Whatsapp has added alot of features. the app allow users to make video & audio calls & the text messages send through it all are encrypted using 256-bit encryption.
And if all of that wasn’t enough, the Facebook-owned app is apparently planning to foray in digital payment in India soon. As per a report published in Livemint, the company has advertised to hire a digital transactions lead in the country.
With over 200 million users in the country, India is WhatsApp’s biggest market and the move by the app is a replica of WeChat’s similar feature in China.
Citing an unknown source, The Ken reported that WhatsApp is working to launch a person-to-person payment in India in the next six months.
Apparently, a job advertisement on WhatsApp’s website said it was looking for a candidate with a technical and financial background – who understands India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and the BHIM payments app. Integrating these apps in WhatsApp would enable money transfers and merchant payments using mobile numbers, making it a lead in the sector in the country
“India is an important country for WhatsApp, and we’re understanding how we can contribute more to the vision of Digital India,” a WhatsApp spokesman said.
“We’re exploring how we might work with companies that share this vision and continuing to listen closely to feedback from our users,” he added, declining to elaborate further.
The Digital India programme is a flagship programme of the Government of India with a vision to transform India into a digitally empowered economy and WhatsApp apparently wants to cash on the same. Co-founder Brian Acton had admitted to being in talks with the Indian government about the feature in February and another popular app Truecaller too had introduced a similar feature in the country based on the UPI platform.
