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Google Pay Adds Gmail Importing for Automatically Adding Tickets, Loyalty Cards From Your Inbox

April 17 2019

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“In what appears to be a server-side update, Google is rolling out a new setting for Pay users. In Google Pay for Android, this setting enables users to have relevant data from Gmail automatically show up in the Google Pay app such as loyalty cards, movie tickets, airline boarding passes, and more.”

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Google Pay Starts Offering ‘Digital Gold’, Mutual Funds Coming Soon

April 2 2019

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“On Wednesday, Google Pay partnered with point-of-sale companies Pine Labs and Innoviti Payment Solutions Pvt. Ltd to strengthen its offline presence. Through this, Google Pay aims to establish a network of 200,000 stores across 3,500 towns and cities in India over the next few months. The rollout will begin with grocery chains Reliance Fresh and […]

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Google gets go-ahead from Central Bank for payments

January 7 2019

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“Google has been authorised as a payment institution in the Republic, paving the way for the technology giant to begin providing new financial services to consumers and businesses both here and further afield.”

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Google granted an electronic money institution licence in Lithuania  

January 3 2019

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“The Board of the Bank of Lithuania has granted Google Payment Lithuania UAB an electronic money institution licence authorising to issue and redeem electronic money as well as provide payment services.”

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Google’s New Plan to Push Google Pay in India: Cashback Incentives in Android Apps

May 16 2019

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“Google is gunning for India’s payment companies. The U.S. search giant entered India’s payment space in 2017 , and now it is hatching an initiative that could boost usage of its Google Pay service by tying it tightly to Android apps in the country. The company has built an in-app engagement rewards platform that promises […]

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Businesses Can Now Accept PayPal Through Google Pay in 24 Countries

June 21 2019

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“To this end, Google notes that Google Pay users can automatically choose their PayPal account at checkout so long as the merchant has added PayPal to their Google Pay integration. For buyers, this confers the benefits of fewer steps and PayPal’s Purchase Protection and Return Shipping coverage. As for merchants, they’ll continue to get PayPal […]

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Google Pay Reports 67m Users in India

September 24 2019

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““In the last 12 months alone, we’ve grown more than three times to 67 million monthly active users, driving transactions worth over US$110bn on an annualised basis, with hundreds of thousands of offline and online merchants,” Caesar Sengupta, vice president of Google’s next billion users initiative, has revealed . Sengupta announced the numbers alongside the […]

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Cash May Be King in India, but Google Is Prince of Mobile Payments

September 19 2019

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“In India today, the company has one of its fastest-growing hits ever with Google Pay, a two-year-old app that millions of consumers are using to spend and transfer tens of billions of dollars. Resembling a chat app and available in local languages, Google Pay was the most downloaded financial technology app world-wide last year, according […]

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Google Pay Gets More Deeply Integrated With Chrome

July 8 2019

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“Now, the company says you’ll be able to access autofill for payments just by signing into your Google Account while on the desktop — even if Chrome sync is disabled. The feature takes advantage of Google Pay, which has been recently expanding to more sites across the web, following last year’s rebranding from “Android Pay” […]

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Google Shuts Out Payday Loans With App-Store Ban

October 14 2019

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“Google has barred high-interest consumer loan services from its app store, limiting payday lenders’ access to customers. The technology giant recently prohibited apps from offering personal loans with an annual percentage rate of 36% or higher on its Google Play app store. The move inserted the tech giant into a fight over payday loans, which […]