From TechInAsia, service on demand GO-JEK certainly has established strategic agreements with MVCommerce, a company that has a mobile payment service PonselPay. Certainty is obtained from founder and CEO PonselPay statement, Hendra Sutandinata.
"We have established strategic agreements with GO-JEK to unite our strength respectively, to support the inclusive finance programs in Indonesia," said Hendra told Tech in Asia. GO-JEK himself refused to comment regarding this issue.
This agreement is mentioned with regard to e-money license owned by MVCommerce. GO-JEK itself clearly in need of such license in order to support their payment services, GO-PAY.
Own e-money license is also touted as the reason behind the acquisitions made by the news media giant Emtek against Doku payment services. "So far there has been no official announcement (on the news) on the internal side," said a spokeswoman Doku to Tech in Asia.
Adi Sariaatmadja, Director of KMK Online which is the digital division of Emtek, too shy to make the news. "Always there are rumors that spread," he said.
Currently, Bank Indonesia (BI) is the middle restrict the issuance of e-money license. So far, there are only 21 companies in Indonesia who managed to have the license, the majority of them are banks and telecommunications companies.
This also makes the owners of e-money license, in addition to banks and telecommunications companies, became an attractive commodity. Some large companies that want to enter the e-money market in the country, obviously will consider the possibility of acquiring them.
This already happens when an e-money services from Thailand called True Money wants to present their services in the country. They started by acquiring a license owner company e-money, ie Witami Teller.
M Ajisatria Suleiman (Aji), Public Policy Director of the Association of Indonesian Fintech, stated that there are currently 20 companies that submitted applications for licensed e-money to the central bank. Until now, they are still waiting for a response from the central bank in Indonesia.
"BI is currently encouraging interoperability between e-money products. When this issue has been resolved, the new BI will consider re-opening the opportunity for a new license. So, now they want to focus on having a strong infrastructure first, before allowing more players come in, "said Aji.
According to Aji, BI is also preparing a draft regulation on e-wallet at the same time.
"E-Wallet can only store data, while e-money could save money. So perhaps all sides can get a license e-wallet as long as they meet the requirements. But to get an e-money license, the central bank will implement a policy to regulate the publication, "said Aji.
Throughout the year, there is a new payment service that secured the e-money license, which Espay. They have teamed up with some e-commerce players, such as MatahariMall.
"We have established strategic agreements with GO-JEK to unite our strength respectively, to support the inclusive finance programs in Indonesia," said Hendra told Tech in Asia. GO-JEK himself refused to comment regarding this issue.
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Own e-money license is also touted as the reason behind the acquisitions made by the news media giant Emtek against Doku payment services. "So far there has been no official announcement (on the news) on the internal side," said a spokeswoman Doku to Tech in Asia.
Adi Sariaatmadja, Director of KMK Online which is the digital division of Emtek, too shy to make the news. "Always there are rumors that spread," he said.
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This also makes the owners of e-money license, in addition to banks and telecommunications companies, became an attractive commodity. Some large companies that want to enter the e-money market in the country, obviously will consider the possibility of acquiring them.
This already happens when an e-money services from Thailand called True Money wants to present their services in the country. They started by acquiring a license owner company e-money, ie Witami Teller.
There are 20 companies have been "queuing" e-money license
"BI is currently encouraging interoperability between e-money products. When this issue has been resolved, the new BI will consider re-opening the opportunity for a new license. So, now they want to focus on having a strong infrastructure first, before allowing more players come in, "said Aji.
According to Aji, BI is also preparing a draft regulation on e-wallet at the same time.
"E-Wallet can only store data, while e-money could save money. So perhaps all sides can get a license e-wallet as long as they meet the requirements. But to get an e-money license, the central bank will implement a policy to regulate the publication, "said Aji.
Throughout the year, there is a new payment service that secured the e-money license, which Espay. They have teamed up with some e-commerce players, such as MatahariMall.
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