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Hike Messenger is set to launch a payments mechanism on its app that will be linked to the government-backed unified payments interface (UPI), a move that can make the messaging app the first in India to have the capability ahead of peers such as WhatsApp .
The app is holding talks with an Indian bank to support the back end of the payments service, one of the people quoted above said. Hike Messenger declined comment. The messaging platform had told ET last November that it will look at integrating payments into the app and making the messenger a platform for making purchases from the app, a model which has a lot of resemblance with WeChat, the Chinese super-app backed by Tencent.
hike: Hike may roll out payments platform ahead of WhatsApp, Telecom News, ET Telecom
The app is holding talks with an Indian bank to support the back end of the payments service, one of the people quoted above said. Hike Messenger declined comment. The messaging platform had told ET last November that it will look at integrating payments into the app and making the messenger a platform for making purchases from the app, a model which has a lot of resemblance with WeChat, the Chinese super-app backed by Tencent.
hike: Hike may roll out payments platform ahead of WhatsApp, Telecom News, ET Telecom
