Apple is reportedly having active discussions with Indian authorities and officials to bring Apple Pay to India. As of now, there is no timeline for the possible launch of the payment service.
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Users in India can now pay on the App Store and iTunes by using UPI, Rupay cards, and Net Banking. Previously, only Visa and MasterCard were accepted for the payments of these services.
Thanks to the most recent update released for the Truecaller app, many Indians may have found themselves automatically signed up for Truecaller's own payment service without their permission.
Google has yet again added messaging integration to another of its services, this time in Tez, its India-exclusive payments app, in an attempt to take on WhatsApp's upcoming in-chat payments feature.
Google has added new functionality to the Tez payments app in India which allows users to search for over 90 utility companies in order to quickly and easily get bill payments set up.
WhatsApp's new payment feature has brought concerns of creating "a closed garden" by India's payment market leader Paytm. However, the payments regulator defended WhatsApp stating that this is a beta.
Facebook looks close to launching mobile payments in India via WhatsApp. The messaging platform is a good place for Facebook to incorporate payments because it boasts a huge 200 million users.
After reports late last week, it appears that Google is rolling out Tez, a mobile payment app leveraging India's Unified Payments Interface (UPI) framework with support for three banks.
Google will reportedly be unveiling its new digital payments system, dubbed Google Tez, on the 18th of September. The system could allow users to transfer money between bank accounts on their mobiles.
With mobile payments attracting major popularity in India, it appears that WhatsApp has been in discussions with the country's government to integrate with one of the emerging local payment systems.
