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Why the digital payments space is abuzz with WhatsApp's entry

Facebook owned WhatsApp's announcement to enter the digital payments space in India has created a flutter. Several top executives, including Paytm's founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma, took to Twitter to express concerns about the messaging platform's foray into this space. Their apprehensions, though, are not unfounded.

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