WhatsApp Pay expected to roll out in several countries over the next six months: Zuckerberg

New Delhi, Jan 30 (IANS) Despite a delay in launching WhatsApp pay in India owing to data compliance issues, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that the peer-to-peer, UPI-based payments feature will be rolled out in several countries in the next six months.Data compliance issues and regulations have kept WhatsApp Pay launch in abeyance for quite some time, despite a successful test run of the payments service with one million users in the country in 2018."We got approval to test this with one million people in India back in 2018. And when so many of the people kept using it week after week, we knew it was going to be big when we get to launch," Zuckerberg said during the company's earnings call on Thursday."I'm really excited about this, and I expect this to start rolling out in a number

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