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Pertama Digital Berhad, a local investment holding company in the govtech and fintech spaces, has brought Indonesian firm Crowdo Holdings Pte Ltd into a consortium that intends to apply for a digital bank license from Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM).
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As previously reported, BNM is accepting applications for a digital banking license, with a deadline set to 30 June this year. The central bank said the granting of up to five licenses would be announced by the first quarter of 2022. A lot of big names are reportedly interested in obtaining one – including Grab, Razer and AirAsia.
According to Pertama Digital, Crowdo is a SME-focused neobank (or digital bank) that possesses an AI-powered credit scoring engine specialised for emerging markets within ASEAN. It was apparently in the first batch of fintech companies fully licensed by Indonesia’s Financial Services Authority to provide digital lending services to SMEs.
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FILE PHOTO: Representations of virtual currency Bitcoin are placed on U.S. Dollar banknotes in this illustration taken May 26, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic
JAKARTA: Indonesia is considering a plan to tax the trading of cryptocurrencies after a surge in popularity among local investors, a tax official said yesterday.
The South-East Asian country has been seeking to shore up state revenues amid the coronavirus pandemic, though Neilmaldrin Noor, a spokesman at Indonesia’s tax office, said a tax scheme for cryptocurrency was still at the discussion stage.
“It is important to know that. if there is a profit or capital gain generated from a transaction, the profit is an object of income tax, ” Neilmaldrin said.
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