News you want to use week 26

Brazil will be the first market where users can send and receive money by way of its messaging app, using Facebook Pay, the payments service WhatsApp owner Facebook  launched last year. WhatsApp says in its blog post that the payments service — which currently is free for consumers to use (that is, no commission fee taken) but businesses pay a 3.99% processing fee to receive payments — will work by way of a six-digit PIN or fingerprint to complete transactions.

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