KONTAN.CO.ID - JAKARTA. Indonesia's Bank Jago aims to crunch transaction data supplied by local technology giants to create customer profiles and market financial products, as the digital lender targets profitability this year, its chief executive told Reuters.

Ride hailing and payments company Gojek, which owns a 22% stake in the bank via its fintech arm Gopay, is in the process of merging with e-commerce company Tokopedia to form GoTo in Indonesia's biggest ever deal.

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Bank Jago, which also counts Singapore's GIC as an investor, is negotiating so that clients can open and manage bank accounts from Gojek's app this quarter, and later loan applications, chief executive Kharim Indra Gupta Siregar said in an interview.

The bank will seek customer approval to access travel, food purchases and other transaction data, he said, adding this would help assess eligibility for credit.

"Their daily lifestyle can be information for us," Siregar said.

The lender is still in talks with Tokopedia on potential cooperation, he said.

"With Tokopedia coming into the picture, it creates another digital ecosystem that can be partnered up with Bank Jago and clearly it will be foolish not to pursue," he said.

Gojek claims to have 170 million users across Southeast Asia, while Tokopedia says it has over 11 million merchants and more than 100 million active monthly users in Indonesia.

Editor: Yudho Winarto