Christopher Yap

Christopher Yap steers AmBank Group’s Business Banking division with core focus on growing the Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) and Commercial Banking segments. He takes charge of strategy development and execution to expand the Group’s presence and market share in the entrepreneurial and SME sector through market responsive products, business efficiency solutions, development programs and service excellence.

Since his appointment, Business Banking achieved a compound annual growth rate of 26% for loans, and a total corresponding revenue at 22%. Several initiatives were introduced to help SMEs scale and growth through the AmBank BizCLUB – reaching 12,000 SMEs to date. In FY22, the AmBank BizRACE focused on the deployment of Industry 4.0 and Digitalisation amongst SMEs by providing technical expertise through subject matter experts as well as grant handholding support.

The program helped garner close to RM19 million in smart automation grants being approved for participants. Through these efforts, AmBank has received 10 awards for the Best SME Bank in Malaysia from various organizations since 2018.