Indonesia

Shopee parent Sea acquires Indonesia's Bank BKE

The tech startup has raised $3b in stock offering for its business expansion plans.

Shopee parent Sea acquires Indonesia's Bank BKE

The tech startup has raised $3b in stock offering for its business expansion plans.

Indonesia's BRI to raise $1b in rights issue

It wants to strengthen its capital base for possible acquisitions.

Indonesia's Bank Mandiri face lower margins, climbing NPLs

The lender’s net interest margin contracted by 65 bp in H1 2020.

Indonesia's Ayoconnect raises $5m in pre-Series B funding round

The fintech firm hopes to build an open bill network in the country.

UOB floats TMRW in Indonesia

The digibank was first rolled out in Thailand in 2019.

Recession hounds APAC financial firms as pandemic batters credits

The outbreak will permanently reduce the economy by 2-3%.

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.