News
Philippine central bank rolls out QR PH for person-to-merchant payments
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), the country’s central bank, launched the QR PH person-to-merchant (P2M) system that uses QR codes Read more…
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PayPal: pathfinder in mobile payments and setting direction for the industry
PayPal has been in the news recently for launching and enhancing services that are changing the way we pay for goods – and manage our money. Read more…
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Keeping up with the latest scams is hard, stressful and getting harder
The latest scams used to be a list that would appear weekly, or monthly. Now it is almost impossible to keep up. And they are everywhere. Read more…
Features
Cybercriminals eyeing QR codes – think before you scan
Quick response (QR) codes can be thought of in a similar way to URL shortening services – they provide instant access to information such as websites and contact information. They can also allow users to Read more…
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Chinese expand use of health tracking QR codes, privacy concerns grow
China’s health tracking QR codes, a key part in the country’s successful containment of coronavirus, now look set to play a much broader role Read more…
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China finally adopts PSD2-style security for digital payments
QR codes are everywhere because anyone can read them, anyone can use them, and anyone can write them. This is in part because there is no security infrastructure. The result in China, where there was Read more…
Off the Wire
Native readers to drive QR code usage over next five years
The number of QR code coupons redeemed via mobile will reach 5.3 billion by 2022, up from an estimated 1.3 billion in 2017, says a new study from Juniper Research. The new research finds that Read more…
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Thanks to Apple, NFC tags are finally a viable alternative to QR codes
A decade ago I remember writing that one of the problems with QR codes is that there is no security. Some years later I wrote an article pointing out that NFC ought to be safer than QR Read more…