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Paytm now enabled for third party UPI app mobile payments

Jorge Gonzalez
Mobile payments - Person using payment app

The Indian company has now officially announced the implementation of this new app feature. Paytm, a mobile payments company from India, has announced that it has implemented a new feature making it possible to make UPI transactions to phones registered with third party UPI applications. The goal of the feature is to make it faster and easier for users to complete money transfers. By using this new feature, Paytm users can use the mobile payments app to complete money transfers quickly and easily when sending to any phone number, even…

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Google Pay in India tests NFC based payment technology

Sam Lambert
Google Pay in India - person using Google Pay

The mobile payments platform is using credit and debit cards to trial the tech in the country. Google Pay in India has launched a new pilot for a near field communication (NFC) based feature to be used to complete contactless payments. The idea is to use enabled debit and credit cards to test NFC before rolling out wider mobile tap. NFC would make it possible for Google Pay in India to provide contactless or tap payments across the country. Considering that there are over a billion people in that market,…

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Nearly one million people in India are testing WhatsApp payments

Sam Lambert
WhatsApp Payments Service - WhatsApp App

India is WhatsApp’s biggest market. With 210 million monthly WhatsApp users, India is clearly WhatsApp’s biggest market. Still, in spite of the Facebook messaging app’s so far successful test of WhatsApp payments service in the country, the digital payments system has yet to become a nationwide service. WhatsApp began testing its payments service back in February of last year. Since WhatsApp payments began testing in February 2018, the service has processed about a million transactions per month. This is according to people close to the National Payments Corporation of India…

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