The short version
Upcial builds websites for licensed financial advisers in Malaysia. Three things belong on an advisory firm’s site that a general corporate site leaves out: the Bank Negara approval stated plainly enough to match against the register, a privacy notice written to the Personal Data Protection Act as amended in 2024, and claim wording that holds up against the conduct standard the Bank sets. We design your homepage and show it to you before any contract exists. RM 12,000 to RM 15,000 for a complete foundation.
The whole licensed field, counted
Both numbers come from Bank Negara’s own published lists, read on 12 September 2026. They are small, and that is the point: your prospect can hold the entire field in one screen, and so can a machine answering a question about it.
Three things an adviser’s website carries that a corporate site skips
A general web studio builds all three of these the way it builds a bakery’s site, because it has read none of the documents. Read the middle column for what it actually means on the page.
| What it is | What it means on the page | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
| The approval, stated plainly | Your registered name, written exactly as Bank Negara writes it, somewhere a visitor finds in one look. A prospect matching you to the register is doing the single highest-intent thing anyone does on your site, and a mismatched trading name stops them. | Bank Negara’s List of Approved Financial Advisers |
| A privacy notice written to the amended Act | An advisory firm takes income, dependants, health and retirement intentions as a matter of course. The 2024 amendment raised the ceiling, added a breach-notification duty and a right to data portability, so a notice drafted against the 2010 baseline describes a law that has moved. | Personal Data Protection Act, as amended in 2024 |
| Claim wording that survives a conduct review | Every sentence about returns, independence or outcomes read once more by somebody asking whether it is fair and impartial. The Bank’s policy document for advisers sets that standard, and a website is the most public place a firm speaks. | BNM, Prudent and Professional Conduct by Financial Advisers, issued 26 April 2022 |
All three are governance work rather than design work, which is why they tend to arrive last or arrive never. We do them at phase three, before a single page is written, and the compliance review is part of the fee rather than an extra line.
What it costs, published
The same three engagements every client of ours sees, and the same fixed fee agreed before any work begins. An advisory firm usually lands in the first.
| Engagement | For a firm where | Fee |
|---|---|---|
| Essential | The website is the place a referred prospect checks you before the first meeting. All nine delivery phases, compliance review, documented handover. | RM 12,000 – 15,000 |
| Premium | The website is a primary credibility signal, carrying a track record and deeper structure. | RM 16,000 – 24,000 |
| Flagship | The website is a board-level asset with custom art direction and its own approval cycle. | RM 28,000+ |
60% to begin the build, after you have seen and approved the concept. The remaining 40% on final sign-off, before go-live. Every build carries a 30-day defect-fix warranty at no charge. The whole card, module by module, sits on the pricing page.
We built one of these in public, and the client let us publish the argument
Pana Harrison is a reinsurance and insurance broking group with offices across Southeast Asia, Lloyd’s-registered since 2009. We designed their homepage first, free, before anything was signed, and showed them two directions on one afternoon. Their site has been live since the end of July. The whole engagement is written up, including the parts that were awkward.