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    Facebook is the world's most evil company: Paytm founder

    Facebook is the world's most evil company: Paytm founder
    Written by Bhavika Bhuwalka
    Feb 16, 2018, 12:18 pm 2 min read
    Facebook is the world's most evil company: Paytm founder

    Vijay Shekhar Sharma, founder and CEO of India's biggest mobile wallet firm Paytm, has called Facebook "the most evil company in the world." His upset remarks come in the light of Facebook-owned WhatsApp testing its new payment feature in India. He claims that WhatsApp Pay is insecure since it does not need a password or three-step authentication to make online and mobile payments.

    Will WhatsApp Pay unfairly leverage India's UPI payment system?

    Sharma also accused WhatsApp Pay, which is based on NPCI's real-time payment system UPI, of bringing on an unfair playing field for companies like Paytm. "Facebook is openly colonizing our payment system and is customizing UPI to their benefit. UPI was built as an India Stack, now some American monopoly arm-twists UPI for customer implementation," he said.

    WhatsApp is killing the open UPI system: Vijay Shekhar Sharma

    After failing to win war against India’s open internet with cheap tricks of free basics, Facebook is again in play.
    Killing beautiful open UPI system with its custom close garden implementation.
    I am surprised, champions of open @India_Stack , let it happen ! https://t.co/wIsNuF1AiB

    — Vijay Shekhar (@vijayshekhar) February 14, 2018

    Some Industry veterans disagree with Sharma

    Following Sharma's backlash, some industry veterans said that he is being against the very idea of Digital India. "There is clear record of private companies who got access first and exclusively when UPI was launched. Those complaining about WhatsApp are the same folks who refuse to entertain neutral payment options (like MobiKwik) on their websites/apps," Bipin Preet Singh, founder of digital wallet MobiKwik, said.

    Paytm just being paranoid of competition?

    All companies threatened by Whatsapp payments are going to tag it as anti national and try to pull it down as it’s hard to win on merit against network effects of Whatsapp.

    This strategy worked for Patanjali and wonder if it will work for payment companies.

    — Kunal Shah (@kunalb11) February 14, 2018

    WhatsApp Pay will clear the air once it goes live

    WhatsApp Pay, which will let users send and receive money through the app, is still being beta-tested. According to media reports, the final product, to release by March, will adhere to all the guidelines of the National Payments Corporation of India. It should be noted that Sharma's remarks have already led to Neeraj Arora, VP of Business Development for WhatsApp, resigning from Paytm's board.

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