Indonesia

Indonesia widens deposit insurer's role in banking system

It will assist in supervising banks under 'intensive supervision' status.

How Indonesia's biggest bank is pushing MSMEs to go international

Bank BRI recorded $33.5m in transaction value from local MSME exports in 2019.

Bank Central Asia, Cloudera partner for data and machine learning

The banks hopes to streamline processes and protect clients from fraud.

COVID-19 exposes pitfalls in Indonesia's finance sector

NBFIs have been the main source of problematic defaults.

Indonesia mulls returning banking regulation to central bank

The president is reportedly unhappy about the Financial Services Authority's performance.

Indonesia cautions against excessive bank withdrawals

Its banking watchdog assured that the sector is well-capitalised, on aggregate.

Indonesian banks to reflect COVID's fatal impact on Q2 results: Fitch

But the loosening of loan restructuring rules should help alleviate negative effects.

Majority in Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam to transact digitally by 2021

Faster funds transfer can add up to 0.5% in GDP growth for SEA.

Indonesia's Bank Central Asia joins scheme to boost liquidity

The government said healthy lenders can apply to cash-strapped peers.

Indonesian banks face aggravated headwinds as pandemic grows

Restructured loans have grown considerably and will increase further.

ADB inks $300m loan to boost Indonesia's geothermal capacity

It will support the construction and commissioning of two geothermal plants in Java.

COVID-19 spells trouble for Indonesian non-bank finance firms

It will complicate domestic consumption and cash collections, analysts said.

Bank Indonesia eases rate by 25bps

Two more rate cuts may be on the horizon.

Bank BRI unveils digital credit mobile app

It has a flat interest rate of 1.42% monthly or 17.04% annually.

Consolidating the payments game is just step one in Southeast Asia

Whilst the Chinese market is big enough to allow for two major e-payments players, Indonesia needs to unify efforts from otherwise competing tech companies.