From left: GCash account manager Jamie
Tiu, head of public sector
and partnerships Lhen Pavia, head of enterprise and public sector Luigi
Reyes, Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto, district representative
Cong. Roman Romulo, City Vice Mayor Dodot Jaworski Jr., and City Administrator Atty. Jeronimo Manzanero
The City Government of Pasig has partnered with GCash, the country’s
leading e-wallet, to roll out the QR Ph initiative at the Pasig City Mega
Market. This will enable market vendors, tricycle operators, and drivers to
offer safer and more convenient digital payment options to their customers.
With this partnership now in place, public market vendors and tricycle
drivers at Pasig City Mega Market can now easily transact with their customers
and passengers using the GCash QR. Moreover, GCash celebrated this launch by
giving customers weeklong exciting GTreats – Piso Pizza Slice and Piso
Halo-Halo when they pay using GCash.
The partnership was formalized during a recent event that was graced by
the key Pasig City government officials namely City Mayor Vico Sotto, City Vice
Mayor Dodot Jaworksi, Jr., Congressman Roman Romulo, City Councilor Simon
Romulo Tantoco, City Councilor and Chairman of the committee on Market Rosalio
Martires, City Administrator Atty. Jeronimo Manzanero, officer-in-charge, Pasig
Public Market Administration Joseph Vincent Pastor Molina, and
officer-in-charge, Management Information Systems Office John Carlo Fatallo.
They were also joined by representatives from the GCash team namely Head of
Enterprise and Public Sector Luigi Reyes, Cluster Head of Public Sector and
Partnerships Cathlyn Pavia, Team Lead for LGU Rose Abarquez, and Account Manager
Jamie Tiu.
“The local government of Pasig is very happy to enter into this MOA
(memorandum of agreement) with you. Siguro sasamantalahin ko na rin ‘yung
pagkakataon to make sure that we are all on the same page. Tayo po ay tungo sa
digitalization, tayo po ay tungo po sa smart city model,” Sotto said.
Aside from the Pasig City partnership, GCash is looking forward to
establishing more tie-ups with other LGUs in line with the PalengQR PH
initiative by the BSP and DILG.
Paleng-QR Ph was launched by Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) and the
Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) in June to promote
cashless QR transactions among market vendors, community shopkeepers, and
tricycle drivers to further expand the country’s digital payments ecosystem.
With its vision of pushing “Finance for All,” GCash is constantly on the
lookout for more opportunities to empower more Filipinos, especially the
unbanked sector all over the region and to push for the acceptance of digital
payments among market vendors, community shopkeepers, tricycle operators, and
drivers in all cities and municipalities in the Philippines.
