By Tom Jarvis

With news this week that WhatsApp will launch a payment service later this year, Facebook is making its move to becoming a fully-fledged payments business official.

A force for financial inclusion?

The WhatsApp Pay program will roll-out in India before the end of 2019, following tests it has been running in the country since last February. India is a hugely important market for WhatsApp with over 400 million active users and the initial tests the company ran have ramped-up recently when in June, Facebook announced they had reached more than a million users.

Following the announcement, Will Cathcart, Global Head of Read full story ›

Source: The Drum