Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – Bank Indonesia (BI) has officially launched the BI-Fast service last week. Where with this service, now interbank transfers are charged a maximum fee of IDR 2,500.
BI Governor Perry Warjiyo said that the development of BI Fast is an important milestone in the reform of national financial digitization as one of the implementations of the Indonesia Payment System Blueprint 2025.
“BI-Fast is a national initiative to create a more efficient payment system infrastructure to meet people’s needs for fast, easy, cheap, safe and reliable economic and financial transactions,” said Perry, at the virtual launch of BI Fast.
BI-Fast is a national retail payment system infrastructure that can facilitate retail payments online real-time, safe, efficient. In the first stage, BI has synergized with 22 banks, one of which is PT Bank Central Asia Tbk (BBCA) aka BCA.
In line with the BI-Fast service, BCA has implemented an interbank transfer service, namely BI-FAST on channel myBCA version website. BCA President Director, Jahja Setiaatmadja said that in the future BI-Fast services will also be implemented in the myBCA application.
“This service will also be developed in channel-channel Other BCA in stages,” he said, in an official statement obtained by CNBC Indonesia quoted Monday (27/12/2021).
“BI Fast is an adequate innovation in encouraging the modernization of Bank Indonesia’s SKN and retail payment system infrastructure. BCA certainly welcomes the enthusiasm of BI-FAST modern infrastructure organized by Bank Indonesia,” added Jahja.
For information, transactions on BCA digital channels during the pandemic increased rapidly. Transaction recorded internet banking BCA grew 29% YoY to 1.09 billion transactions in Q3-2021, while transactions mobile banking BCA jumped 55% YoY to 2.64 billion in Q3-2021.
Thus, the transaction portion digital banking which include mobile and internet banking BCA at 88% per quarter III-2021. On the other hand, the portion of transactions at branch offices was recorded at 0.5%.
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