Pakorn Pattanapat, chief operating officer of CPN, said the company had linked with Bangkok Bank, Bangkok of Ayudhya, Government Savings Bank, Kasikornbank, Krungthai Bank and Siam Commercial Bank to the provide the QR code payment services. Pakorn said that during this quarter, the company will install the QR code readers in the shops that are spread across CPN shopping centres, such as Central World, Central Plaza and Central Festival. “The QR code payment will be part of the drive towards e-payment in this country. The QR Code payment will promote and support both shops and customers to do business transactions via online payment and encourage Thailand to adopt to the cashless society. We will work with business partners to offer promotions and provide privileges based on Big Data derived from this programme to spur payments through QR code payments.”CPN operates branches of Central World, Central Plaza and Central Festival across the country.

Source: The Nation Bangkok January 22, 2018 18:00 UTC