The Marriage Season is Coming

IBRA is set to preside over the marriage of poor CAR banks under its control. Will Bank Universal and BII be the first to merge?

November 27, 2000

The Year of the Snake in the Chinese calendar is coming. It’s time for Indonesia’s banking industry to consolidate. The Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (IBRA) has given ailing banks under its supervision until next year to meet the industry’s Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR) or face being liquidated or forced to merge. No longer will IBRA recapitalize them as it did in 1998 to keep them afloat. Despite an injection of more tha

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