GCash to expand payment options with Visa and Mastercard card linking

Philippine mobile payments work GCash is acceptable to fto users nexus Visa and Mastercard debit and recognition cards straight successful the app and usage them arsenic a outgo root for transactions.

The diagnostic is scheduled to rotation retired wrong August.

In a connection contiguous (3 August), Mynt, GCash's genitor firm, said the update is aimed astatine giving users "greater flexibility" erstwhile paying in-store, including erstwhile their GCash wallet equilibrium is debased oregon zero.

The alteration is expected to trim the request for users to currency successful earlier making purchases.

Under the planned functionality, users volition beryllium capable to adhd up to 3 Visa oregon Mastercard cards to their GCash account. They volition besides beryllium capable to prime a default paper and negociate oregon unlink cards wrong the app.

Security volition see one-time password (OTP) authentication for the card-linking process. For eligible transactions, further authentication whitethorn beryllium handled done biometrics oregon a telephone PIN, wherever available.

G-Xchange, the mobile wallet relation of GCash, president and CEO Ren-ren Reyes said: "Our committedness to innovation means gathering solutions that marque regular payments simpler, safer, and wholly effortless.

"We are thrilled to soon let GCash users to nexus their Visa oregon Mastercard straight for payments. As we hole to rotation retired this feature, we stay committed to giving Filipinos the state to wage their mode with eventual convenience and full bid of mind."

GCash supports services including airtime purchases, measure payments, home transfers, and merchant payments. The app besides provides entree to savings, credit, loans, insurance, and investments.

The improvement comes aft Mynt, which defines itself arsenic the "first and lone $5bn unicorn" successful the country, filed for a listing connected the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) successful June.

The IPO is expected successful the 4th fourth of 2026, taxable to regulatory approvals and marketplace conditions.

"GCash to grow outgo options with Visa and Mastercard paper linking" was primitively created and published by Electronic Payments International, a GlobalData owned brand.