Malaysia must return to raising funds from global capital markets, Zeti Akhtar Aziz, the governor of the Bank Negara Malaysia, said in a television interview on Friday.

Speaking in Kuala Lumpur to Bloomberg Television, a financial broadcaster, Zeti noted that the Southeast Asian country had not sold traditional government paper or sukuk, a type of Shari'ah law compliant bond, to overseas investors for a considerable period. "[Therefore,] we have encouraged the government to do so because it's