{"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='Five countries getting rid of cash'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/five-countries-getting-rid-of-cash\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/five-countries-getting-rid-of-cash-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-10832\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-10832'>\n\t\t\t\tFive countries getting rid of cash\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Sberbank, Yandex launch instantaneous B2B payment platform'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/sberbank-yandex-launch-instantaneous-b2b-payment-platform\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/sberbank-yandex-launch-instantaneous-b2b-payment-platform-e1550565359241-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-12289\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-12289'>\n\t\t\t\tSberbank, Yandex launch instantaneous B2B payment platform\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='TBC bank \u2014 first one to use chatbot for communication with clients'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/tbc-bank-first-one-to-use-chatbot-for-communication-with-clients\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TBC-660x330-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-7556\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-7556'>\n\t\t\t\tTBC bank \u2014 first one to use chatbot for communication with clients\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}]}}