Norway’s Vipps and Finland’s ePassi have adopted Alipay’s QR Code standard to enable interoperability for the four million users of their mobile wallets.
Under the agreement, consumers will be able to use their home app to scan the QR code of the partner scheme from 2019. Merchant partners will also benefit when they are able to accept QR Code payments from their domestic customers and also use the same unmodified system to welcome the payments of visitors from other Nordic countries as well as Chinese tourists.
Vipps is the most popular payment app in Norway used by over 76% of locals, while ePassi has the widest QR code compatible mobile payment network in Nordics with over 25,000 merchants accepting its payments already.