KARACHI: Pakistan’s leading mobile wallet, Easypaisa, was granted another international accolade as it bagged the ‘Emerging Payments Award 2020’ for the “Best Financial Inclusion Payments Initiative”.
The Emerging Payments Awards is the UK industry’s most prestigious event and were organized for the 13th time.
The awards celebrate innovation and collaboration by recognizing companies that have made significant advances in digital payments.
The winners were announced at the virtual Emerging Payments Awards ceremony that was streamed online due to the coronavirus pandemic situation.
The Pakistani digital payment platform was one of the two winners out of four contestants that won the award.
“It is a matter of great pride for us at Easypaisa to become the winner of the prestigious Emerging Payments Award for 2020 and we are ecstatic, to say the least”, Easypaisa and Telenor Microfinance Bank President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO) M. Mudassar Aqil said on the achievement.
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He jubilantly expressed that Easypaisa has always strived to play the role of an enabler for the digital financial inclusion of the masses, and this recognition further strengthens our resolve to play our part in the development of a digital ecosystem.
In Pakistan, the digital payment service is serving millions of people every day, Aqil added.
CEO vowed to continue building the Easypaisa platform through which all Pakistanis will be able to participate in the country’s formal economy.
The platform also bagged ‘The Innovators 2020’ Award in May this year for the second consecutive time in the field of payments by the Global Finance Magazine.