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Google Tez Expected to be Renamed as Google Pay
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Google Tez Expected to be Renamed as Google Pay

The digital payments space is growing at a great pace these days and Google Tez has been a predominant player along with many other companies. Google is now planning to rename Tez to Pay and integrate it under the global payment umbrella of Google Pay. Being Google’s payments app, Tez gained a lot of attraction and also has hit various targets in less time as compared to others. The app has crossed more than 50 million downloads. This move is expected to open the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) as a mode of payment for app purchases on Google Play Store. And as stated by the experts, it is a huge use case waiting to be tapped. "We have always maintained that we will bring payments across different platforms," Google spokesperson said. It has also been mentioned that till now Tez h...
RBI to Introduce Mobile Wallet Interoperability Soon
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RBI to Introduce Mobile Wallet Interoperability Soon

While the mobile wallet industry is emerging at an impressive pace in India, it now is looking actively for the Reserve Bank of India to release interoperability guidelines for the industry. Notably, RBI's master directions on Mandatory KYC compliance (Issuance and Operation of Pre-paid Payment Instruments) that came in October 2017 had proposed digital wallets to become interoperable within six months. However, the following discussions with stakeholders had postponed the decision. If sources are to be belived RBI is now determined to bring wallet interoperability rules in a month with a delay of two months after the deadline A report quoting bankers published by ET said, The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has already cleared the safety security aspects of taking wal...