Within the framework of the Wednesday announcement ceremony for the landmark smart city building project, the payment of public administrative services via MoMo e-wallet made first appearance in Da Nang. This makes the city become the first Vietnamese locality to implement the policy on promoting electronic payments under the national government-approved Resolution No 02/NQ-CP.

The payment of public administrative services is conducted via MoMo e-wallet

MoMo e-wallet provides an electronic payment solution to collect fees for public administrative services provided by local administrative agencies. These fees can be paid through the payment portal on the city’s e-government portal at https://egov.danang.gov.vn or use MoMo e-wallet app to conduct payments at the one-stop-shop of the municipal Public Administration Centre.

Mr. Nguyen Ba Diep, the Vice Chairman of the Online Mobile Services JSC, the provider of MoMo e-wallet, remarked, it is honour for MoMo to cooperate with Da Nang to provide electronic payment solutions for local public administrative service users, in line with the national government’s policy on promoting non-cash payments.

In particular, the application of MoMo e-wallet is really consistent with his company’s direction and goal of developing Vietnamese fintech products for use by Vietnamese people.

The city and the Online Mobile Services JSC completed the technical connection and officially put the service into operation on 2 April. They have also made bilateral cooperation to expand the electronic payment model for such other local services as apartment, parking, hospital and tuition fees, the consumption of water and electricity, and payments at restaurants, hotels and tourism facilities.

To mark the cooperation with the city, MoMo will exempt all users from money transfer fees via e-wallet until the end of this year, and will coordinate with the municipal Department of Information and Communications to encourage local citizens to adopt the habit of using non-cash payments.

With more than 100,000 payment points and a network of 8,000 agents around Viet Nam, MoMo has more than 12 million customers using e-wallets and helps 3.5 million customers in remote areas, where banking and smartphone services are still unpopular, to gain access to financial services.