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BENGALURU: Consumers would be able to buy sachet-sized health insurance on WhatsApp by the end of the year, said Abhijit Bose, India head for WhatsApp. On top of enabling payments, the Facebook-owned platform is running pilots to enable selling micro-insurance, pension with financial services companies who will use its application programming interface (API) to reach consumers. This is the first time the local arm of the Menlo Park-based company has given a timeline for launching these products in India.
To start this, WhatsApp has partnered with SBI General Insurance for health insurance while it is working with HDFC Pensions and pinBox Solutions to offer post-retirement pension products. Bose, who was speaking at the company’s India event, said WhatsApp plans to run similar pilots in ed-tech and agri-tech as well to reach its vast base of users in India 400 million.
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