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To subscribe to the magazine, click here . Critics say some of the super banks will be susceptible to government pressure, thus weakening the financial system rather than strengthening it. By S. Jayasankaran. Bankers who stand to lose money and power from Malaysia's forced mergers include Rashid Hussain, head of the country's second-largest bank, and Tong Kooi Ong, the majority owner of its most technologically innovative bank. Both men had close ties to former Deputy Premier Anwar Ibrahim.