KUALA LUMPUR (April 2): Malayan Banking Bhd (Maybank), Malaysia’s most-valuable listed group, said there will be a system downtime tomorrow and on Sunday for some its services, including Maybank2u and Internet-based banking offerings, besides the group’s automated teller machines (ATMs) and cheque deposit machines.

Maybank, however, did not specify the reasons behind the planned downtime for the group’s services, which include the MAE app and QRPay app.

"To minimise any inconvenience during this period, please perform your transactions in advance. We apologise for any inconvenience caused,” Maybank said in an announcement on its website.

Maybank has structured the planned downtime of its services into three segments, comprising early tomorrow morning and late tomorrow evening, besides another portion involving service disruption between tomorrow morning and Sunday evening.

For early tomorrow morning, Maybank said Maybank2u, Maybank2u Biz, the Maybank2u MY app and MAE app will be unavailable from 12am to 3am.

For late tomorrow evening, Maybank said Maybank2u and online payments, the Maybank2u MY app, MAE app, QRPay app, Premier Wealth app, FPX payment, debit card transactions, ATMs, smart recycle machines and cheque deposit machines will be unavailable from 11.30pm to 11.59pm.

For the remaining downtime segment between 7am tomorrow until 8pm on Sunday, Maybank2u Online Stocks and Maybank Trade will be unavailable.

On Bursa Malaysia today, Maybank’s share price was unchanged at RM8.25 at 11.39am, giving it a market capitalisation of about RM92.73 billion.

Maybank, with 1.02 million shares traded so far today, has 11.24 billion issued shares, according to the group’s latest quarterly financial report.