WhatsApp, the incredibly popular messaging app, has been approved by regulators in Brazil to allow business payments to be completed through its platform. This is an incredible step forward for the company, which up until now has only been allowed to process peer-to-peer payments within Brazil. But this approval also has the potential to open…

Brazil’s central bank has given the green light to WhatsApp’s plans to start offering digital payments services to merchants in the Latin American country, paving the way for the messaging app giant to join forces with global payments companies PayPal, Visa, and Mastercard and begin making real-time digital payments. The service, which is expected to…