BI Ajak Operator Telekomunikasi Implementasi Bank `Tanpa Kantor`

BI Invites Telecom Companies to Implement `Branchless Banking`

Reporter : Gatot Priyantono
Editor : Cahyani Harzi
Translator : Dhelia Gani


BI Ajak Operator Telekomunikasi Implementasi Bank `Tanpa Kantor`
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Jakarta (B2B) - Bank Indonesia (BI) memberikan kesempatan kepada perusahaan operator telekomunikasi untuk berpartisipasi dalam penerapan bank tanpa kantor (branchless banking).

Deputi Direktur Departemen Pengaturan & Penelitian Bank Indonesia, Pungky Wibowo mengatakan pada tahap awal perusahaan telekomunikasi dan perbankan bisa memberikan layanan transaksi dasar.

Menurutnya, untuk tahap awal otoritas perbankan berharap perusahaan telekomunikasi dan bank dimungkinkan menerapkan branchless banking.

"Soal urusan mereka mau kerja sama, itu business to business saja," kata Pungky, Rabu.

Jakarta (B2B) - Bank Indonesia (BI) provides opportunity for telecommunication (telecom) companies to participate in branchless banking  implementation.

Deputy Director of Management and Research Department, BI, Pungky Wibowo said in the initial phase, telecom companies and banks can provide basic transaction services.

According to him, the central bank will evaluate the regulation for branchless banking implementation after the testing phase is conducted in the middle of this year.

“Most importantly, we will first see how the penetration to unbanked people will go,” he explained.