A proposal for Bank Rakyat

Rakyat
ONE

One banking rail for the co operative bank. A customer app, a business app and a banker console, built on the same spine. Islamic by construction, not by label.

Tabung and Tabung HajiDuitNow QR and tap to pay Shariah screening you can readCDS in two minutes Digital assets, screenedBahasa Melayu and English
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Why now

Three things changed
at the same time.

01

The rails went public

DuitNow QR put instant payment acceptance in every warung in the country. The advantage is no longer having a payment network. It is what you build on top of it.

02

Compliance became a product

Customers who care about Shariah no longer accept a badge. They want to see the contract and the numbers. A bank that shows its work wins a customer that never leaves.

03

Investing arrived on the phone

A generation opened its first brokerage account on a screen, not at a counter. Most of them lost money in year one, and nobody taught them first.

Rakyat ONE is a response to all three at once, on infrastructure Bank Rakyat already has a right to win on.

The unfair advantage

Bank Rakyat is not
trying to earn this trust.
It already has it.

Every digital bank in Malaysia is spending to acquire the customer Bank Rakyat has served for decades. The co operative model, the heartland branch network, the Ar Rahnu franchise, and a member base that thinks of the bank as theirs. None of that can be bought.

Members, not just customers

A co operative owes its members a return and a relationship. Rakyat ONE makes that visible in the product instead of leaving it in the annual report.

A branch network in the heartland

Digital only banks cannot reach Kota Bharu, Sibu or Kota Belud the way a branch does. Command turns that network from a cost line into a distribution advantage.

Ar Rahnu, already the leader

Gold pledge financing is a product other banks struggle to explain. Bank Rakyat can put it in an app and price it in the open.

The proposition

One rail. Three apps.

The same accounts, the same Shariah engine, the same identity check. What changes is who is holding the phone. Build the spine once, and each app is a surface on it rather than a separate programme with its own budget and its own drift.

Infrastructure one · the customer

Rakyat ONE

Everything a member does with money, in one place, in the language they think in.

The card is in the app Freeze it, reveal it, set its limits, spawn a single use virtual card, tap it on a terminal.
Scan and pay, hold to confirm DuitNow QR with a deliberate press and hold, so nobody pays the wrong merchant by reflex.
Every product names its contract Wadiah, Mudharabah, Tawarruq. Printed on the product, not buried in a PDF.
The whole Islamic suite Zakat with the nisab shown, wakaf, sadaqah, Ar Rahnu, hibah and faraid, takaful, qibla and prayer times.
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The feature nobody else can copy

Tabung, and
Tabung Haji.

Malaysians already save in jars, by intention. Rakyat ONE makes the jar a real product, then links the most important one to the pilgrims fund itself.

Save by intention Haji, umrah, korban, aqiqah, a first home, a child's education. Round up the spare change on every payment, or set a monthly amount and forget it.
A hajj that stops being abstract Balance, queue number and estimated year in one screen, with the milestone ladder from the registration threshold to the full package.
The number that changes behaviour Add RM 200 a month and your estimate moves forward about three years. That sentence sells more savings than any campaign.

Tabung Haji screens assume a data and settlement agreement with Lembaga Tabung Haji. That agreement is the largest external dependency in this proposal and is flagged as such in the Shariah dossier rather than glossed over.

The architecture

Compliance you can read,
not a badge you must trust.

Every product declares its contract If a feature cannot name its aqad, it does not ship. The name is on the card, the jar and the receipt.
Blocked at the point of action A counter that fails the screen cannot be bought. The button is dead and the failing ratio is shown. A warning that can be dismissed will be dismissed.
Tainted income separates itself When a screen changes or a charge exceeds actual loss, the income is quarantined, logged as a Shariah event, and disposed of on the Committee's signature.
Fails the Shariah screen
Casino and gaming income
Income from non compliant activity64.8%Limit 5%
Debt over total assets41.2%Limit 33%
Cash over total assets19.4%Limit 33%
Screening follows the Securities Commission Shariah Advisory Council methodology

This is what a customer sees when they tap a counter that does not qualify. Not a refusal, an explanation.

Investing, digital assets and advice

Teach first. Then let
them risk something.

2 min
To open a CDS account. MyKad read over NFC, a liveness check, a risk profile, done inside the app.
RM 50k
Virtual money in training mode, running against real Bursa prices, before a single sen is at risk.
1 tap
To open a digital asset wallet, because the bank already verified who they are. No second onboarding.
0
Guaranteed returns promised anywhere in the product. Rakyat AI explains and refuses to recommend.

Training mode is the differentiator

Most first time investors lose money in year one. A bank that hands them a practice account first is doing something no brokerage app has an incentive to do.

Digital assets, screened per asset

Bitcoin passes. Ethereum passes with staking switched off. A lending protocol earning interest is riba and is not listed. Each verdict is explained in one sentence.

Rakyat AI reads their accounts

Grounded in the customer's own data, aware of the Shariah screen, and honest about volatility. It shows the numbers behind a view and never tells anyone to buy.

Infrastructure two · the business

Rakyat ONE
Bisnes

The same rail, pointed at the merchant. Take money, pay people, prove the books, borrow against what the account already shows.

Accept without a terminal A counter QR, a charged amount, or a contactless card tapped straight onto the phone. Nothing to rent, nothing to install.
e Invoice into MyInvois Issue it, validate it with LHDN, and file it without leaving the app.
Payroll with EPF, SOCSO and PCB One run, with zakat deduction at source for the staff who opt in.
Financing priced off real takings Twelve months of settlements through the account, stress tested, offered as a Tawarruq at a disclosed profit that never grows.
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Infrastructure three · the bank

The console the branch
network actually runs on.

Three seats in one product. Head office sees the network. A branch manager sees a queue and a team. A sales officer sees a pipeline and a target. Each seat sees only what its role permits.

Approvals with a real limit

Within the branch limit, the manager approves. Above it, the only button is refer up. The control is in the interface, not in a memo.

Shariah event register

Open events, income quarantined, the disposal trail. The Committee gets a live screen instead of a quarterly paper.

Mule and scam watch

Accounts flagged before the money moves, with the reason in plain language and the officer's decision recorded.

Ask Command

Which branches are behind, where Tabung Haji is growing fastest, who to call today. Answered from the data the role is allowed to read.

The commercial case

Five lines on the P and L,
not one app launch.

Cheap deposits

Tabung and Tabung Haji auto save turn an intention into a standing instruction. Goal based saving is the stickiest CASA there is, because leaving means abandoning the goal.

Merchant acquisition

Tap to Phone removes the terminal, which removes the reason a small merchant says no. Every merchant on the rail becomes a financing customer with twelve months of proof.

Fee income

Brokerage, digital asset spread, takaful and Ar Rahnu ujrah. Fee lines that do not consume capital the way the financing book does.

Cost to serve

Onboarding, card servicing and applications move off the counter. Branch staff move from processing to selling, which is what Command is built to manage.

Regulatory standing

A live Shariah event register, a real ta widh control and mule screening are the things an examiner asks for. Having them already built is worth more than any feature.

The younger member

Training mode, digital assets and an AI advisor are why a 25 year old opens the app. Tabung Haji is why they stay for forty years.

How it ships

Four phases. Each one
useful on its own.

Phase 1

The spine and the customer app

Accounts, cards, DuitNow QR, tap to pay, Tabung, zakat, and the Shariah contract layer. This is a complete product on its own and it is what the market sees first.

Phase 2

Command, starting with approvals

The branch queue and the Shariah event register go in before the analytics. The workflow that moves money and the control that protects the licence come first.

Phase 3

Bisnes and the merchant rail

Merchant QR, Tap to Phone, e Invoice and payroll. Financing follows once the settlement history exists to price it from.

Phase 4

Invest, digital assets and Tabung Haji

CDS with training mode, the screened wallet, and the Tabung Haji integration once the agreement with Lembaga Tabung Haji is in place.

Phasing is deliberate. The features that need an external agreement sit last, so nothing on the critical path waits on a third party.

The ask

Three working prototypes are
in this document. Not slides
about prototypes.

Everything shown here runs. Scan a QR and pay, tap the card, open a CDS account, top up Tabung Haji, approve a financing application above a branch limit and watch it refuse. Try it in Bahasa Melayu.

6
Working surfaces, one shared rail, one Shariah engine
193
Automated checks passing across the six surfaces
2
Languages, written natively rather than translated

Prepared by UNIVA Group Sdn Bhd. Prototypes use illustrative data and do not represent Bank Rakyat figures, rates or published product terms. Every contract and disclosure requires Shariah Committee approval before it reaches a customer.

Cadangan konsep oleh Univa untuk Program Akselerator Fintech Bank Rakyat. Bukan produk rasmi Bank Rakyat.A Univa concept proposal. Not an official Bank Rakyat product.