Bank Permata spent U.S. $ 15 Million for IT

Jakarta - PT Bank Permata Tbk allocates it’s capital expenditures for the development of information technology (IT) in 2009 of $ 15 million.

"Our IT Expenditure this year is not different from the last year, such as $ 15 million," said Director of IT & Operations Bank Permata J. Giorgino Godong, after demo PonselPay in Permata Building, Jakarta, Thursday (14/5/2009).

He breaks down, the composition of the largest IT spending of funds intended for the procurement of machinery and devices such as servers, computers, including software (software). It’s remain spent for component of communication include telephone and internet as well as the procurement of automatic teller machines (ATM).

He also explained, for given period, computer as one of the main device for their services is also improved it’s capacity.

Currently, the number of permata’s customers is about one million accounts. According Georgino, 300,000 of them actively using mobile banking services with the number of transactions up to 300,000 traffic times.

He also estimates, the number of permata’s users on mobile banking will continues increase as fast as the increasing of the ease of transaction and efficiency of the time of transaction that if it is done by it.

Bank Permata has a number of 549 ATM units and the number of branch offices reached 277 offices in 55 cities. While the ATM network of cooperation with the national banking sector reached 17,000 ATMs. (Rou / faw)