eSewa Fonepay and UnionPay International sign agreement for QR code payment solution

 eSewa Fonepay Pvt. Ltd and UnionPay International Co. Ltd signed an agreement to launch a QR code based mobile payment solution in Nepal. Through this, UnionPay customers from Nepal as well as abroad can make mobile payments using QR codes at various merchant outlets in the country.
Mr. Shuan Philip Ghaidan, product Director of UnionPay International Co. Ltd. (UPI) inaugurated the ceremony on December 11, 2018 held in Hattisar, Kathmandu at the premises of F1Soft International Pvt. Ltd, the parent company of eSewa Fonepay. Mr. Biswas Dhakal, chairman and president of F1Soft signed the agreement on behalf of eSewa Fonepay.
QR payment is a frictionless mobile payment method which is an alternative to costly electronic fund transfers such as card payments at point of sale using a payment terminals.

eSewa Fonepay has clinched the strategic partnership with UnionPay International (UPI), a subsidiary of China’s national bankcard association UnionPay, which enjoys partnerships with over 300 organizations globally and has enabled card acceptance in over 170 countries with its card issued in more than 30 countries and QR code payment enabled in 26 countries. UnionPay International provides high quality, cost effective and secure cross-border payment services to the world’s largest cardholder base and ensures convenient local services to a growing number of global UnionPay cardholders and merchants. 
eSewa Fonepay is Nepal’s first and leading online payment processor with over 35K agents, 1K merchants and 49 member banks in its network. The company currently employs 400 people.