CIMB Group is a leading ASEAN universal bank, the largest Asia Pacific (ex-Japan) investment bank and one of the world's largest Islamic banks. The Group is headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and offers consumer banking, wholesale banking, Islamic banking and asset management. It is the fifth largest banking group by assets in Southeast Asia and at the end of 2012 had about 42,000 staff and 13.5 million customers. The Group's retail banking branch network is the widest in the region, with 1,080 retail branches in Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand and Cambodia.