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WhatsApp Looks to Launch Payments Services in India This Year

July 29, 2019

WhatsApp Looks to Launch Payments Services in India This Year

Will Cathcart who is the Global Head of WhatsApp said that the top messaging app looks to roll out a payments service for Indian users later this year. He said that the company wants to make sending money on the platform as easy as sending a message.

WhatsApp, which has around 1.5 billion users around the world and 400 million in India alone has been wanting to launch a dedicated payments service in India for quite some time now. However, the government threw a spanner in its works by raising issues for its data storage practices and authentication features.

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