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WhatsApp Pay gets go-ahead in India after fulfilling data-localization norms

( November 5, 2020, 22:29 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: WhatsApp Pay has been given approval in India to go live after months of wrangling over rules that require it to store payment data only on servers located in India. WhatsApp launched its payment service in India — where the messaging service has more than 400 million users — in early 2018, but couldn't scale it beyond one million users until it was in compliance with the rules. On Thursday, the National Payments Corporation of India said WhatsApp would work with multiple banks to roll out its payments service in a graded manner, starting with 20 million users. The press release is attached. ...

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