Marciano leads Danareksa Sekuritas

Irvin Avriano A.

for Bisnis Indonesia

Marciano leads Danareksa Sekuritas

JAKARTA: Marciano Herman was elected to fill the empty chair of chief executive officer for PT Danareksa Sekuritas which has abandoned by Andi N. Purwohardono at the end of last year.

A capital market source said the appointment which made Marciano's state-owned securities company's leader in late January. Last year, Andi Purwohardono moved to Morgan Stanley Indonesia to replace the Inghie Kwik.

When confirmed, President Director of PT Danareksa (Persero) Edgar Ekaputra, who owned Danareksa Securities, said Marciano's effective position as president director of Danareksa Sekuritas is depends to the approval of the Capital Market & Financial Institutions Supervisory Agency (Badan Pengawas Pasar Modal dan Lembaga Keuangan/Bapepam-LK).

"It is true Marciano determined as president director of Danareksa Securities," Edgar said to Bisnis yesterday.

Marciano currently Director of Investment Banking in Danareksa Sekuritas. Andi Purwohardono move out from Danareksa Sekuritas and gone to lead Morgan Stanley.

Morgan Stanley won permission to be a securities company in Indonesia from Bapepam-LK since October 27, 2008. The license that makes the company able to offer a series of securities advice services in the domestic investment banking, underwriting, and brokerage services.

When confirmed, Marciano justify his appointment. However, he said his successor in the position of director of investment banking has not been selected and are still waiting for the fit and proper test that will held by Bapepam-LK.

"Until now I still have the same job, still as the head of the IB [investment banking] too, it is still relatively the same."

Danareksa Sekuritas underwriting aim Rp7 trillion worth of debt securities this year. Bonds which are largely targeted to be released to the market in the 1st semester of 2010.

Edgar also said that the company targets retail customer growth increased minimum at 20% from currently as many as 30,000 customers to 36,000 customers of the new facility of online trading. The securities company's facilities, he said, will be launched next month.

"Currently the number of our customers are about over 30,000 people, later on after it went online trading, we can increase customer targeting at least 20%." He explained some online trading facilities already used by some retail customers the company, but not the entire facility.