{"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='BFC FinTech Monitor 1st \u2013 18th January'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/bfc-fintech-monitor-1st-18th-january\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/6863-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-15690\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-15690'>\n\t\t\t\tBFC FinTech Monitor 1st \u2013 18th January\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Banking in the Metaverse'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/banking-in-the-metaverse\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/minimal-white-style-video-player-template-design_1017-254811-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-17164\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-17164'>\n\t\t\t\tBanking in the Metaverse\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Video: how artificial intelligence can power payment authorization'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/video-how-artificial-intelligence-can-power-payment-authorization\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/How-it-works-Visa-s-artificial-intelligence-A.I.-for-payment-authorization-and-fraud-detection-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-14467\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-14467'>\n\t\t\t\tVideo: how artificial intelligence can power payment authorization\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}]}}