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In an exciting development for cross-border commerce, selected users from China can now engage in QR payments while visiting Indonesia, thanks to a collaborative pilot initiative between the two nations. This innovation allows users to make payments using the…
Korean travelers are set to revolutionize their payment experiences in Thailand, thanks to an innovative collaboration between Bangkok Bank and BC Card, a prominent South Korean payment service provider. The launch of cross-border QR payments through the…
YouTube is now offering its creators another convenient way to share their channels with their audience, via QR codes. This feature is being rolled out to all creators globally and can be accessed easily from the YouTube app itself. If you’re a creator,…
It has been months since Hai Van last checked her purse, since she makes almost all payments by scanning QR codes with her phone. The media company in Hanoi’s Cau Giay District says: “Whether it is having breakfast and lunch at the office, making supermarket…
The link will enable more seamless payments for the high volume of remittances between the two neighbors, which reached S$1.3 billion ($960 million) in 2020. Singapore and Malaysia’s central banks will be embarking on a phased linkage of PayNow and DuitNow,…
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) is planning to introduce uniform pollution under control (PUC) certificate for all vehicles across the country. As per the report in ETAuto, the transport ministry will soon be made uniform PUC certificates…
Even as the iOS 14 public beta remains in its early days, Apple today released iOS and iPadOS 13.6. With the update, users can decide to download iOS and iPadOS updates but not install them. Or, users can decide to download iOS and iPadOS updates and install…
South Korean convenience-store chain GS25, owned by GS Retail, has opened a futuristic convenience store without a checkout counter in Jung District, Seoul this week. The store, which is located in the headquarters building of a local credit card company BC…
UOB attempts to help businesses accelerate payment collection and improve cash flow through its new QR-based solution. The bank launched the QR solution mCollect which allows businesses to collect payments from buyers through fund transfer service PayNow at…
The share of cash in the overall payment volume within Thailand is expected to decline between 2018 and 2022, according to research firm GlobalData. GlobalData’s report Thailand Cards & Payments: Opportunities and Risks to 2022» reveals that the share of cash…
Singapore operator M1 has partnered with the nation’s United Overseas Bank (UOB) to offer PayNow as a payment mode for M1 customers. Under the agreement, M1 customers can now make mobile payments for purchases via PayNow at all M1 Shop outlets, as well as…
Four in five Thai consumers (78 percent) have tried going cashless in 2018, compared to only fifty percent in previous year as confidence in digital payments grew, according to the 2018 Visa Consumer Payment Attitudes study (the “Study”). The study tracks…
Nuwemaru Street in Yeon-dong, Jeju City, was known as Baojian street until it was renamed in April. The street had been called Baojian from 2011 when the Chinese pharmaceutical company of the same name sent 12,000 employees to the southern tourist island as a…
AlipayHK users will be able to take the MTR by simply tapping their mobile phones at ticket gates at MTR stations starting from mid 2020 as the mobile payment service provider stood out from the many bidding participants and was appointed the QR Code payment…
Transport company FedEx has launched a QR-code based mobile payment system in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Australia. The system, FedEx QR Pay (the QR stands for quick response), is targeted specifically at SMEs. Supplementing the…
Cashmaster Asia today announced the Introduction of Cashmaster QR-Connect, a QR code application providing enhanced software functionality for its Cashmaster One range of count-by-weight cash counting devices that offers an innovative, simple solution to…
