Banking transactions, mobile payments grow sharply in first four months

Non-cash payments continue to boom in Vietnam this year as the country has seen a surge in banking transactions and mobile payments in the first four months of the year, according to an official from the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV).
Banking transactions, mobile payments grow sharply in first four months ảnh 1A seminar on cashless society is held in Ho Chi Minh City on June 12 to discuss cashless payment. (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – Non-cash payments continue to boom in Vietnam this year as the country has seen a surge in bankingtransactions and mobile payments in the first four months of the year,according to an official from the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV).

Banking transactions and mobile payments are experiencingimpressive growth in Vietnam when it comes to both the number of users andvalue of transactions, head of the SBV’s payment department Pham Tien Dung tolda seminar on cashless society held in Ho Chi Minh City on June 12.

In the first four months of the year, the number of domesticbanking transactions grew 26.2 percent with value expanding 15.7 percent. As ofthe end of March, the number of banking accounts reached 103.1 million, up 22.4percent from the end of 2017, Dung said.

Notably, mobile payments increased sharply by 189 percent innumber and 166 percent in value from a year earlier, he added.

He attributed the growth to the development of IT andtelecommunications, thanks to which banks have created a variety of new user-friendlycashless payment services, such as mobile banking, Internet banking and bankcardpayment.

Vietnamese banks have quickly integrated latesttechnologies, including fingerprint authentication and facial recognition, intotheir mobile banking apps to provide customers with much more convenientexperience, he added.

Nguyen Ba Diep, Executive Vice Chairman and Co-founder ofMoMo, one of Vietnam’s leading providers of mobile payment solutions, said MoMo debuted 13 years ago and in the first 10 years, the e-wallet has struggled togain access to users because most of Vietnamese preferred cash and not manyshops accepted this payment service at that time.

But things have changed, Diep said, MoMo has about 20million users today, more than half of whom started using the services over thelast three years.

He further noted that the development of digital economy andthe government’s policies to encourage cashless payments for public services,such as payments of taxes, tuition fees and medical services, have smoothed theway for this payment service to take off./.
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