Supporting National QRIS Week, CIMB Niaga Facilitates Non-Cash Transactions

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JAKARTA - PT Bank CIMB Niaga Tbk (CIMB Niaga) supports the National Quick Response Indonesian Standard (QRIS) Week held by Bank Indonesia (BI) on 9-15 March 2020 by participating in eight cities in Indonesia, namely Jakarta, Surabaya, Medan, Bandung, Makassar, Yogyakarta, Serang and Denpasar.

One form of CIMB Niaga's participation in this National QRIS Week is to collaborate with merchants as well as educate them to use QRIS services.

National QRIS Week is an educational activity and outreach to the public regarding the use of a QRIS-based non-cash payment system. This technology can accept payments from various payment applications by simply scanning the QR Code at merchants so that the transaction process becomes faster, easier, and safer.

CIMB Niaga Consumer Banking Director Lani Darmawan said, CIMB Niaga welcomes BI's initiative to hold a National QRIS Week. Since 2019, CIMB Niaga has implemented QRIS through QR CIMB Niaga which is now available at various merchants ranging from large, medium, micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), places of worship, to social institutions.

"We hope that more and more business actors will provide non-cash payment methods such as QRIS to facilitate public transactions. On the other hand, we also encourage the community to use QRIS in making daily payments, ”said Lani in a statement received, Saturday, March 14.

Transactions using QRIS provide benefits for both consumers and merchants. Consumers will have the flexibility to use any payment application when making transactions at merchants.

Because it functions as a digital payment, transactions using QR also do not require physical 'contact', let alone have to carry cash (cashless). As for merchants, it will be easier and more efficient to carry out the administrative process because every transaction is recorded automatically.

With the application of QRIS, CIMB Niaga customers can use Go Mobile to make payments at all merchants that provide QRIS, both QR CIMB Niaga and QR from other electronic money applications. Likewise, users of other electronic money applications can make payments at merchants that provide QR CIMB Niaga.

"As a bank that prioritizes customer experience, we are optimistic that QRIS can meet the people's needs for simple and fast payments. Hopefully the National QRIS Week will further strengthen the digital payment ecosystem and financial inclusion in Indonesia, "concluded Lani.