Aiming For Cheap Funds Of Up To 35 Percent From DPK, Bank Mega Owned By Conglomerate Chairul Tanjung Continues Savings Program With Apartment Prizes

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JAKARTA - PT Bank Mega Tbk (MEGA) is trying to increase the portion of low-cost funds or current account saving account (CASA). The target is to reach 35 percent of the total third party funds (DPK).

One of the ways that the bank owned by conglomerate Chairul Tanjung has taken is to continue the Meriah Together Mega program for Mega Dana and Mega Maxi savings customers with super festive raffle prizes. This program will run throughout the period July 1, 2022–January 31, 2023.

"The current composition of CASA with our DPK is around 29 percent. We estimate that with this program we can increase it by 32 to 33 percent," said Director of Consumer Banking Bank Mega Diza Larentie in a press conference launching the Meriah Bareng Mega program at Menara Bank Mega, Wednesday July 6th.

For information, Bank Mega launched the Meriah Bareng Mega savings program which gave a grand prize drawing in the form of 1 apartment unit and gave the main winners the freedom to choose their desired location, among 4 prime locations, namely the Trans Park Bintaro Apartment, Trans Park Bekasi, Trans Park Cibubur and Trans Icon Surabaya.

Diza added that in addition to the grand prize, Bank Mega also ensures that every month 131 lucky draw winners will be selected to get various prizes including precious metal weighing 5 grams for 100 winners, Samsung Galaxy S22 for 20 winners, Ipad Pro M1 for 10 winners. winners and 50 grams of precious metal for 1 winner. Until the end of the program period, the Meriah Bareng Mega lottery prize will produce 918 winners.

Not only providing raffle prizes, the Meriah Bareng Mega Program which lasts for 7 months, also ensures that Mega Dana and Mega Maxi savings customers will get reward points in the form of MPC points that can be used to shop at retail business unit networks under the auspices of CT Corp.

Other benefits obtained, continued Diza, customers will also get attractive discounts if they shop using a debit card at the CT Corp retail network, including Metro Department Store, Transmart, Trans Studio, Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, Wendy's, Baskin & Robbin, Trans Fashion and others.

"With so many benefits of saving at Bank Mega, we encourage saving to become a habit for the community because it provides useful value for now and in the future," concluded Diza.