eZ Cash Launches Sri Lanka's First QR Enabled Payment Facility for Microfinance Loans

L- R: Malintha De Silva - Chief Financial Officer (CFO) – VisionFund Lanka, Arunasiri Gunarathne- Specialist – Mobile Money – Digital Services, Padmanath Muthukumarana- Senior Manager – Mobile Money – Digital Services, Renuka Fernando- Group Chief Digital Services Officer, Dialog Axiata PLC, Dinesh Kanagaratnam - Chief Executive Officer (CEO) , Shalinka Fernando - IT Project Manager , Rizanth Francis - Chief Operating Officer (COO) , Sevvandi Abeysinghe - Human Resource Manager , Priveen Joseph - Risk and Compliance Manager , Lakshan Fernando - Internal Audit Manager- VisionFund Lanka

eZ Cash, the country’s first and largest mobile money and payment service by Dialog Axiata PLC, Sri Lanka’s premier connectivity provider, partnered VisionFund Lanka, a leading socially responsible microfinance institution affiliated with World Vision Lanka and also a subsidiary of VisionFund International, to facilitate customers with a convenient and sustainable QR card repayment facility for their microfinance loans.

A digitally inclusive solution to sustain VisionFund Lanka’s client pool, this strategic partnership has revolutionized the microfinance loan repayment system with the launch of the QR card loan repayment facility. This mechanism empowers all VisionFund Lanka customers to produce and scan their respective QR cards at the nearest eZ cash retail outlet for a quick and efficient way to access their loan details, providing not only financial accessibility to individuals living in rural areas but also acts as a vital step forward in carrying out financial transactions easily, safely, and virtually. Presently, the card is available to be collected by customers from the nearest VisionFund Lanka offices. As of 2019, VisionFund Lanka has been serving over 30,000 families in rural areas across the island, empowering small and SME businesses with much needed financial support.

As a progressive step forward in VisionFund Lanka’s digitization journey, Dinesh Kanagaratnam, CEO of VisionFund Lanka said “The timing of this launch is opportune as the need for faster, safer and easier ways of conducting financial transactions is vital, now more than ever - and we are excited to be able to extend this facility to our clients predominantly living in rural settings. We are happy to partner with Dialog on this journey of ours to serve sustainably and will continue to explore innovative solutions to provide easily-accessible financial facilities to the communities we serve”.

Renuka Fernando, Group Chief Digital Services Officer of Dialog Axiata PLC stated “Throughout the years eZ Cash has been at the forefront of providing sustainable, innovative solutions to digitize payments and collections of our partners and customers. This inclusive QR enabled micro-finance loan repayment solution will be one of the many steps taken in our journey of enabling an efficient, seamless and hassle-free collection process”