Tag: QR

Retail Asia11/10/2022
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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 trips in the evening or hanging out with friends at […]

Retail Asia29/09/2021
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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, their national real-time payment systems, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said in an […]

Retail Asia17/01/2020
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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 Card, is similar to Amazon Go, checkout-free offline malls in the US. One can […]

Retail Asia12/11/2019
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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 point of delivery. Businesses can provide their customers with a QR code generated by mCollect which can […]

Retail Asia16/04/2019
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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 make monthly bill payments via PayNow by scanning the QR Code on the […]

Retail Asia27/12/2018
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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 reward. Despite the sharp drop of visitors since 2017 – when […]

Retail Asia07/11/2018
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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 firm’s existing online payment methods, FedEx QR Pay is a secure mobile payment option activated by QR […]

Retail Asia15/10/2018
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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 integrating with back office or POS systems. When installed, count data is presented as a QR code on the display of the […]

Retail Asia10/10/2018
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This month, the Taiwan Cooperative Bank (TCB) and Visa have implemented what both call Taiwan’s first standardized and EMV-compliant QR code payment. Part of Financial Information Service Co.’s “Standardized QR Code Solutions,” the new EMV solution will be among the first large-scale deployments of standardized QR Code payments in Taiwan, initially covering more than 8,000 […]

Retail Asia24/10/2017
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After it introduced the first Quick Response (QR) code payments via app in the Philippines last May, PayMaya Philippines has announced that the scan-to-pay technology is now available across the country, with Smart Stores and select merchants in key cities allowing consumers to conveniently pay by simply scanning QR codes through their PayMaya app. Smart […]

Retail Asia02/08/2017
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QR-code payments have the potential to replace any other form of mobile payment according to new research. More than 1000 Chinese consumers and 60 decision-makers from global merchant companies were surveyed by mobile payments specialist Cancan and financial research company Kapronasia for the first global study covering the impact of Asian mobile POS payments worldwide. […]

Retail Asia28/07/2017
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Mastercard has detailed plans to expand its QR-based payment programs, starting this month. The company will broaden its solutions to offer QR codes that can be scanned by either consumers or merchants under a common set of global specifications. Mastercard worked with EMVCo and other industry players to create a new global QR standard. These standards […]

Retail Asia30/05/2017
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OCBC Bank has launched its first standalone mobile payments app which makes QR code cashless payments available at close to 2,500 NETS terminals. The new standalone OCBC Pay Anyone app brings together all OCBC Pay Anyone services and enhancements – peer-to-peer e-payments, QR code payments and access to OCBC Pay Anyone integrated with Apple iPhone’s […]

Retail Asia11/05/2017
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Top payment card companies Mastercard, UnionPay International and Visa have jointly introduced a standardized QR code for mobile payments in Thailand. The new standardized code allows merchants to easily accept electronic payments without the need to invest in physical point-of-sale machines. They need only have a piece of paper with their unique QR code for […]


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