{"id":3749,"date":"2016-09-01T09:51:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T09:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitaldips.pk\/?p=3749"},"modified":"2016-09-01T09:53:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T09:53:58","slug":"jazzcash-joins-hands-access-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/2016\/09\/01\/jazzcash-joins-hands-access-group\/","title":{"rendered":"JazzCash Joins Hands with Access Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JazzCash has announced a strategic alliance with Access Group for nationwide retail payment acceptance.<\/p>\n<p>Expanding the reach of innovative payments, this collaboration will utilize state-of-the-art digital methods for acceptance of JazzCash at designated retail outlets on Access Group\u2019s network.<\/p>\n<p>One such innovative payment method to be promoted under this agreement is JazzCash\u2019s recently launched near field communication (NFC) payment solution. \u00a0This technology has gained popularity in both developed and developing markets primarily due to its ability to improve customer experience, security and merchant sales.<\/p>\n<p>The partnership will also assist JazzCash in scaling up merchant payments throughout the country as it looks to serve as a foundation stone towards mobile payment eco system.<\/p>\n<p>In first phase, NFC &amp; USSD payments will be accepted at 500+ retail outlets in Karachi, Lahore &amp; Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p>In phase two of the partnership, JazzCash will add QR codes to its financial suite which will enable customers to pay seamlessly by simply scanning the unique QR code. Along with the NFC, USSD and QR code the partnership will cover more than 10,000 retail outlets nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe this alliance will benefit JazzCash users by expansion of our payment acceptance forecourts, while offering them security and convenience. We are pleased to be partnering with Access Group, for enablement of this unique payment service,\u201d said Aniqa Afzal Sandhu, VP Digital &amp; Mobile Financial Services \u2013 Mobilink.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrough this strategic alliance, we aim to open new avenues for JazzCash\u2019s acceptance via multiple channels in diverse market segments backed by a significant number of merchants who are onboard,\u201d said Imran Qureshi, President, Access Group, while expressing his views on this partnership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a proud moment for us at Access Group to be partnering with Pakistan\u2019s leading mobile financial services provider,\u201d he further added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JazzCash has announced a strategic alliance with Access Group for nationwide retail payment acceptance. Expanding the reach of innovative payments, this collaboration will utilize state-of-the-art digital methods for acceptance of JazzCash at designated retail&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,181],"tags":[764,765,599],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3751,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749\/revisions\/3751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}