As part of my job as Innovation Management, on a weekly basis I deliver quick industry updates to the relevant XL Digital services team. Since i will be writing this for work, might as well post it here. Hope you guys find it useful.
BCA Financial Hackathon 2016
Bank BCA in collaboration with DailySocial held Financial Hackathon event on 23-24th April at Segarra Ancol. By doing this event, Bank BCA encourage software developers and innovators to build creative fintech services using their recently launched Data API.
For this competition, BCA invited several experts in Indonesia startup ecosystem to be the judges. Amongst them are Andrew Darwis (Kaskus), Anton Soehartyo (Touchten), Rama Mamuaya (DailySocial) and several others.
Three winners were announced at the end of this events.
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Team Name |
Product Name |
Product Description |
|
Fariz Tadjoedin |
ChatBanking |
Send money through instant messenger such as Line, WeChat, Kakao Talk etc |
|
AMBISNIS |
GueBayar |
Apps to share bill payments amongst friends. User just need to take receipt picture and tag a friends. The bill will be splitted amongst the tagged users |
|
ATOM |
InstaPay |
Bill payment apps. Integrated with BCA E-wallet |
This initiatives can be seen as increasing commitment from Bank BCA to dive in into Indonesia digital ecosystem going forward. No news yet on whether their Data API will be accessible for public or not. Considering the massive size of BCA, it will spark a whole lot new services if their API opened for developers and startups.
More information on this : https://dailysocial.id/post/inilah-3-aplikasi-pemenang-finhacks-2016-hackbythebeach/
Mandiri Capital Indonesia Set Up IDR 500 Bio For Investing In Indonesia Fintech Startups
Apart from BCA, Bank Mandiri also had started a move to venture in Indonesia startup ecosystem. Earlier this year, this biggest bank in Indonesia launched their venture capital subsidiaries called Mandiri Capital Indonesia (MCI). For this venture, the corporation has set up IDR 500 bio funds to be invested in several potential startups.
On top of financial investment, MCI will give mentorship guidance to their portfolio startups and also give marketing platform to connect the startups with potential customers / partners (e.g using Wirausaha Mandiri platform)
Budi Gunadi Sadikin, Bank Mandiri CEO, explained that the company sees the emerging trend of disruptive technologies following the growth of Indonesia digital ecosystem. For example, Ride-hailing apps and various e-commerce players have changed the way Indonesians do business. Bank Mandiri cannot afford to be left behind in this movement hence the decision to jump in directly into Indonesian startup ecosystem.
“Financial technology startups are in this money moving business. That’s why we (Bank Mandiri) entered this space with a focus on fintech,” Budi stated.
Mandiri Capital Indonesia will be focusing to invest in fintech and e-commerce digital payment space to leverage on existing Bank Mandiri’s business. Currently, the bank had more than 2 million merchants which mostly receive payments in cash.
More information on this : http://www.cnnindonesia.com/ekonomi/20160128123925-92-107346/suntik-modal-start-up-mandiri-capital-tak-beri-syarat-khusus/
Gojek Expands Gojek Credit into GoPay
Leading ride sharing startups Gojek have started to expand into cashless payment business by upgrading their previous Gojek Credit features into separate business called GoPay. Following this update, users can top up GoPay using bank BCA, Mandiri and BR with maximum balance IDR 2 million per user. Gojek users will be able to pay all of related Gojek services (Gofood, Goclean) using GoPay.
Going forward, theres a big possibility for Gojek to utilize GoPay for universal cashless payment platform apart for their own services.
More information on this : https://id.techinasia.com/gojek-hadirkan-gocar-saingi-uber-dan-grabcar
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