It is located in Bukit Kiara, near the National Science Centre of Kuala Lumpur.

On 1 March 1993, the Securities Commission Malaysia was established as a self-funded statutory body.

The body functions to serve as the authority in developing and maintenance of a secure, efficient and orderly operations of the capital markets in Malaysia.

[1][2] In 2009 the commission and the Central Bank of Malaysia established the Asian Institute of Finance.

[5] With Bursa Malaysia, they introduced Electronic Share Payment for e-payment of stock market transactions, and e-Dividend; both were announced in the 2010 budget.