Leadership transition positions DOKU for its next chapter of growth, backed by a 2027 strategy to strengthen national market leadership

JAKARTA, Indonesia, Sept. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — DOKU, Indonesia’s leading payment fintech company, today announced an organisational upgrade and leadership appointments alongside a deepened strategic investment from Antom, the merchant payment and digitisation services of Ant International. The moves build on the strategic partnership the two companies first announced in February 2026, and mark the next step in DOKU’s collaboration with Antom’s global merchant network and closer collaboration with 2C2P, Antom’s Southeast Asia regional payment gateway subsidiary.

Leadership Transition
Effective immediately, DOKU announces the following leadership appointments:

Himelda Renuat, a co-founder of DOKU who most recently served as Chief Marketing Officer, has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of DOKU and Head of Antom Indonesia. In this expanded role, Himelda will lead DOKU’s next phase of growth while overseeing Antom’s business across the Indonesian market, bringing together deep local market knowledge with Antom’s regional and global capabilities.

Chris Yeo, who has led DOKU as CEO since 2022, is stepping down from the role. Under Chris’ leadership, DOKU refined its organizational and operational structure, further strengthening the foundation that underpins the business today, while growing transaction volume and forging its partnership with Ant International. In his new role of Head of Antom Philippines, Chris will continue to shepherd local team to advance AI-powered merchant payment services as part of Antom’s regional strategy to better serve SEA customers.

DOKU is rebranded as Antom Deepens Strategic Investment
Alongside the organisational upgrade, DOKU has been rebranded to “DOKU by Antom,” to show the strong synergy and a consistent GTM strategy among DOKU, 2C2P and Antom, DOKU continues to operate under its own name and licenses, with Antom as a strategic investor supporting DOKU’s continued growth. The deepened relationship strengthens collaboration across three fronts:

Closer integration with Antom’s global merchant network, connecting DOKU’s local payment methods, merchant relationships, and regulatory standing in Indonesia to Antom’s global merchant acquiring platform and Ant International’s broader product ecosystem, including the Alipay+ unified wallet gateway.Expanded collaboration with 2C2P, Antom’s regional payment gateway subsidiary, to deliver more comprehensive, tailored solutions for Indonesian merchants scaling across SEA, and for international merchants entering Indonesia.Broader financial services, including continued work on multi-currency solutions, cross-border payment processing, and exploration of lending and treasury management tools for merchants.

Charting the Next Chapter: DOKU’s Vision upon Organisational Upgrade
Under Himelda’s leadership, DOKU is staying close to what has always driven the company: helping Indonesian businesses grow, one transaction at a time, whether that’s a small merchant taking its first online payment or an enterprise expanding beyond Indonesia’s borders.

Looking toward 2027, DOKU’s roadmap centers on deepening relationships with the merchants it already serves, extending into new industries and payment channels, and helping more Indonesian businesses transact across borders.

These priorities sit on a foundational pillar of service excellence, spanning product reliability, developer-first integration, and dedicated round-the-clock merchant support, that DOKU will continue to invest in as it scales alongside Antom and 2C2P.

Leadership Perspectives
Himelda Renuat, incoming CEO of DOKU, said: “DOKU was built on almost 20 years of trust with our merchants, and that foundation isn’t changing. What’s changing is our reach. With Antom and 2C2P supporting us, we can serve the merchants who trust us today even better, go deeper into the industries that need us most, and help more Indonesian businesses take their first step across borders. I would also like to thank Chris for the structure he has helped shape. It is an honor for me to continue the leadership journey from here.”

Chris Yeo, who most recently served as CEO of DOKU, said: “It has been the privilege of my career to lead DOKU and help shape what we have achieved today alongside our merchants and our team. Himelda is one of DOKU’s founders and has played an instrumental role in building the business and brand, as well as strengthening DOKU’s presence in the market. I couldn’t be more confident in her to lead DOKU into its next chapter.”

Gary Liu, CEO of Antom and Senior Vice President of Ant International, said: “This is a natural next step in the partnership we announced earlier this year, not a departure from it. DOKU’s local expertise, paired with Antom’s global platform and 2C2P’s regional reach, positions us to deliver real value to businesses across Indonesia and Southeast Asia. And in Himelda, we have exactly the right leader to take DOKU into its next chapter. We’re also grateful to Chris for his leadership over the past several years in building this partnership.”

Worachat Luxkanalode, CEO of 2C2P, said: “We look forward to deepening our work with DOKU under this new structure, combining our regional payment gateway capabilities with DOKU’s local market leadership to help merchants scale confidently across Southeast Asia.”

About DOKU by Antom
DOKU by Antom is Indonesia’s leading payment fintech platform, empowering local and global businesses to accept and make payments across online and offline channels through one point of integration. Established in 2007, DOKU was the first Indonesian company to earn PCI DSS Level 1 certification and holds the full suite of six payment licenses from Bank Indonesia, spanning payment gateway, fund transfers, e-money, e-wallets, QR code payments, and PNBP collection. DOKU serves over 300,000 merchants across Indonesia, including TikTok, Google, Garuda Indonesia, Prudential, and Trip.com. DOKU is part of Ant International’s Antom, a world leading merchant payment and digitisation services provider.

For more information, please visit doku.com (corporate) or doku.promo (consumer), find us on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, or YouTube (DOKU ID).

About 2C2P
2C2P is Southeast Asia’s leading payments platform that empowers businesses of all sizes to securely accept and make payments through one point of integration. Its extensive network spans across online, mobile and offline channels including over 600,000 alternative payment locations, enabling enterprises to reach their customers or recipients anywhere. 2C2P is part of Ant International’s Antom, a world leading merchant payment and digitisation services provider.

About Ant International
Ant International is a leading global digital payment, digitisation and financial technology provider. Through collaboration across the private and public sectors, our unified techfin platform supports financial institutions and merchants of all sizes to achieve inclusive growth through a comprehensive range of cutting-edge digital payment and financial services solutions. To learn more, please visit https://www.ant-intl.com/.

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JAKARTA, Indonesia, Sept. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia (Persero) Tbk (IDX: BBRI) reported net profit of IDR 31.2 trillion in the second quarter of 2026, up 17.5% year on year, as the bank sustained business growth amid economic and banking industry dynamics. BRI recorded double-digit growth in assets, loans and financing alongside stronger fundamentals, asset quality and profitability.

On a consolidated basis, BRI’s assets reached IDR 2,352 trillion, up 11.7% year on year, while loans and financing rose 16.2% to IDR 1,646 trillion. Third-party funds increased 6.7% to IDR 1,581 trillion, net interest income rose 9.9% to IDR 80.5 trillion, and pre-provision operating profit increased 12.8% to IDR 65.7 trillion.

“These results show that our transformation is starting to deliver. What matters to us is not just how fast BRI grows, but whether that growth is built on stronger fundamentals and benefits the wider economy,” said BRI President Director Hery Gunardi.

Stronger fundamentals support growth

On a bank-only basis, BRI’s Cost of Funds fell to 2.4% from 3.0% a year earlier, while its Cost to Income Ratio improved to 39.2% from 41.9%. The Non-Performing Loan ratio declined to 2.9% from 3.0%, while Cost of Credit improved to 3.1% from 3.4%.

Return on Assets remained at around 2.7%, while Return on Equity increased to 18.8% from 16.6% a year earlier.

BRI is continuing its transformation under BRIVolution Reignite, focusing on strengthening its funding franchise, improving existing core businesses and developing new sources of growth.

MSMEs remain at the core of BRI’s business

Loans to MSMEs reached IDR 1,235.4 trillion at the end of the second quarter, up 8.6% year on year and accounting for 75.1% of BRI Group’s total loan and financing portfolio.

BRI also continued its MSME empowerment programmes. As of June, Desa BRILiaN had reached more than 5,700 assisted villages, Klasterku Hidupku more than 44,000 business clusters, and LinkUMKM about 17.3 million MSMEs.

From January to June, BRI disbursed IDR 103.8 trillion in People’s Business Credit (KUR) to more than two million borrowers.

“MSMEs remain a core part of BRI’s business. As we grow, we want to support businesses and the wider economy by expanding access to finance and strengthening the capacity of Indonesian MSMEs,” Hery said.

For more information, visit www.bri.co.id.

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Following five country launches earlier this year, EBANX prepares operations in Pakistan with local wallets and instant-payment rail integrations, while launching native Apple Pay decryption across Latin America

SINGAPORE, Sept. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — At its annual Payments Summit, EBANX, a global technology company specializing in payment services for emerging markets, unveiled a new wave of product launches and geographic roadmap expansions, doubling down on its drive to solve payment complexity and unlock merchant growth. Among the new offerings, the company added Pakistan to its operations portfolio for the next semester, and a native decryption architecture for Apple Pay across Latin America and the Caribbean.

The Summit, now in its ninth year, wrapped its APAC chapter in South Korea earlier this month and is running its global edition in Costa Rica through Friday, the 25th.  

“Solving complexity is the very core of what we do. Our expertise is transforming operational challenges into scalable growth for our merchants,” said João Del Valle, CEO and Co-founder of EBANX. “This is the underlying logic behind our moves, whether expanding into a new market or delivering advanced technological architecture.”

Mobile-first and a double-digit growth opportunity in Pakistan

Following the addition of Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Türkiye to its footprint in 2026, EBANX is preparing its payment operations in Pakistan for the next semester. The first alternative payment methods (APMs) to be offered are the local wallets JazzCash and Easypaisa, each reporting more than 50 million users. Next will be Raast, Pakistan’s rapidly growing national instant-payment rail. Data from the State Bank of Pakistan shows that Raast transaction volume nearly doubled in a year, going from 371.2 million in Q3 FY25 to 742.1 million in Q3 FY26.

EBANX selected the country as its next frontier due to strong merchant demand and structural market complexity. According to World Data Lab (WDL) data analyzed by EBANX, Pakistan’s e-commerce spending is projected to grow at an average rate of 22% annually (2026-2030). 

With this high CAGR, the country is on track to more than triple its online market size over the decade. Pakistani Gen Z (ages 15–30 in 2026), especially, is experiencing a massive digital boom. Their spending on Video Gaming, Streaming, and Social Media is projected to grow at 17% annually through 2036—but credit card ownership among this cohort is below 10%.

“Pakistan is a classic mobile-first market where smartphone ownership runs 20 to 40 percentage points ahead of card ownership. This makes local account-based payment methods, bank transfers, and digital wallets the key to winning market share,” said Eduardo de Abreu, CPO of EBANX and regional CEO of EBANX Singapore. “This payment fragmentation is challenging for global businesses, but bridging local payment infrastructure with global merchant needs is precisely what we have specialized in for over a decade.”

Since its founding in Brazil in 2012, out of the necessity of global brands to connect with consumers and businesses through the Brazilian bank slip Boleto, EBANX has gone global, offering 400+ rails, 200+ payment methods, and processing over 4 million transactions per day. 

Apple Pay: EBANX decrypts in-house, so merchants don’t have to

Starting in September, EBANX is rolling out a new operating model for Apple Pay that shifts the entire token decryption layer in-house. Under this setup, EBANX receives and decrypts encrypted Apple Pay tokens directly, managing certificates, security keys, and end-to-end PCI DSS compliance within its own infrastructure rather than requiring merchants to handle decryption.

“The result is less burden for merchants and faster, safer, more seamless transaction flows, with EBANX owning the full end-to-end cardholder journey inside our acquiring stack,” explained Abreu. 

Apple Pay is a tokenized digital wallet that uses a debit or credit card as the underlying payment credential. With this new offering, EBANX—the only PSP with local acquiring across all 11 Latin American and Caribbean markets where Apple Pay operates—simplifies merchants’ operations while maintaining full end-to-end PCI DSS compliance within its acquiring infrastructure. 

Early production data underscores the model’s performance impact: tokenized wallet processing delivered an 11-percentage-point uplift in approval rates compared to non-tokenized card transactions, reaching 94.4%. Average Order Value (AOV) ran 23.5% higher than standard card purchases, reflecting strong alignment with high-intent digital consumers. 

“We have already built a successful partnership with Apple Pay in Brazil. Now, we are taking the most sophisticated version of that architecture across Latin America, from Guatemala to Argentina, for both one-time and recurring transactions,” said Del Valle. 

According to Payment and Commerce Market Intelligence (PCMI) data sourced by EBANX, tokenized wallets already represent approximately 25% of e-commerce card volume in Brazil, 20% in Chile, 16% in Mexico, 15% in Colombia, 13% in Argentina, and 9% in Peru.

Payments Summit

Hosted by EBANX, the Payments Summit brings together global leaders across payments and digital commerce to examine high-growth emerging markets. Grounded in real-world merchant case studies, market intelligence, and executive discussions, the forum spotlights the structural trends shaping digital economies across Latin America, Africa, and Asia. In 2026, the program featured an APAC edition in Jeju Island, South Korea, in partnership with Mastercard, alongside a Global edition in Guanacaste, Costa Rica, in partnership with Citi.

ABOUT EBANX

EBANX is the leading technology platform connecting global businesses to the world’s fastest-growing digital markets. Founded in 2012 in Brazil, EBANX was built with a mission to expand access to international digital commerce. Leveraging proprietary technology, deep market expertise, and robust infrastructure, the platform enables global businesses to offer hundreds of local payment methods and streamline cross-border payments across Latin America, Africa, and Asia. With a global footprint, it established a technology and regulatory headquarters in Singapore in 2026. More than just payments, EBANX drives growth, enhances sales, and delivers seamless purchase experiences for businesses and end users alike.

For further information, please visit:
Website: https://ebanx.com/en/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ebanx

Media Contact: 
Shan Huang | AHG Strategies
shan.huang@ahgstrategies.com
www.ahgstrategies.com

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