Facebook selects London as hub for WhatsApp Payments

London: Before it launches WhatsApp Pay in India, Facebook has selected London as base for the global roll-out of its digital payments service on the mobile messaging platform.
According to a report in the Financial Times on Wednesday, WhatsApp would hire nearly 100 people in London to focus on the digital payments service and additional operations staff would be hired in Dublin.
WhatsApp has 1.5 billion users globally, including over 300 million in India.
The new highly-skilled technical engineering staff would build a payments function as well as products that focus on safety and spam on the app, the report said.
“WhatsApp is a truly global service and these teams will help us provide WhatsApp payments and other great features for our users everywhere,” Matthew Idema, WhatsApp’s Chief Operating Officer, was quoted as saying.