{"id":162810,"date":"2019-09-18T00:36:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T16:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/?p=255369"},"modified":"2019-09-18T00:36:24","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T16:36:24","slug":"whatsapp-plans-india-payment-launch-by-end-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/09\/18\/whatsapp-plans-india-payment-launch-by-end-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp plans India payment launch by end-2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        \tWhatsApp India head Abhijit Bose voiced confidence its delayed payments service would finally be launched commercially by the end of this year, The Economic Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview primarily focused on its business services, WhatsApp&#8217;s regional chief said he remained hopeful its long-awaited cash transfer service would be available in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>He added the addition of payments to its platform would remove friction for business users of the app.<\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp began beta-testing its payment service for the Indian market in February 2018 [1] and has reportedly been on the verge of a launch several times before running into regulatory issues.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to issues directly related to payments it has faced problems with the country\u2019s authorities about its core messaging service [2].<\/p>\n<p>Since beginning its pilot, India&#8217;s mobile payment market has become increasingly crowded with several major players entering including Google, Hike and Amazon [3]. This is in addition to long-term sector rivals such as Paytm.<\/p>\n<p>Despite facing issues introducing the service in India, the company is reportedly in talks on launching payments on WhatsApp in other markets [4].<\/p>\n<p>In May, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of WhatsApp parent Facebook, announced the company planned to launch cash transfer in a number of countries in 2019.<\/p>\n[1] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/apps\/news-apps\/whatsapp-to-launch-money-service-in-india\/<br \/>\n[2] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/apps-home-banner\/whatsapp-faces-fresh-pressure-in-india\/<br \/>\n[3] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/money-home-banner\/amazon-makes-india-p2p-payment-play\/<br \/>\n[4] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/money\/news-money\/whatsapp-hunts-for-mobile-payments-partners\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp India head Abhijit Bose voiced confidence its delayed payments service would finally be launched &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/money-home-banner\/whatsapp-plans-india-payment-launch-by-end-2019\/\">WhatsApp plans India payment launch by end-2019<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/\">Mobile World Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/09\/18\/whatsapp-plans-india-payment-launch-by-end-2019\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2,4100,2419,2070,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,499,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,787,786,784,782,783,764,785,403,412,411,395,405,404,778,779,780,781],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-GlY","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162811,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162810\/revisions\/162811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}