Grameenphone introduces bKash as preferred payment partner

Leading mobile phone operator Grameenphone recently introduced mobile financial service provider bKash as its preferred payment partner.

bKash will be the primary payment option to facilitate one tap payment experience for the customers in the MyGP app of the mobile phone operator, according to a joint statement released on Wednesday.

Grameenphone customers can now avail quick and seamless payment through bKash.

Yasir Azman, chief executive officer of Grameenphone, and Kamal Quadir, chief executive officer of bKash, launched the new service at GPHouse in Dhaka.

"Grameenphone and bKash have collaborated to make our customer payment experience within MyGP more simplified, convenient and faster with the one tap payment solution," said the Grameenphone CEO.

 "We will keep working in such a way so that others can also implement it in the future…our aim is to facilitate easy and convenient services for customers," said bKash CEO.

This integration, which is the first of its kind in the industry, will simplify the digital lifestyle of the customers with hassle-free, convenient and secured payment with one tap, according to the statement.

Once a customer binds bKash as the preferred payment method, he/she will no longer need to put in OTP/PIN every time and the payment will be done with a tap of digital consent from the bKash account on the go.

Solaiman Alam, chief digital and strategy officer of GP, and Mohammad Sajjad Hasib, chief marketing officer, and Mohammad Azmal Huda, chief product and technology officer of bKash, and Ali Ahmmed, chief commercial officer, were present.