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OVO Gandeng Bareksa dan Manulife Luncurkan Fitur Investasi

Platform pembayaran dan dompet digital OVO hari ini (26/1) meluncurkan fitur terbarunya “Invest” bekerja sama dengan Bareksa dan Manulife. Reksa dana pasar uang menjadi produk pertama dari sinergi ini, menargetkan kaum milennials yang baru mulai menjajaki dunia investasi.

Presiden Direktur OVO sekaligus Co-Founder/CEO Bareksa Karaniya Dharmasaputra mengungkapkan, “Peluncuran fitur Invest adalah bagian dari komitmen kami untuk membuka akses yang terjangkau, terpercaya, dan nyaman dalam pengelolaan investasi, khususnya bagi investor pemula. Produk yang kami sediakan secara eksklusif di platform OVO adalah reksa dana pasar uang Manulife OVO Bareksa Likuid (MOBLI) yang dikelola oleh Manulife Aset Manajemen Indonesia, salah satu perusahaan manajemen investasi terbesar di dunia.”

Mengacu pada data Otoritas Jasa Keuangan (OJK), Indeks Inklusi Keuangan di Indonesia saat ini mencapai 76,2 persen. Sementara tingkat literasi keuangan menunjukkan angka yang masih rendah yaitu sebesar 38,0 persen dengan hanya 1,7 persen yang masuk ke area pasar modal. Untuk menjawab tantangan dan permasalahan tersebut, OVO didukung Bareksa sebagai Agen Penjual Efek Reksa Dana (APERD) menciptakan terobosan baru dengan melakukan integrasi e-money dan e-investment.

Sebelum ini, beberapa platform investasi juga lakukan integrasi dengan berbagai layanan digital konsumer. Misalnya yang dilakukan Pluang dengan masuk ke ekosistem Dana dan Gojek. Bahkan saking tingginya minat pasar terhadap investasi reksa dana, Bukalapak juga telah membentuk unit usaha tersendiri yang fokus ke segmen tersebut.

“Sebagaimana halnya kita lihat pada integrasi Alipay dan Yu’e Bao di China, yang telah mencatatkan sukses besar dalam mengenalkan investasi reksa dana secara masif di kalangan milenial. Dalam mengembangkan terobosan ini, kami telah berkonsultasi dengan Bank Indonesia (BI) dan OJK. Untuk itu, kami berterima kasih atas dukungan BI dan OJK yang pro-inovasi dan visioner dalam pemanfaatan tekfin bagi peningkatan inklusi keuangan dan pendalaman pasar keuangan kita,” jelas Karaniya.

Reksa dana pasar uang MOBLI tersedia secara eksklusif di aplikasi OVO. Para pengguna yang sudah memperbarui layanan akan menemukan fitur “Invest” di halaman utama OVO. Setelah masuk ke dalam fitur “Invest”, pengguna hanya perlu mengisi profil resiko serta menunggu proses verifikasi dan bisa langsung mematok nominal yang ingin di-invest mulai dari Rp10 ribu.

Selain menawarkan kemudahan dan kenyamanan bertransaksi [belanja, membayar tagihan, dll] dan berinvestasi dalam satu platform, keunggulan lainnya adalah proses pencairan instan, yang memungkinkan investor dapat mencairkan investasi mereka langsung ke saldo OVO Cash.

Salah satu Financial coach yang ikut hadir dalam acara peluncuran OVO “Invest”, Philip Mulyana turut menyatakan bahwa investasi reksa dana juga dapat menjadi salah satu opsi tabungan dana darurat yang baik untuk investor pemula. Pertimbangannya adalah reksa dana pasar uang merupakan salah satu instrumen investasi yang paling aman namun memberikan retur yang lumayan.

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Finarya's e-money license was issued by Bank Indonesia in March 4th, 2019

Finarya, Linkaja Management Company, Officially Obtained BI’s E-Money License

PT Fintek Karya Nusantara or Finarya, Linkaja’s organizer, is officially obtained e-money license issued by Bank Indonesia (BI). Finarya has submitted for license in February 21st, 2019 on letter no. 21/65/DKSP/Srt/B.

Finarya has been operating since February 22nd, 2019 with Tcash merger into LinkAja. The interesting thing, this is a new license and not the one owned by Telkomsel’s Tcash.

LinkAja is a QR Code-based payment system managed by four partnered state-owned banks (Mandiri, BNI, BRI, and BTN), Telkomsel, Jiwasraya Insurance, and Pertamina. Telkomsel is the biggest shareholder and Danu Wicaksana, Tcash’s CEO is appointed as Finarya’s Director.

Currently, the digital payment app conversion under the State-owned Banks Community (Himbara) into LinkAja, such as E-cash (Bank Mandiri), T-Bank (BRI), UnikQu and Yap! (BNI) is to be finalized in late March.


Original article is in Indonesian, translated by Kristin Siagian

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Izin penyelenggaraan layanan e-money oleh Finarya dikeluarkan Bank Indonesia pada 4 Maret 2019

Finarya, Perusahaan Pengelola LinkAja, Resmi Kantongi Lisensi E-Money dari BI (UPDATED)

PT Fintek Karya Nusantara atau Finarya, penyelenggara layanan e-money LinkAja, resmi mengantongi lisensi uang elektronik yang dikeluarkan Bank Indonesia (BI). Finarya tercatat telah mengajukan izin sebagai penyelenggara emoney LinkAja pada 21 Februari 2019 dengan surat No. 21/65/DKSP/Srt/B.

Finarya sendiri telah efektif beroperasi sejak 22 Februari 2019 dengan peleburan layanan Tcash ke dalam aplikasi LinkAja. Menariknya lisensi ini adalah lisensi baru dan bukan merupakan lisensi Tcash yang dimiliki oleh Telkomsel.

LinkAja merupakan sistem pembayaran berbasis Quick Response (QR) Code yang dikelola kongsi empat bank BUMN (Mandiri, BNI, BRI, dan BTN), Telkomsel, Asuransi Jiwasraya, Pertamina, dan terakhir Danareksa. Telkomsel menjadi pemilik saham terbesar perusahaan ini dan Danu Wicaksana, CEO Tcash, menjadi Direktur Finarya.

Saat ini konversi aplikasi pembayaran digital milik Himpunan Bank Milik Negara (Himbara) ke LinkAja, seperti E-cash (Bank Mandiri), T-Bank (BRI), UnikQu dan Yap! (BNI) ditargetkan rampung akhir Maret ini. LinkAja disebutkan bakal resmi beroperasi penuh di pertengahan April 2019.

Dengan masuknya Danareksa ke dalam susunan pemegang saham Finarya, Telkomsel akan mengantongi 25 persen, diikuti BNI, BRI, dan Mandiri masing-masing 20 persen. Baik BTN dan Pertamina memiliki 7 persen, sedangkan Jiwasraya dan Danareksa masing-masing 0,5 persen.

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Danu Wicaksana, Herman Suharto saat peresmian aplikasi TCASH / TCASH

TCASH Sementara Hentikan Rencana “Spin Off” dari Telkomsel

Mengusung tema #Semuabisa, TCASH berharap dibukanya kesempatan bagi pengguna operator telekomunikasi di luar Telkomsel (multioperator) untuk menggunakan layanannya bisa menambah jumlah pengguna minimal 20%. TCASH juga mengungkapkan pihaknya sementara menghentikan rencana spin off dari Telkomsel.

CEO TCASH Danu Wicaksana menegaskan, meskipun sudah bisa digunakan oleh pengguna operator lain sejak akhir Juni lalu, TCASH masih melakukan kegiatan sosialiasi dan melakukan perbaikan layanan sebelum peresmian hari ini. TCASH juga secara agresif menambah jumlah merchant untuk memberikan pilihan yang lebih beragam.

“Selama ini kami banyak mendapat pertanyaan dari merchant terkait dengan terbatasnya pengguna kepada pelanggan Telkomsel saja. Dengan dibukanya TCASH untuk semua operator, kami mendapatkan feedback yang cukup baik dari merchant-merchant baru kami,” kata Danu.

Sementara hentikan rencana spin off

Danu Wicaksana sebelumnya sempat menginformasikan rencana TCASH untuk keluar dari layanan operator induknya, yaitu Telkomsel. Rencana spin off tersebut diklaim bisa mempercepat pertumbuhan bisnis TCASH sebagai platform pembayaran multi operator. Namun, di kesempatan hari ini, Danu memastikan saat ini tidak akan keluar dari Telkomsel.

“TCASH tidak memiliki rencana untuk berdiri sendiri dan keluar dari otoritas dan legalitas Telkomsel. Demi memanfaatkan sumber daya, aset, dan data yang ada, TCASH akan terus menjadi bagian dari Telkomsel,” kata Danu.

Danu menambahkan, meskipun saat ini menghentikan rencana spin off, TCASH tetap menerapkan kultur perusahaan yang agile, seperti yang biasa diterapkan banyak startup.

Ragam fitur baru

Selain bisa digunakan untuk pembayaran transportasi Blue Bird, pembayaran di pasar tradisional, dan di Pertamina, saat ini TCASH juga sudah bisa digunakan sebagai platform pembayaran dan transaksi cash-in dan cash-out di gerai Indomaret dan Alfamart. Untuk gerai Family Mart dan Circle K, layanan yang tersedia adalah cash-in dan pembayaran.

“Ke depannya kami juga akan menambah layanan lain. Salah satu rencana yang dalam waktu dekat akan diimplementasikan adalah menyematkan aplikasi TCASH di feature phone yang saat ini masih banyak digunakan oleh masyarakat di Indonesia,” kata Danu.

Sementara itu, meskipun sudah menerapkan penggunaan QR Code untuk transaksi, belum semua merchant yang bergabung menerima pembayaran menggunakan QR Code. Penggunaan NFC dan mesin EDC yang merupakan ciri khas TCASH masih banyak diimplementasikan.

“Kalau untuk merchant nasional kebanyakan masih menggunakan EDC untuk pembayaran, namun untuk smartphone Android bisa mengaktifkan fitur NFC di smartphone mereka,” kata Danu.

Danu menambahkan tidak semua smartphone Android yang memiliki fitur tersebut. Untuk itu disarankan pengguna baru yang tidak memiliki stiker NFC, bisa melakukan pemesanan stiker tersebut melalui situs TCASH.

“Sesuai dengan misi TCASH yaitu tidak hanya ingin mengajak orang melakukan pembayaran secara non tunai, tapi TCASH juga ingin mendukung program pemerintah untuk penggunaan uang non tunai di kalangan masyarakat,” tutup Danu.

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Tri management board in the launching of Keep On / DailySocial

Tri Indonesia Discontinues E-Money Development

Following the submission of an application for e-money license to Bank Indonesia, Tri Indonesia decides to stop pursuing its development. The decision is corroborated by Dolly Susanto, Tri Indonesia’s Chief Commercial Officer, in the grand launching of “Keep On” internet plan in Jakarta.

“Previously, we’ve prepared to launch e-money service, but since the issuance of Bank Indonesia’s new regulation three weeks ago which requires 51% license owned by the local company, the plan should be discontinued.”

Tri is majority owned (65%) by Hutchison Whampoa and the rest belongs to PT Tiga Telekomunikasi as the local investor.

The e-money platform that was going to be developed by Tri is part of business expansion to enhance &Co marketplace and Bima+ platform. Using e-money based scheme, Tri expects to develop that payment option.

“Although the plan is discontinued, it’s still possible for Tri to collaborate with relevant partners and, of course, already owned a license,” he said.

Carrier billing

Tri also announces partnerships with a popular music and video streaming app in Indonesia. They are JOOX, Spotify, Viu, HOOQ, Mobile Legends, Deezer, and Google Play. As additional options for users, Tri also provides carrier billing.

“Indeed, we previously announce partnerships with Keep On (internet plan) of Tri. All those options are [still] all available for Tri users,” he added.

According to the data compilation, 70% of Tri’s internet consumption are for video streaming, and 30% are for music streaming.

“We also record the increase of mobile games using Tri’s network. Aside from using Bima+, users can also buy games directly from Google Play,” Susanto mentioned.

Tri claims currently has 33 million users, 80% of those are millennials.


Original article is in Indonesian, translated by Kristin Siagian

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Jajaran manajemen Tri saat peluncuran paket Keep On / DailySocial

Operator Seluler Tri Hentikan Pengembangan E-money

Setelah sebelumnya sempat mengajukan izin lisensi uang elektronik (e-money) ke Bank Indonesia, operator seluler Tri Indonesia (Tri) menghentikan upaya mereka untuk pengembangan layanan tersebut. Keputusan ini ditegaskan oleh Chief Commercial Officer Tri Indonesia Dolly Susanto saat acara peluncuran paket data “Keep On” hari ini di Jakarta.

“Sebelumnya memang kami sudah menyiapkan diri untuk meluncurkan layanan e-money, namun setelah terbitnya peraturan baru dari BI sekitar tiga minggu lalu yang menyebutkan bahwa 51% lisensi harus dimiliki oleh perusahaan lokal, rencana tersebut harus kami hentikan.”

Tri sendiri saat ini dimiliki oleh Hutchison Whampoa dengan komposisi saham 65%, sedangkan sisanya dimiliki oleh Tiga Telekomunikasi sebagai investor lokal.

Awalnya e-money yang rencananya bakal dikembangkan oleh Tri merupakan bagian dari perluasan bisnis menyasar marketplace &Co dan Bima+. Dengan skema pembayaran berbasis e-money, Tri berharap bisa mengembangkan pilihan pembayaran tersebut.

“Meskipun rencana tersebut dihentikan, tidak menutup kemungkinan Tri nantinya akan menjalin kolaborasi dengan mitra yang relevan dan tentunya telah memiliki izin tersebut,” kata Dolly.

Menambah jumlah kemitraan

Dalam kesempatan tersebut Tri juga meresmikan kemitraan dengan aplikasi streaming video dan musik populer di Indonesia. Aplikasi yang kini bekerja sama di antaranya JOOX, Spotify, Viu, HOOQ, Mobile Legends, Deezer dan Google Play. Untuk memberikan pilihan lebih kepada pengguna, Tri juga menyediakan pembelian potong pulsa (carrier billing) penggunaan aplikasi tersebut.

“Memang sebelumnya kami sudah mengumumkan kerja sama dengan aplikasi yang ada saat ini, namun dengan paket data Keep On dari Tri, semua pilihan tersebut sudah disematkan langsung khusus kepada pengguna Tri,” kata Dolly.

Saat ini Tri mengklaim mengalami peningkatan penggunaan kuota internet. Dari data yang dirangkum, sebanyak 70% penggunaan internet lebih kepada video streaming, sementara 30% adalah music streaming.

“Kami juga mencatat peningkatan penggunaan mobile games memanfaatkan kuota internet Tri. Selain memanfaatkan Bima+, pengguna juga bisa membeli permainan langsung dari Google Play,” kata Dolly.

Saat in Tri mengklaim telah memiliki sekitar 33 juta pengguna. Sebanyak 80% di antaranya adalah kalangan millenial. Dengan pilihan baru tersebut diharapkan pengguna yang ada bisa lebih banyak memanfaatkan layanan pembayaran potong pulsa dari Tri.

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QR Code’s Implementation for Payment and Its Regulations in Indonesia

Payment methods began to evolve in recent years. One of the most widely used is QR Code (Quick Response Code) payment. By installing the application supported by the payment provider, users can complete the transaction by scanning the QR Code. This method is expected to give transaction experience in an easier way. The latest development occurred is Bank Indonesia to issue the regulations of QR Code standard. It is also being discussed by Payment System Association of Indonesia (ASPI).

This technology is not only developed by payment provider startups but also being considered by other payment service providers; one of which is MasterCard Indonesia. MasterCard Indonesia starts to introduce the technology this year, to reach enterprise industries in areas with no EDC technology. MasterCard Indonesia will play a role as payment facilitator for banks.

Beside Mastercard Indonesia, Bank Mandiri was also reviewing the QR Code application for payment in November. As quoted from Kontan’s Senior Vice President Retail and Transaction Banking, Thomas Wahyudi, eventually the payment with QR Code would have its own segment wider than Bank Mandiri’s e-money or e-cash, because QR Code payment is different from other electronic money which balance needed a top-up before making a transaction.

“The segment will expand, the source of fund can be varied, but the payment method will use QR Code,” said Wahyudi.

Other banks are also interested in using QR Code as payment method. BCA and BTN is reportedly preparing QR Code payment method as one of payment facilities.

The application of QR Code technology also seized Bank Indonesia attention. Last November, quoted from Tempo, Bank Indonesia arranged financial transaction using QR Code. The regulation is targeted to be finished in early 2018. This regulation is expected to guarantee consumer protection amid the widespread transactions using QR Code in Indonesia. However, there has been no further details about the form and the regulation.

Meanwhile, the news on QR Code standardization was conveyed by Tcash’s CEO, Danu Wicaksana. In IndoTelko news, Wicaksana revealed that he and ASPI were still discussing about the standardization. It is declared more efficient given that during this time, QR Code players issued their own QR Code.

For additional information, Singapore Payment Council (SPC) has authorized QR Code specification to facilitate electronic payments. SGQR (Singapore Quick Response) system was designed by industry groups. They applied international QR Code protocols to match the needs. It was applied in consideration of improving interoperability between services and ensuring wider acceptance.


Original article is in Indonesian, translated by Kristin Siagian

Using OVO’s E-Money License, GrabPay is Now Back in Service

Grab is making use of OVO’s e-money license to get GrabPay back in service. It’s fully available per (12/14), after being temporarily frozen by Bank Central since October 16th, 2017.

“Starting today, Grab customer can top-up GrabPay credits and using it,” said GrabPay Southeast Asia’s Managing Director Jason Thompson, quoted from Katadata.

The return of GrabPay cannot be separated from company collaboration under Lippo Group. OVO is already has e-money license from Bank Indonesia since August 22, 2017 with PT Visionet International as legal entity. Before the collaboration with OVO, Grab also provided delivery logistic for MatahariMall.

Following GrabPay’s return (with new branding “GrabPay, powered by OVO”), Grab customer can now top-up in many ways, by driver, supermarket, local bank and ATM, also credit card.

Besides providing online payment options, Grab and OVO will collaborate in using their partnership technology and network to develop a finest and safest mobile payment platform following customer’s demand.

OVO is not only capable of various financial transaction such as merchant payment, top-up and check balance. It also provides loyalty program in every transaction with partnered merchants.

“E-money license given to OVO provides a great opportunity for us in creating
various financial solution to get involved in Indonesia’s National Cashless
Movement (GNNT) development. We will continue to approach customers, merchants and regulators, to provide innovative e-money products and services following customer’s dynamic needs,” OVO’s CEO, Adrian Suherman, said a while ago.


Original article is in Indonesian, translated by Kristin Siagian

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T-CASH’s Achievement This Year And Its Transformation in 2018

T-CASH is practically known as inseparable part of Telkomsel. To guarantee all T-CASH services are available to public, T-CASH’s CEO Danu Wicaksana explained T-CASH’s achievement and future plans.

“Today we want to announce the latest information about T-CASH which in the past year has gained active users four times higher focus on two market segments, micro and lifestyle.”

Previously, Wicaksana has mentioned about T-CASH to be an agnostic service. The plan is in 2018’s first quarter, T-CASH will be available for public use.

“By this plan, we expect to be an independent mobile money service and ready to collaborate, not only with other telco operators but also corporate and government,” Wicaksana said.

By being agnostic product, T-CASH target is to gain massive new users outside of Telkomsel users.

Focus on the growth of mobile app users

Since its launching, T-CASH now has 10 million registered users, 60 million annual transactions and claims the 90% users have a good experience using T-CASH.

Of the four user interfaces T-CASH (USSD, NFC Sticker, Mobile App and Web-Check Out) owned, most users still go with USSD in using T-CASH. Mobile app users are considered insignificant.

It is now become T-CASH’s next focus to change usage perception in the form of sticker and USSD.

“We aware of all Indonesian users, not everyone has compatible smartphone to use T-CASH mobile app, it causes SMS-based USSD is still dominant. However, we eagerly need to encourage mobile app usage in the future,” said Wicaksana.

For T-CASH top up, usually called CICO (Cash-In-Cash-Out), mostly used by users are ATM, modern retail (Indomaret and merchants), Telkomsel Grapari and T-CASH Bang.

“In addition, we begins to receive lots of funding initiated by government, corporate to remittance using T-CASH,” added Wicaksana.

Provide lending to enterprises

With new concept developed over the past year, T-CASH has six framework strategies, among those are focus to airtime, offline merchant payment, online payment, online payment, remittance/P2P transfer, transport and financial services (insurance and lending). All those frameworks will be applied gradually by T-CASH as a solid framework.

“For the remittance, only T-CASH has a real-time process, money transferred to the registered banks and directly received by users,” said Wicaksana.

In terms of transportation, T-CASH plans to have partnership with Blue Bird and Transjakarta as payment service provider. As for the Financial Services segment, which currently under development, it can be used by related parties to see user’s credit scoring.

“We also have worked with BTPN, BNI and BTN in terms of funding allocation in various number to enterprises in Indonesia,” Wicaksana said.

T-CASH’s next target

Beside spinning off from Telkomsel and becoming independent, T-CASH’s next plan is to strengthen the 10 million customer base to 100-120 million in 5 years. In 2019-2020, T-CASH plans to get into scale-up stage, followed by becoming major player until 2021.

T-CASH will compete with other server-based payment service, including those initiated by telco, banking or startups. Example for latter parts are Go-Pay and DANA.

“As a server-based service, T-CASH is expected to be the number one mobile money provider in Indonesia, as well as encourage financial inclusion and cashless society in Indonesia,” Wicaksana ended.


Original article is in Indonesian, translated by Kristin Siagian

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T-CASH’s Focus as Agnostic Product and Plan to Spin Off From Telkomsel

Telkomsel’s mobile money product which already developed since 2015, T-CASH, has gone through several changes in the edge of 2017. Next year, T-CASH will try to be “free” from Telkomsel and become an independent platform (agnostic); able to use by wider audiences, not only Telkomsel users.

T-CASH’s CEO Danu Wicaksana said to DailySocial, public adoption in 2017 shows positive trend, visible from T-CASH registered users that have reached 10 millions in 34 provinces.

“In 2017, T-CASH will be focused on building strong CICO (Cash-In-Cash-Out) points ecosystem throughout Indonesia, both in big and small cities, adding T-CASH use case and services, strengthening merchant networks receiving T-CASH, improving platform’s reliability and performance, both mobile app and its backend system.”

In addition, T-CASH will improve awareness regarding products and guidelines for larger public to gain new users.

About 2018’s plan, Wicaksana, who previously was Berrybenka’s Managing Director, clearly said to continue his commitment in providing various kinds of innovative products and services for public, in order to support cashless society ecosystem.

“Few examples of innovative technology we plan to develop is e-KYC (electronic-Know Your Customer), dynamic QR code, face-recognition login technology and so on. For services, we offer various kinds of financial products to our customers such as insurance, loan and others,” said Wicaksana.

Spin off plan

To be able to grow faster, T-CASH plans to spin off from Telkomsel and run as an independent business. Related to the plan, Wicaksana confirms there is indeed a future intention.

In claiming to be agnostic product, T-CASH’s next strategy is to serve public without having to be Telkomsel users.

“We have plans in several months ahead to make T-CASH as an agnostic product of electronic money. It can be used by customers from any mobile network operators in Indonesia,” Wicaksana concluded.


Original article is in Indonesian, translated by Kristin Siagian

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