Visa has announced that mVisa, its QR-based payment service, is now live in India, Kenya and Rwanda, and will soon be available to merchants and consumers in Egypt, Ghana, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Pakistan and Vietnam, according to a press release.

"Customers have told us they appreciate how fast and easy it is to use mVisa," Uttam Nayak, senior vice president of digital for emerging markets at Visa, said in a statement. "Small merchants using mVisa for the first time are most excited about how quickly and securely they receive electronic payments without having to invest into expensive point-of-sale infrastructure."

Visa first tested mVisa in India two years ago.