WhatsApp Pay commercial India launch tipped for May-end with HDFC, ICICI and Axis Bank support in tow

WhatsApp Pay: While the WhatsApp Pay feature has been running on beta version in India for over two years now, the payment portal has not been officially launched in the country due to some problems. However, now, a report in Money Control has stated that the payment method would be officially made live in India by the end of May.

The report, quoting two bankers in the know of the developments, said that while the WhatsApp Pay feature would be supported by HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank and Axis Bank, India’s biggest bank State Bank of India would not support the method in the first phase. According to the report, all the four banks had been in the process of integrating with the instant messaging platform while it had started the beta testing of the feature with the support of ICICI Bank.