{"id":351297,"date":"2025-08-17T09:12:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T09:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/351297\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T09:12:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T09:12:22","slug":"myanmar-unifies-qr-code-payment-formats-boosting-convenience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/351297\/","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar unifies QR code payment formats, boosting convenience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/technology\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Technology<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Apps allow even the unbanked to access mobile payments, but issues persist<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/6\/9.jpeg\" alt=\"20250812N Myanmar QR codes\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">MMQR can replace the lengthy lists of QR codes that businesses in Myanmar now offer for different mobile payment apps. (Photo by Nikkei)<\/p>\n<p>Nikkei staff writers<\/p>\n<p>August 16, 2025 17:20 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">BANGKOK\/YANGON &#8212; A new QR code standard backed by Myanmar&#8217;s central bank is seeing widespread adoption in the Southeast Asian country, unifying codes from nearly a dozen mobile payment apps for greater convenience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Technology Apps allow even the unbanked to access mobile payments, but issues persist MMQR can replace the lengthy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3159],"tags":[124151,33477,2203,124150,547,95889,24879,124149,53,16,124148,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-351297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-boosting","9":"tag-code","10":"tag-convenience","11":"tag-formats","12":"tag-mobile","13":"tag-myanmar","14":"tag-payment","15":"tag-qr","16":"tag-technology","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-unifies","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115043339136722647","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}