While major banks focus on developing digital banks in-house, fintechs seek partnerships with rural banks (BPRs) to gain market share in digital transactions. The collaboration between fintech lending and BPRs is likely to grow, given the synergies provided by fintechs
During this raise, Gojek will become one of LinkAja’s series B preferred shareholders, with total fund commitments of >US$ 100 million. Gojek Co-CEO, Andre Soelistyo, mentioned that the investment adds payment options to its platform in addition to GoPay, which
Bank Jago, a digital bank, is actively engaging in fintech lending to reach consumers who are difficult to reach by banks. To date, the digital bank has committed to channeling schemes of IDR 100 billion (US$ 6.9 mil) with Akulaku
With the rise in digital transactions and fintech lenders, OJK is catching up to regulate this sector. In early 2021, OJK found as many as 68 illegal non-bank financial sector businesses, consisting of 51 unlicensed P2P lenders and 17 pawn
Effective from 10th February 2021, Bank BKE has changed its name to Bank Seabank Indonesia, after officially acquired by Sea Group’s e-commerce platform Shopee. This effort by Shopee is to grow its payments arm, PayLater, and enter the digital banking
Neobanks, defined as financial technology companies that perform full digital banking services such as credit and deposit services, currently do not exist in Indonesia. Mr. Tony, Deputy Director of Indonesian Banking Architecture at OJK, explained that this is due to
According to research by EIU, commissioned by USAID, fintechs can play an important role in reducing the risk and cost of lending to smallholder farmers, and drive the transition to sustainable agriculture. Smallholders make up one-third of the Southeast Asian
The policies address critical enablers of the financial services ecosystem. These policies cover regulatory sandboxes to enable business model innovation, expanding regulatory scope to include digital financial systems between different parties, e.g: API applications., strengthening human source and research capabilities.
While OJK encourages the productive growth of fintech lending, there are major concerns for misuse of the technology. With effect from 29 January 2021, the new regulation contains 108 pages concerning 9 important areas on anti-money laundering and terrorism financing
Financial Services Authority (OJK) plans to increase fintech lending for productive loans from 35.7% currently to ~60% of total loans disbursed by 2024. Consumer or personal loans currently dominate fintech lending, which have higher risk for bad debts. Productive loans
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