KUALA LUMPUR: The surge in RHB Banking Group’s merchant transactions over the past year has seen the banking group raising the benchmark by integrating the DuitNow QR via application programming interface (API) connectivity.

Its head of group transaction banking, Chung Chee Kai said transactions have been growing rapidly over the past year, or more than a 10-fold increase to about 120, 000 transactions as at end-May 2021.