The addition of a seamless payment solution with an in-app wallet provided by licensed financial partners, along with other soon-to–be-introduced features, is a natural evolution that newly positions Rakuten Viber as a standalone super app. Rapyd will embed its licensed payment processing services directly into the Viber app to power the in-app payments capabilities. To provide licensed payment services in the first two markets, Viber has partnered with Rapyd, a global FinTech-as-a-Service company. “Viber’s world-class security and privacy protection, joined with the high standards of premium payment service partners, like Rapyd, creates a simple and secure app-based alternative for conducting personal and business transactions.”Īdding funds to the digital wallet will be possible via all Mastercard and Visa cards and local banks upon its launch in Germany and Greece. User-friendly payment features will allow users to effortlessly connect, engage, and transact inside and across borders without ever leaving their preferred messaging platform,” says Ofir Eyal, CEO of Rakuten Viber. “Rakuten Viber is already one of the world’s top messengers, and with FinTech capabilities, Viber will extend its utility and value to make it an absolutely essential app for its hundreds of millions of users.

Viber is installed on 91% of smartphones in Greece and was named by Germany’s Stiftung Warentest as one of the most secure messaging apps. Payments on Viber will go live initially in Greece and Germany and then roll out to more countries in the near future. Rakuten Viber enters the global digital payments market with a worldwide user base of hundreds of millions of consumers and a strong reputation for security rooted in its on-by-default end-to-end encryption for private communications.

It will later expand to include multiple currencies, along with other services available soon. This new function will allow Viber users to send money to each other easily and set up a digital wallet to store money, starting with Euros. Rakuten Viber is expanding into digital payments with a mobile wallet available through the Viber app.

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