First reported by Android Police, Google's slowly updating its Contacts app with a new shortcut for
quickly sending money to friends and family.
There are an endless number of situations you might find yourself in, where you need to
quickly send money to a friend, or maybe even receive money from said friend.
Not exact matches
The need for
quickly and safely
sending money to family and
friends, as well as the ability
to easily pay for goods and services has driven the demand for mobile - payment solutions in the region.
Venmo allows you
to send and receive
money with
friends quickly and without charging you a fee, making it easy
to split dinner,
send a birthday gift, pay your roommate for bills, or pay
friends back for buying you drinks.
Different form of peer
to peer payments, like Venmo or Square Cash, have
quickly become a popular method
to send money to friends.
Coming this fall with an update
to iOS 11 and watchOS 4, Apple Pay users will be able
to send and receive
money from
friends and family
quickly, easily and securely.
Friends can then decide whether
to click and
quickly send money from a debit card number you enter or have previously connected
to Messenger.
Millenials are also increasingly likely
to use the increased ability
to quickly and securely make payments on their phone, Visa says: over a third (34 %) made a peer -
to - peer (P2P) digital payment via a mobile device and three fifths (59 %) have
sent mobile
money to family or a
friend.