To advance digital payments for Government fees: LANDBANK onboards 72 LGU digital merchants in Q1 2023

The Land Bank of the Philippines (LANDBANK) is ramping up its campaign of advancing convenient and efficient digital payments by onboarding 72 Local Government Units (LGUs) to its Link.BizPortal payment platform in the first three months of 2023.

The LGUs onboarded among others were: the Provincial Governments of Nueva Vizcaya, Marinduque, and Guimaras; the City Governments of San Carlos (Pangasinan), Bacolod, Tanjay, Guihulngan, Sagay, Pagadian, Kidapawan; and 62 municipalities nationwide.

Through LANDBANK’s digital payment platform, customers can skip long queues and save time by paying online for local government fees, dues, and charges.

“LANDBANK is supporting local government partners to leverage on technology and deliver convenient and responsive public services. We are also encouraging customers to adopt digital payments towards building a cash-lite society,” said LANDBANK President and CEO Cecilia Cayosa Borromeo.

LANDBANK is offering a menu of digital products and services to all local governments nationwide, in support of Executive Order 170 or the Adoption of Digital Payments for Government Disbursement and Collections.

In total, LANDBANK has onboarded 100 new Link.BizPortal partner merchants this year, including State Universities and Colleges (SUCs); National Government Agencies (NGAs), water districts, and private merchants.

The Link.BizPortal is LANDBANK’s web-based payment channel that allows clients to pay for products and services online to 1,236 government and private partner merchants nationwide.

As of the first quarter of 2023, the LANDBANK Link.BizPortal has facilitated close to 2.2 million transactions, representing increases of 58% year-on-year.

LANDBANK targets to onboard more government and private merchants to over 1,603 merchants by end-2023.

LANDBANK’s digital transformation fully supports the National Government’s digital and financial inclusion agenda in line with its expanded mandate of serving the nation.