Hastin Bank gets ISO-9001

Hastin Bank gets ISO-9001

JAKARTA (JP): Certification agencies Societe Generale de Surveillance and PT Sucofindo awarded ISO-9001 quality management system certificate to Hastin Bank over the weekend.

The bank's president Anwary Surjaudaja said the ISO-9001 certificate was awarded to Hastin Bank for the design of banking products and the provision of corporate and retail banking services, including credits, treasury and trade, finance and general banking operations.

"Hastin Bank is the first national bank to be awarded the ISO- 9001 certificate," Surjaudaja was reported by Antara as saying here.

He also said that in 1996, a year marked by a tight monetary situation, Hastin Bank posted a net profit of Rp 3.08 billion (US$907,480), 6 percent higher than Rp 2.90 billion secured in 1995.