The latest data by Similarweb, shows that Viber is the number one messenger in Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro, Ukraine, and Belarus. As of September 2018, the app had over 1B users worldwide and claims it has surpassed WhatsApp in Russia. However, Viber that cost the Japanese giant Rakuten $900M back in 2014 and is doing a great job penetrating Central and Eastern Europe. Viber is one of the most popular instant messaging apps in the world, available for all major mobile devices and operating systems. China has its WeChat, Russia and Latin America are dominated by WhatsApp. The Western part of Europe and the US have Messenger and WhatsApp. Launching the new service, Viber makes another step towards dominating the messenger market in CEE. The transaction takes place between the cards of two private parties which means that Moneytou is not a “wallet” application, it does not have a balance users do not need to deposit or withdraw money with or through the app, reads a description of the new service. To launch the app feature, consumers will need to tap a separate Moneytou icon within the Viber app. The transferred amount will appear in the recipient’s balance and is immediately available to be spend by card or withdrawn in cash.Ĭustomers will be able to register multiple cards in the Viber app and select the card to use for each transaction. Multiple cards, but not a walletĬustomers will be able to benefit from the speed of money transfers, with funds being transferred within a matter of minutes, including evening hours and weekends. Indeed, Moneytou is a product of the collaboration of several partners – Mastercard, Rakuten Viber, Wirecard, and NeoPay.
We’ve been hearing rumors about the peer-to-peer money transfer service of Viber for over a year now, but given the highly regulated space, it took some time for this to come to life. If some one is calling I get the ringtone. “Our company’s goal in the first phase of expansion is to also appear in more than 25 million Rakuten Viber users’ apps in Ukraine, Romania, Serbia and Bulgaria,” said Gergely Benda, NeoPay’s founder-executive in an official statement. Hello Its been a month that suddenly my phone stopped showing call notification for messenger,viber and whatsapp. The new service, called Moneytou, has been developed in Hungary, by a company NeoPay and as part of the Mastercard digital payments ecosystem, and will allow users to send and receive money immediately through the app. Starting from Hungary and gradually adding other Eastern European markets in the next months, Viber will be rolling out money transfer service within its messaging app.
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