(Photo : Pexels/Anton) WhatsApp Pay Brazil After one year, WhatsApp payments are available in Brazil again. The Facebook-owned chat platform has relaunched the feature in the country. Brazil served as the launching pad for WhatsApp's mobile payments, then it rolled out in India a few months later, but its central bank forced the service to suspend its payment feature just a few months after its launch. WhatsApp Payments Back in Brazil The banking authority only gave WhatsApp the approval to facilitate Visa or Mastercard-backed peer-to-peer payments this March after looking into whether it meets all of the rules regarding competition, efficiency, and data privacy.