{"id":646886,"date":"2026-08-20T08:01:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T08:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/646886\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T08:01:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T08:01:15","slug":"philippines-races-toward-cashless-future-as-digital-payments-hit-64-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/646886\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines races toward cashless future as digital payments hit 64.7%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/finance\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Finance<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Nation&#8217;s unified &#8216;QR Ph&#8217; helps narrow the gap with Southeast Asia&#8217;s payment pioneers<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/7\/8.jpeg\" alt=\"COPIED: 20211102 cashless image\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Digital wallets such as GCash and Maya, along with the QR Ph network, have helped accelerate the Philippines&#8217; shift toward cashless payments. (File photo)<\/p>\n<p>RAMON ROYANDOYAN<\/p>\n<p>August 20, 2026 11:15 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">MANILA &#8212; Digital channels accounted for nearly two-thirds of all retail transactions in the Philippines in 2025, buoyed by the rapid adoption of national QR standards and policy support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Finance Nation&#8217;s unified &#8216;QR Ph&#8217; helps narrow the gap with Southeast Asia&#8217;s payment pioneers Digital wallets such as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[257],"tags":[273725,24046,2672,18,299,44314,19,17,279,4592,8953,151380,82],"class_list":["post-646886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-273725","tag-cashless","tag-digital","tag-eire","tag-future","tag-hit","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mobile","tag-payments","tag-philippines","tag-races","tag-technology"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117126791386054427","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}