Loan Marketing Agency
in Malaysia.

Last updated: August 2026

Client eligibility — read this first

shakalakaa works exclusively with KPKT-licensed moneylenders ("Kredit Komuniti"). We verify licence status directly against KPKT's own records before any engagement begins — not taken on trust, not checked after the fact. If you can't show a current, valid licence, we won't take the work, regardless of budget. This isn't fine print; it's the actual basis this vertical operates on.

Quick answer: Loan marketing in Malaysia for licensed moneylenders is priced per engagement, not a published monthly figure yet — this is a new vertical for us. Since 14 April 2026, Google also requires Financial Services Verification before any financial-services ad can run; we build campaigns around that plus KPKT's Moneylenders Act 1951 permit requirements from the start.

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The Problem

Why Loan Marketing Needs a
Compliance-First Agency.

Nobody in the Malaysia/Singapore agency market currently positions specifically around licensed-moneylender marketing — most agencies either avoid the vertical entirely or treat it like any other lead-gen category, missing the layer of regulation that makes loan advertising genuinely different: a licence to lend and a permit to advertise are two separate approvals, and getting one doesn't cover the other.

We built our free Loan Ad Compliance Checker around exactly this gap — licence status, advertisement permit, and licence-number display are treated as blocking issues in that tool, not just flagged ones, because an unlicensed or unpermitted ad has no compliant version to write.

Platform Compliance

Google's New Verification
Requirement, Handled.

Since 14 April 2026, Google requires in-scope financial-services advertisers targeting Malaysia — personal-loan advertisers and lead generators included — to complete Financial Services Verification before any ad runs at all. This is new enough that many lenders' existing campaigns may not yet be compliant, independent of their KPKT status.

We build FSV into campaign setup from the start, alongside the platform's Personal Loans policy requirement to disclose total loan cost — fees included — on the landing page, not just the headline rate.

Regulatory Grounding

Built Around the
Moneylenders Act 1951.

Campaign builds are grounded in the actual statute — the Moneylenders Act 1951 requires a separate advertisement permit from the Registrar for every ad (not just a licence to lend), prohibits any implication of a banking relationship, and KPKT's own guideline prescribes a specific advertisement format for Kredit Komuniti operators. See the loan advertising compliance guide for exactly what this means for your ad copy, or run existing copy through the free Loan Ad Checker.

FAQ

Frequently Asked
Questions.

No. We work exclusively with KPKT-licensed moneylenders ("Kredit Komuniti"), verified before any engagement begins — not taken on trust, not checked after the fact. If a lender can't show a current, valid licence, we don't take the work, regardless of budget.
This is a new vertical for shakalakaa, so we don't yet have a verified cost benchmark to publish the way we do for our other regulated verticals — pricing is quoted per engagement once licence status is confirmed and scope is clear, rather than a rounded monthly figure we can't yet back with real account data.
Yes. Since 14 April 2026, Google requires financial-services advertisers targeting Malaysia — including personal-loan advertisers — to complete Financial Services Verification before ads can run. We build this into the campaign setup, not as an afterthought.
Every individual advertisement needs its own permit from the Registrar of Moneylenders under the Moneylenders Act 1951, on top of the lender's own licence — a licensed lender can still be advertising illegally if a specific ad was never permitted. We build campaigns around that requirement from day one.

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