You need a savings account to start saving money in the bank. Similarly, you need a brokerage account to start stock investing in Malaysia.
In this article, I’m going to provide a step-by-step guide on how to register an M+ Online (Malacca Securities) brokerage account in Malaysia
By the way, this is not a sponsored post for M+ Online. I genuinely like to use it and hence write an article about it.
p/s:
After I wrote the article about “Bursa Anywhere“, I realized that we don’t get our brokerage account automatically. We need to manually register a brokerage account even when we registered a CDS account from Bursa Anywhere.
In other words, there is no proper integration between Bursa Anywhere and the ADA (aka brokerage firms). Hence I wrote this article for readers who already read my Bursa Anywhere article.
Prerequisite for the Trading Account Application
- Front & Back IC (2 Images)
- Your Bank Statement (Joint Account is Not Allowed)
- RM11 (RM10 CDS opening fee, RM0.50 admin fee, RM0.50 refundable fee)
For the bank statement, please prepare it in image format (jpg, png). You will find errors when you upload it in PDF format. It took me half an hour to realize that PDF format is not supported.
Get Started
To register a new trading account from M+ Online, just visit their official website and click proceed.
You will then prompt to fill in your IC number, email address, and phone number. These information will be used to check if you are a new user.
Step 1: Personal Particular
As the first step, you will key in your personal details. Here is the information you will be expected to provide:
- CDS Account
- Basic information such as gender, race, marital status
- Address as per NRIC
- Employment details (company name, annual gross income)
- IC Attachment (Front and Back)
- Investment Risk Profile
For Those Who Already Registered a CDS Account
There is a part where you need to mention if you already have a CDS account. If you came from my Bursa Anywhere article and already registered one, then choose “Yes”.
Investment Risk Profile
In case you have no idea how to fill in the investment risk profile, you can refer to mine in the image above.
Step 2: Spouse Detail
If you are married, you will need to key in some basic information about your spouse, such as her employment details.
If you are single, then you will be directly skipped into Step 3.
Step 3: Financial Particular
In this step, you need to attach your bank statement. Other than checking your name, bank name and account number in the statement, make sure your statement is not in PDF form.
Step 4: Summary & Confirmation
This is the final step before you pay the fees. So make sure every detail you filled in is accurate.
Declaration
This is part of Step 4 where we need to do some declaration. You may refer to what I answered in the image above.
Step 5: Pay The Fees
As I mentioned above, you need to pay RM11 for the registration. (RM0.50 will be refunded to you)
To be safe, you should use the same bank account as the statement to pay the registration fee. If you used the wrong account, they won’t refund you the money. Speaking from experience here.
Waiting for Approval
After successful payment, the approval may take around 2 to 3 weeks. When your account is approved, you will receive 3 emails from Malacca Securities.
Their agent will also contact you via WhatsApp. You just need to follow the instruction provided by the agent, and you will have your own brokerage account to start your DIY stock investing journey! Yay!
Related Article: 10 Important Things to Know Before You Invest in Stock Market
Summary
Honestly, the whole process of registering an M+ Online brokerage account online is really simple. This is not available when I started my investing journey in 2019.
So new investors nowadays are really lucky to be able to open a brokerage account online.
Meanwhile, please do not register a CDS account via Bursa Anywhere if you plan to register an account from Malacca Securities. You have to pay double the fee for CDS account registration. Despite the customer support from M+ told me that it will be refunded, they never did.
Instead, register both trading account and CDS account from the M+ Online website. You don’t have to apply for a CDS account again from Bursa Anywhere.
This is a short article where I only cover account registration. If you are interested to learn more about how to use the M+ Online app, feel free to comment in the blog below. I’ll write one if there are demands.
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Hi,
How to update my address in the M+ online platform?
Hi, I’m not sure. You may need to check with the customer support for M+ Online.
Marcus,
you did not reply to my enquiry after so many days.
may be you can provide an email for faster contact.
Hi Marcus,
Is your dashboard still available? if so, as you said it is free, so can i have one? the other day when i called up Malacca securities, i was told my CDS account cannot be used with their security. i was told every security needs to have a different CDS account. In Malacca security, do i need to open the CDS account and brokerage account separately? thank you.
can I use the dashboard for online transactions with malacca securities
in future? my CDS account is from Kenanga Investment Bank, so can it be used for my registration with this security?
Hi Ritchie, I assume you are referring to the stock dashboard I made.
You can use that with any stock transaction with any brokerage, so yes you can use it with malacca securities.
The CDS account can be used to register other Malaysian brokerage as well, so no worry.
Your article is clean and easy to understand for beginner (like me). Keep it up!
Thanks Fatimah for your compliment! I will continue to provide more useful information about investing for beginners 🙂
Hi Marcus,
Will they accept a crossed front and back IC? Thanks.
Hi, they probably will as they did not mention that it must be a clean copy.
Let me know if they don’t accept it.
Hi Marcus, great article. I just wanted to ask,
1. When we register for M+ online and CDS account with M+, will it be direct or nominee account?
2. If we already have a direct CDS account with Bursa, is there anyway to integrate them with M+?
Thank you.
Hi,
1) M+ Online is a direct account.
2) Just follow this guide and choose “I already have a CDS Account”.
Thank you. Appreciate it. Stay safe
You’re welcome! Stay safe and stay healthy!
Hi Marcus, I just came across your article and found it very helpful indeed. Just a quick question, if I already have a direct CDS account from UOB Kay Hian (or let say from any other brokerage for that matter) can I use that CDS account in a new application for M+ trading account?
Hi Zulkify. Absolutely! You can use the same CDS account to apply for new trading account from other Malaysian direct brokers such as M+
Hi Mr Marcus. Can you sharing more about the M+ platform. Do this platform provide the exposure towards foreign market like USA
Hi Amir, M+ Online can let us trade US stocks and ETFs, but we need to make a further request to the remisier. I’m not sure about the process as I didn’t do it.
Luckily I came by your website again before registering my CDS account. I have been following your blogs and Instagram for sometime already and they are very helpful for me (I am a newbie) to understand about investment.
Wow! Really happy that I can help out!
Thanks for following me and I will keep on provide great content for new investors 🙂
i am very new in investment world and your article is so much help guiding me through. please kindly share an article on how to use m+ apps alsooo please!
Hi Khyra, thanks for reading! I’m glad I can help!
Will definitely consider writing an article about how to use the M+ app. 🙂