Singapore's OCBC Bank has launched a mobile keyboard that allows customers to make peer-to-peer payments without having to exit their current mobile applications.
The OCBC Keyboard can be used within any mobile app or browser, for instance, within Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram or Chrome, to send money instantly to anyone with a bank account in Singapore, including those who have not yet registered for PayNow.
The payment rides on the OCBC Pay Anyone e-payment service and can be done using just the recipient’s mobile number, the bank demonstrated in a digital media release.
Cashless Payments Increasing
The OCBC Keyboard follows on the heels of OCBC Bank’s launch of e-payments integrated with Apple’s Siri and iMessage for iPhone users in 2016, enabling customers to make instant funds transfers with a voice command to Siri or within the iMessage app while engaged in a chat.
In alignment with Singapore’s Smart Nation agenda and its drive to go cashless, the OCBC Keyboard is the latest in a series of OCBC Pay Anyone e-payment services that OCBC Bank has introduced to encourage customers to embrace the move away from cash.
Ambition to be Frictionless
Aditya Gupta, OCBC Bank’s Head of E-Business Singapore, said, «With OCBC Keyboard, we are embedding payments in our customers’ lives and making it completely frictionless for them to pay while they go about everyday tasks.»
«We will continue to push the boundaries on e-payments and move the needle in driving Singapore towards becoming cashless,» Gupta added.
