{"id":10232,"date":"2018-07-10T08:48:37","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T08:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/?p=10232"},"modified":"2018-07-13T07:46:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T07:46:30","slug":"google-adds-messaging-to-its-tez-payment-app-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/google-adds-messaging-to-its-tez-payment-app-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Google adds messaging to its Tez payment app in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is adding a chat feature to its Tez payment app in India, allowing users to directly communicate via the app itself. Google launched Tez last year and claims to have more than 15 million registered users. The app started out as a peer-to-peer transfer service but now also allows users to pay bills such as gas, water and TV\/internet services through it.<\/p>\n<p>The move follows the introduction of peer-to-peer payments inside WhatsApp in India. Additionally, Paytm, India\u2019s leading mobile wallet service, has also bridged the messaging-payment gap, launching messaging capabilities last year. Paytm also plans on launching additional services (e.g. gaming options) to its platform in the near future.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"rpbt_shortcode\">\n\n<div id='rpbt-related-gallery-1' class='gallery related-gallery related-galleryid-10232 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Number of bank branches in the Czech Republic decreasing'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/number-of-bank-branches-in-the-czech-republic-decreasing\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/label-storefront-depression-vintage-road_1339-61-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-8884\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-8884'>\n\t\t\t\tNumber of bank branches in the Czech Republic decreasing\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='BFC FinTech Monitor 20th March \u2013 3rd April'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/bfc-fintech-monitor-20th-march-3rd-april\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/office-workers-analyzing-researching-business-data_74855-4445-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-14723\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-14723'>\n\t\t\t\tBFC FinTech Monitor 20th March \u2013 3rd April\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Finance sector ripe for IoT disruption'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/finance-sector-ripe-for-iot-disruption\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/finance-sector-ripe-for-iot-disruption-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-11985\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-11985'>\n\t\t\t\tFinance sector ripe for IoT disruption\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is adding a chat feature to its Tez payment app in India, allowing users to directly communicate via the app itself. Google launched Tez last year and claims to have more than 15 million registered users. The app started out as a peer-to-peer transfer service but now also allows users to pay bills such &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,404],"tags":[77,70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10232"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10359,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10232\/revisions\/10359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}