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Meta gets the green light to turn on WhatsApp Pay for all of India.

The Indian government has lifted its cap that previously restricted the Venmo-like feature in WhatsApp to 100 million users.

As TechCrunch notes, Google and Walmart currently operate the vast majority of the digital payments market in the country. But that could be about to change; India is WhatsApp’s largest market with over 500 million users, and the messaging app is already heavily relied on there by small businesses.

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