{"id":575808,"date":"2026-08-21T11:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T11:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/575808\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T11:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T11:28:11","slug":"tourists-can-now-make-qr-payments-with-wise-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/575808\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourists Can Now Make QR Payments With Wise in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Free Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Get the hottest Fintech Singapore News once a month in your Inbox<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fintechnews.sg\/tag\/Wise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Wise<\/a> customers can now scan and pay at LankaQR merchants across Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>The service is available to Wise customers from the UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia and Brazil while visiting the country.<\/p>\n<p>Operated by <a href=\"https:\/\/fintechnews.sg\/tag\/LankaPay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">LankaPay<\/a>, LankaQR is Sri Lanka\u2019s national interoperable QR payment network connecting participating financial institutions and merchants.<\/p>\n<p>LankaPay enabled the service through its existing partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/fintechnews.sg\/tag\/Alipay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Alipay+<\/a>, giving international visitors another way to pay local merchants.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/4qvmpX2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/0508-Webinar-Thunes-600x500-ezgif.com-optimize-2.gif\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" role=\"presentation\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-nosnippet=\"\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\"\/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-136122\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Channa-de-Silva-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Channa de Silva\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"  \/>Channa de Silva<\/p>\n<p>Channa de Silva, CEO of LankaPay announced the rollout on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/channadesilva_lankapay-reached-another-significant-landmark-share-7496406320657399808-9LOi\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAAB-NSo4BGI9vojv0tWjdrGDI2r-kRX9UFEA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">LinkedIn<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will be a significant boost to the existing partnership between LankaPay and Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority in working towards promoting Sri Lanka Tourism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Featured image: Edited by Fintech News Singapore, based on image by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.magnific.com\/premium-psd\/meeting-room-logo-mockup_73972367.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">logomockupmaster<\/a> via Magnific<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Free Newsletter Get the hottest Fintech Singapore News once a month in your Inbox Wise customers can now&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[18166,283587,342,111,139,69,145,56457],"class_list":["post-575808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-alipay","tag-lankapay","tag-mobile","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology","tag-wise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}