The digital payments battle is heating up in India and the latest to join the fray is WhatsApp, the global instant messaging behemoth. Understandably, the entry of such a big player in a field like digital payments is going to ruffle some feathers. Vijay Shekhar Sharma, the founder of Paytm, an India based payments platform, had recently raised concerns about WhatsApp Payments violating UPI norms.
Paytm versus WhatsApp Payments