The Financial Services Authority (OJK) is expecting that Bank Tabungan Pensiunan Nasional (BTPN) and Bank Sumitomo Mitsui Indonesia, two subsidiaries of Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), will merge to strengthen their presence in the country.
OJK commissioner on banking supervision Nelson Tampubolon said on Thursday that the regulator would ask BTPN and Bank Sumitomo Mitsui Indonesia to include the consolidation arrangement in their 2015 banking business plan (RBB).
The request, Nelson said, was a follow-up from an earlier consolidation commitment by SMBC.
“It [SMBC] has given us a letter of commitment to carry out the consolidation in the future, but it has not firmly defined a time frame,” he said in a text message.