Whatsapp gets approval to launch payments feature in India.
Whatsapp,which has over 400 million users in India,its biggest market,will compete with Alphabet Inc’s Google Pay,Softbank and Alibaba backed Paytm,and Walmart’s PhonePe.
“WhatsApp can expand its Unified Payments Interface (UPI) user base in a graded manner starting with a maximum registered user base of 20 million,” the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) said in a statement.
