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10 August 2017

BTPN Wow! Facilitates Public Access to Banking Services

Palembang, 10 August 2017 – With its vision of changing the lives of millions of Indonesians, PT Bank Tabungan Pensiunan Nasional Tbk (BTPN) believes that people from all segments of society wish to lead a more meaningful life. Through its business units, BTPN provides access to finance, information as well as training so that all its customers have the chance to improve their life capacities.

In order to enhance financial access, especially for those people who live far from urban centers and have never previously been reached by banking services, BTPN launched BTPN Wow! in March 2015. BTPN Wow! is a BTPN innovation which forms part of the program known as Laku Pandai, an Indonesian acronym for ‘Branchless Banking Services in the Framework of Financial Inclusion’, which was initiated by the country’s Financial Services Authority (OJK).

BTPN Wow! is a banking service for the mass market which utilizes mobile phone technology and is supported by a network of agents who serve as an extension of the bank in expanding service coverage to customers in all the remote corners of Indonesia.

With the assistance of this network of bank agents, people can now enjoy banking services without having to travel a long way to find a bank branch or ATM. Customers can open an account, and deposit or withdraw cash through a bank agent in their area with very low fees.

Furthermore, a variety of other transactions, including money transfers, phone credit purchases, ticket purchases as well as payments of electricity/water bills, telephone bills, insurance premiums and TV subscriptions, can be performed by mobile phone. Using USSD technology, or Unstructured Supplementary Services Data, BTPN Wow! can operate on all types of GSM-based mobile phones (it’s not necessary to use a smartphone), even with a very weak signal.

“Through BTPN Wow! the bank is available to serve people who until now had been out of reach,” said Sales Management Head of BTPN Wow! Mohammad Reza Rizal.

BTPN Wow! was launched in March 2015, and as of June 2017 it already boasts 3.86 million customers across the entire Indonesian archipelago.

For further information please contact:

PT Bank BTPN Tbk
Andrie Darusman – Communications & Daya Head
Email: [email protected] or [email protected]

Bank BTPN in brief

PT Bank BTPN Tbk (Bank BTPN) is a foreign exchange bank and is a merger between PT Bank Tabungan Pensiunan Nasional Tbk (BTPN) and PT Bank Sumitomo Mitsui Indonesia (SMBCI) in February 2019. Bank BTPN serves various segments in the banking industry, from retail to corporate customers, including retirees, micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises (MSME) and productive underprivileged communities; the consuming class segment; and the corporate segment. Bank BTPN provides the services through business units, such as BTPN Sinaya—a business unit for wealth management, BTPN Purna Bakti—a business serving retirees, BTPN Micro Business—a business unit serving microbusinesses, BTPN Business Banking—a business serving small- and medium-sized enterprises, Jenius—a digital banking platform serving the consuming class segment, and the corporate business unit, which serves national, multinational, and Japanese companies. Bank BTPN also has a subsidiary, namely PT Bank BTPN Syariah Tbk, which focuses on serving productive underprivileged customers. Bank BTPN also regularly provides training sessions and information for customers through the Daya Program—a sustainable and measurable empowerment program—to improve customers’ capacity so they can grow and have a chance to live better.