group distribution with far better rate publication (June 2026 FD-i board rates) and stronger card rewards (12% PETRONAS rebate).
Smaller shelf but same-week deposit rate sheets and the best unconditional savings rate (ForU2Save 2.10%).
Bottom Line
Malaysia's biggest Islamic banking franchise with governance to match: five publicly profiled scholars and contracts named on every page. Bank here for reach and rigour, but never accept a rate quoted from memory: the website's numbers are often years old, so demand the PDS.
Read full Maybank Islamic reviewShariah Compliance & Oversight
Maybank Islamic's Shariah Committee is published with full scholar profiles on the bank's site: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aznan Hasan (Chairman since 1 May 2014; President of ASAS, Deputy Chairman of the Securities Commission Shariah Advisory Council, board member of the UAE Higher Shari'ah Authority and AAOIFI committee member), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mohamed Fairooz Abdul Khir (member since 1 May 2013; Securities Commission SAC member), Ustaz Mohd Kamal Mokhtar (member since 1 September 2015; Judge, Shariah Appeal Court of Singapore), Dr. Oni Sahroni (member since 9 July 2018; DSN-MUI Daily Management Board, Indonesia) and Dr. Syahnaz Sulaiman (member since 9 July 2018; Senior Lecturer, USIM) (maybank2u.com.my/Islamic/en/about-us/corporate-profile/shariah-committee.page, crawled 2026-08-06).
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Why It's Halal
The page names the contract explicitly: 'A Shariah-compliant savings account based on contract Qard (loan)' and explains the mechanics (ownership of the money transfers to the bank, which must repay in full). Because the deposit is a loan to the bank, no return is promised; that is the classical safekeeping treatment for Islamic transactional money. Oversight comes from Maybank Islamic's five-scholar Shariah Committee chaired by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aznan Hasan, all named with full profiles on the bank's site. Honest caveat: no savings profit or hibah rate is printed on the product page, and Maybank Islamic's legacy rates page carries 2015-dated tables, so current deposit returns are not verifiable from crawlable text (crawled maybank2u.com.my 2026-08-06).
Regional Availability
Maybank Islamic serves all of Malaysia
✓ Available nationwide including Pahang
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