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BRI Bank
Finance
2 min read

Bank Rakyat Indonesia Earmarks Funds For E-commerce

Indonesia’s first digital bank, Bank Rakyat Indonesia announced on Monday that it has earmarked $1 million for Indonesia Mall, an early-stage assisted e-commerce program that aims to help small enterprises open new revenue channels by participating in the…

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Finance
2 min read

Indonesia’s BRI Signs Partnership Agreement With Alipay

Bank Rakyat Indonesia, Indonesia’s biggest state-owned lender, started the year with key strategic announcements, including an alliance with Chinese payment platform Alipay and plans to acquire a local insurance company and a small lender. BRI signed a…

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Finance
1 min read

HSBC Appoints New Chairman for Singapore

HSBC Singapore appointed Mukhtar Hussain as chairman effective this week, the company said in a statement. The local subsidiary of HSBC includes the retail banking and wealth management business in the city-state. It was formed when the bank incorporated its…

BRI Bank
Finance
1 min read

BRI, BCA unveil new digital banking products for Indonesia

In a bid to expand their customer base, state-owned lender Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI) and private lender Bank Central Asia (BCA) have invested in new digital banking products. BRI director Indra Utoyo said the new product was slated to launch before the end…

BRI Bank
Finance
1 min read

BRI Syariah Floats 2.6bn Shares for Rp510/unit

Bank BRI Syariah has been listed as an issuer at the Indonesia Stock Exchange today, May 9. With the code BRIS, BRI released more than 2.6 billion new shares or 27 percent of its paid up capital. BRIS IPO price was set at Rp510 per share. The SOE Ministry’s…

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Finance
1 min read

BRI posts net profit of Rp25.8 trillion

State-owned lender Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI) last year posted a net profit of Rp25.8 trillion, up 2.18 percent from a year earlier. The profit growth was attributable to the banks prudential efforts as indicated by a rise in the ratio of reserves to…

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Finance
3 min read

BRI Launches JCB Platinum Credit Card for Travelers

PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia (Persero) Tbk. (BRI) and PT JCB International Indonesia, a subsidiary of JCB International Co., Ltd., the international operations subsidiary of JCB Co., Ltd. (collectively “JCB”), today announced the launch of the BRI JCB Platinum…

BRI bank
Finance
1 min read

BRI Syariah plans to conduct IPO

PT Bank BRI Syariah, a sharia compliant subsidiary of state lender Bank Rakyat Indonesia, plans to conduct an initial public offering (IPO) of its shares in 2018 to boost alternative funding sources. “During the IPO we will float our shares worth Rp1 trillion…

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Finance
1 min read

BRI Goes Digital for Cashless Society Program

Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI) has been revamping its digital banking services as part of its “cashless society” program and in support of the central bank’s Non-Cash Payment Movement (GNNT), a senior BRI official said last week. BRI Consumer Director Sis Apik…

Bank BRI Bulukumba
Finance
1 min read

BRI records net profit of Rp25.2 trillion

PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia Tbk. made a net profit of Rp25.2 trillion in 2015, representing a 4.5 percent growth from Rp24.2 trillion it made in the previous year. “The growth is driven by an increase in the interest income that reached Rp82.2 trillion,…

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General
3 min read

BRI eyes syndicated loans as it opens Singapore branch

State-owned Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI) will provide syndicated loans as part of a strategy to attract Indonesian companies following the opening of the lender’s branch office in Singapore. The lender will allocate at least US$100 million in the first year to…

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Living
1 min read

Bank Rakyat Indonesia launches country’s first floating bank

Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI) has launched a floating bank to make banking accessible to people residing in remote islands or coastal areas. The bank which has been named Teras BRI Kapal will currently provide its services to the Thousand Islands regency off…