Encourage Digitalization, President Director Of Bank DKI Fidri Arnaldy Achieves Financial Top Leader 2023

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JAKARTA - The extraordinary contribution given by the President Director of Bank DKI, Fidri Arnaldy in leading Bank DKI to accelerate business growth consistently and various innovation steps towards digitalization, was appreciated by the awarding of awards by the editors of Warta Ekonomi as the Best Leader of the Financial Industry in 2023 - Best Leader for Sustainability Acceleration Through Business Expansion and Implementation Non-Cash Transactions, (Category: KBMI 2, BPD).

The award ceremony was received directly by the President Director of Bank DKI, Fidri Arnaldy at the Indonesia Financial Top Leader Awards 2023 which was held online on Wednesday, May 31.

President Director of Bank DKI, Fidri Arnaldy expressed his gratitude and also dedicated the awards won to shareholders and all stakeholders.

This award was achieved for synergy and collaboration from shareholders, customer support and all workers. Strong and effective leadership plays a key role in supporting the Vision of Indonesia Gold 2045, that leadership not only involves decision making and direction, but also involves the ability to motivate, inspire, and guide team members towards common goals desired," said Fidri, who was previously named The Iconomics as one of the 50 Best CEOs of Category Regional Bank and is the only CEO/President Director from BPD.

The selection of Indonesia Financial Top Leader 2023 was carried out through research by the research team of Warta Ekonomi using a desk research approach, media monitoring and expert panels. Several indicators that are considered to include the company's financial performance consisting of asset growth, revenue growth and profit growth, as well as flexible financial model implementation factors, such as market segmentation and product development, digital acceleration-focused business innovation, implementation of risk mitigation and stakeholder engagement, as well as aspects of social obligations by empowering the community in the micro, small and medium enterprise sectors.

The leader who received the award was the highest score winner in each sector and industry category. Furthermore, Fidri emphasized the importance of preparing a tough generation as a legacy so that Bank DKI continues to develop sustainably.

"In an effort to ensure the long-term quality performance of Bank DKI, Bank DKI has operated the Learning Center of Bank DKI as a competent human resource development center, launched the Command Center to maximize IT governance, and added a new branch office network outside the Jakarta area, namely Semarang, Lampung, and Sidoarjo," added Fidri.

Under his leadership, Bank DKI was able to win the title as the 20 Best Banks and the only BPD in Indonesia to be included in the ranks of the World's Best Banks or the Best Bank in the World in 2022 according to Forbes magazine.

The fruit of Fidri Arnaldy's cold leadership in facing challenging economic conditions can be seen clearly from the financial performance recorded by the Company. Bank DKI closed 2022 by recording the highest net profit in the history of the Company's establishment of IDR 939.11 billion or grew 29.11 percent.

Total assets grew to IDR 78.88 trillion, supported by credit growth of 23.53 percent and DPK growth of 12.82 percent in December 2022.

Continuing in the first quarter of 2023, brilliant performance continued to be inscribed by recording net profit growth of 17.77 percent to Rp233.20 billion in March 2023 compared to Rp198.01 billion in March 2022. Bank DKI credit also increased by 24.68 percent to Rp48.37 trillion in March 2023, from Rp38.80 trillion in the same period in the previous year, while the performance of third party funds (DPK) also grew 16.27% to Rp67.13 trillion in March 2023 from Rp57.74 trillion in March 2022.

This prompted an increase in assets of 12.38 percent to IDR 79.93 trillion in March 2023, from IDR 71.13 trillion in March 2022. Fidri was also able to increase and maintain the Bank Health Level (TKB) of Bank DKI category 2 (Good) for 2 consecutive years.

Bank DKI is also adaptive in developing digital banking services to expand public financial access, including presenting JakOne Mobile super apps, JakOne Pay simple apps, JakOne Abank and other digital banking services such as Cash Management System, as well as developing digital lending applications for credit and financing facilities.

In terms of card-based non-cash transaction services, Bank DKI continues to expand JakCard's acceptance as an electronic money card on various modes of transportation for DKI Jakarta, museum entrance tickets and tourist attractions managed by the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government and BUMD, to transactions at various merchants in collaboration with Bank DKI.

Bank DKI Corporate Secretary, Arie Rinaldi explained that the individual award received by the President Director of Bank DKI, Fidri Arnaldy, completes a total of 43 award categories that have been received by Bank DKI until May 2023.

"The inspiring leadership of the figure of Fidri Arnaldy, with more than 32 years of experience in the banking industry, clearly has a real impact with various sculptured achievements. He also often emphasizes the importance of clear meaning of vision communication, as well as preparing future cadres with high competence and strong mentality, for the sustainability of Bank DKI in the long term," said Arie.