Jakarta, 23 Mei 2021 -- The pandemic is changing people's habits to become more and more digital. The need for digital transactions is also getting bigger, including banking transactions. This condition was recorded in BNI, where digital banking transactions increased by 50%.
"If you look at the December 2020 transactions, digital transactions of BNI customers, especially by BNI Mobile Banking application, have increased by almost 50% from December 2019 transactions," said BNI’s Vice President Director, Adi Sulistyowati.
The data, she said, shows that people have started to switch to transactions, namely from physical transactions at outlets to electronic or digital channels. In this case customers use BNI Mobile Banking application.
The high interest of BNI Mobile Banking users is driven by the latest features launched to complement the services therein, among others, such as Biometric Login, opening digital accounts with facial recognition features, borrowing funds, managing credit card bills, developing e-wallets, and making payments with QRIS payments. BNI Mobile Banking also has features that are favorite during a pandemic such as Mobile Cash (cardless cash withdrawal) and Dikado (digital gifts) to send money to families back home on the Eid Al-Fitr. These various feature innovations have received appreciation from users as reflected in the increase in the rating of BNI Mobile Banking application on Android Google Play Store from 3.6 in August 2020 to 4.9 in April 2021 and also IOS Apple Store to 4.4 in April 2021.
For digital transactions, Adi Sulistyowati revealed that Indonesia has great potential. Just look at the country's internet usage which reaches 274 million and those who are connected to mobile are 345.2 million. Â "It is a tremendous digital potential for Indonesian people. We see that there is still a lot that can be developed to serve people throughout Indonesia," she said.
This year, Adi Sulistyowati explained that innovation will continue to be carried out in increasing transaction convenience and new features on BNI mobile banking platform, such as features to support MSMEs, statement consolidation, interactive virtual assistance (Chat me) and many other new features.Â
BNI Mobile Banking prioritizes to make it easier for customers to transact directly via smartphone, safely, easily, economically and quickly. BNI Mobile Banking provides balance information transaction services, transfers, telephone bill payments, credit card payments, airplane ticket payments, credit purchases, opening Taplus account, opening Deposit account, and others.Â
Not only that. With BNI Mobile Banking application, customers can use transaction services free of charge or free to check balances, transfers between BNI, pay BNI credit cards, pay Infaq, Qurban, Waqf, Zakat; Pay BPJS dues; Deposit disbursement; Mutual fund top up; Pay tax; Pay tuition fees; to Top up LinkAja balance.
BNI also provides attractive prizes for loyal mobile banking users with a total of millions of rupiah each month.
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