Become a partner

DISCUSSION "QR Payment: A Revolution in Digital Payments"

Anton Giertli - AppDev Architect, RED HAT · Martin Mĺkvy - IT Consultant, eGroup Solutions · Stanislav Pavlovič - , Financial Directorate of the Slovak Republic · Lukáš Šoltés - Vice-dean and Vice-chairman of the Council of Universities of the Slovak Republic, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava ·

QR payments via instant transfers aim to make cashless payments cheaper for merchants and reduce opportunities for tax evasion. The project was a collaboration between the Financial Administration, a university team from FIIT STU, and technology partners Red Hat and Group Solutions. The result is a simple yet robust solution designed to run 24/7 and scale as needed.

Why QR payments and who is behind them

The impetus was the experience from the pandemic: taxes, especially VAT, are collected more effectively with cashless payments. The goal is for merchants to be required to offer at least one cashless payment method, without having to invest in terminals right away. Therefore, the Financial Administration leveraged existing access to eKasa and prepared a solution with a QR payment via instant transfer and a notification of payment. FIIT STU (application logic), Group Solutions (architecture), and Red Hat (platform for operation) took part in the development.

Read more

Sign in to ITAPA Health & Care 2026
Sign in

Lukáš Šoltés

Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
He graduated from the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, where he obtained his PhD and later also the scientific and pedagogical title of associate professor in the field of applied informatics. He worked as an Experienced Researcher within the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen and t…

Anton Giertli

RED HAT
Anton Giertli is a Senior Solution Architect at Red Hat, where he mainly focuses on the development of the Slovak and Czech markets in the field of Cloud, containerization and digitization. He has extensive experience in the field of application development, which he gained mainly as a consultant for the British banking sector, where he particip…

Stanislav Pavlovič

Financial Directorate of the Slovak Republic

Martin Mĺkvy

eGroup Solutions
He works as an IT consultant at eGroup Solutions, where he specializes in deploying Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes, both orchestrated container platforms. His work focuses mainly on the infrastructure level - from designing and building cloud-native environments to automating operations through modern DevOps practices. He has experience implem…

Recommendation speakers

Johanna-Kadri Kuusk

e-Estonia Briefing Centre

Vanda Tuxhorn

Head of the Department of Pediatrics and Neonatology, Landau in der Pfalz, Germany

Christian Kumar

Capital Kinetics

Lukáš Benzl

Czech Association of Artificial Intelligence
Páčil sa ti článok? Zdieľaj ho a povedz o ňom aj ostatným