{"id":25628,"date":"2020-06-15T23:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T23:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2599224"},"modified":"2020-06-15T23:48:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T23:48:00","slug":"whatsapp-kicks-off-digital-payments-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/06\/15\/whatsapp-kicks-off-digital-payments-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp kicks off digital payments in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/4126-logo-1-469.png\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;\" link_thumbnail=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Using Facebook Pay, the messaging app aims to make sending money a little easier.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cnet2.cbsistatic.com\/img\/wAoowj_EsCnCDo1YuXwoGA-WbeU=\/756x567\/2020\/06\/15\/0d773cc6-5934-4e1a-b3da-6f9d7df52972\/screen-shot-2020-06-15-at-10-09-58-am.png\" width=\"598\" height=\"449\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakableTextP1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tags\/whatsapp\/\" data-annotation=\"true\" data-component=\"linkTracker\" data-link-tracker-options=\"{&quot;action&quot;:&quot;inline-annotation|WhatsApp|CNET_TAG|442&quot;}\" data-s-object-id=\"article-body;annotation\">WhatsApp<\/a>&nbsp;is bringing digital payments to its users in Brazil, according to a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.whatsapp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-component=\"externalLink\" data-s-object-id=\"article-body\">blog post&nbsp;<\/a>on Monday. The app&#8217;s payments are enabled through&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/facebook-pay-will-let-you-send-payments-on-messenger-whatsapp-and-instagram\/\" data-s-object-id=\"article-body\">Facebook Pay<\/a>, an online payment service the social media giant announced late last year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakableTextP2\">The expansion of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tags\/facebook\/\" data-annotation=\"true\" data-component=\"linkTracker\" data-link-tracker-options=\"{&quot;action&quot;:&quot;inline-annotation|Facebook|CNET_TAG|283&quot;}\" data-s-object-id=\"article-body;annotation\">Facebook<\/a>&nbsp;Pay on WhatsApp aims to let people safely and easily send money through the app, according to WhatsApp. The messaging app will require a special six digit PIN or fingerprint scan to prevent unauthorized transactions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakableTextP2\">Sending money or making a purchase using WhatsApp&#8217;s digital payments will be free for consumers, but businesses will pay a processing fee to receive customer payments, the company said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To use digital payments, Brazil users can link their credit or debit card. WhatsApp will be initially partnering with local Brazilian banks including Banco do Brasil, Nubank, Sicredi and Cielo.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook has partnered with Visa to help power the payment feature on WhatsApp in Brazil using&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/usa.visa.com\/run-your-business\/visa-direct.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-component=\"externalLink\" data-s-object-id=\"article-body\">Visa Direct<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/usa.visa.com\/partner-with-us\/payment-technology\/visa-token-service.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-component=\"externalLink\" data-s-object-id=\"article-body\">Cloud Tokenization<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Payments on WhatsApp are only available in Brazil so far, but the app said it looks forward to bringing digital payments to more countries in the future. WhatsApp didn&#8217;t immediately respond to a request asking when the feature would come to the US.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook Pay is already available on Facebook and Messenger in the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n<div><strong>See Campaign: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/whatsapp-kicks-off-digital-payments-in-brazil\/#ftag=CAD-01-10aai3d\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/whatsapp-kicks-off-digital-payments-in-brazil\/#ftag=CAD-01-10aai3d<\/a><br \/><b>Contact Information:<\/b><br \/>Alexandra Garrett<\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/wire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/global-regions\/united-states\/\" rel=\"category tag\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/language\/english\/\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"cwdfimg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p>Alexandra Garrett<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/4126-logo-1-469.png\" alt=\"\">Using Facebook Pay, the messaging app aims to make sending money a little easier. WhatsApp&nbsp;is bringing digital payments to its users in Brazil, according to a&nbsp;blog post&nbsp;on Monday. The app&rsquo;s payments are enabled through&nbsp;Facebook Pay, an online payment service the social media giant announced late last year.&nbsp; The expansion of&nbsp;Facebook&nbsp;Pay on WhatsApp aims to let &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/06\/15\/whatsapp-kicks-off-digital-payments-in-brazil\/\">Continue reading <span>WhatsApp kicks off digital payments in Brazil<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/06\/15\/whatsapp-kicks-off-digital-payments-in-brazil\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-united-states","category-wire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>WhatsApp kicks off digital payments in Brazil - Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/06\/15\/whatsapp-kicks-off-digital-payments-in-brazil\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WhatsApp kicks off digital payments in Brazil - Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Using Facebook Pay, the messaging app aims to make sending money a little easier. 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