Malaysian Trust Company · Trust Companies Act 1949
The steady hand behind Malaysian legacies and mandates.
Teras acts as trustee for families protecting what they have built, and for institutions that need assets held by a neutral party. Two mandates, one standard of stewardship — delivered on a platform built this decade, not retrofitted to it.
- Independent
- Independent
- Perpetual
- Perpetual
- API-first
- API-first
We hold assets. We do not manage money or sell products.
A corporate trustee carries the mandate without interruption.
Instruct, verify and report through your own systems.
A registered trust company under the Trust Companies Act 1949, incorporated to act as executor, trustee and custodian.
What we do
Two distinct practices, held to the same fiduciary standard.
Retail
Personal Trust
For individuals and families who want their wishes carried out exactly, without their heirs facing years of frozen assets.
- Wasiat & conventional will writing
- Private and testamentary trusts
- Hibah Amanah for Muslim clients
- Estate administration & probate support
Institutional
Corporate Trust
For companies, platforms and boards that need a neutral party holding funds or documents — and an audit trail their counterparties will accept.
- Escrow and stakeholder accounts
- Document and asset custody
- Security agency for lenders
- Digital trustee and API integration
Digital trustee
Trusteeship that speaks to your systems, not just your lawyers.
Most trust work still moves by letter, wet signature and reconciliation after the fact. We built Teras the other way round: a licensed fiduciary with an API in front of it, so holding, releasing and reporting on assets happens in the same flow as the transaction itself.
Trustee API
Open an escrow, release a milestone, lodge a beneficiary change — programmatically, from your own platform, with every call signed and logged.
Digital instruments
Deeds, instructions and consents executed and stored digitally, with a timestamped chain of custody from signature to distribution.
Verifiable records
Beneficiaries, auditors and counterparties can confirm what is held and on what terms, without waiting on a quarterly statement.
Why a trust company
Continuity is the whole point of a trustee.
A corporate trustee does not die
An individual executor can predecease you, emigrate, or fall out with the family. A licensed trust company carries the mandate without interruption.
Assets segregated by law
Trust property is held separately from the company balance sheet and is not available to our creditors. Client accounts are reconciled every business day.
No conflict to manage
We do not manage money, sell investments or lend. Our only interest in a mandate is that the instrument is followed exactly as written.
How it works
From first meeting to final distribution.
Step 1
Consultation
We map your assets, dependants and intentions — or for institutions, the mandate and deed structure.
Step 2
Structuring
We recommend the instrument that fits: a will, a living trust, a hibah, or the appropriate trusteeship arrangement.
Step 3
Execution
Documents are drafted, witnessed and placed in safekeeping. Deeds are lodged with the relevant authority.
Step 4
Administration
When the trust takes effect we act — distributing to beneficiaries or releasing on condition, and reporting throughout.
Speak with a trust officer
A confidential, no-obligation discussion about your estate or your corporate mandate.