Facebook Messenger Now Lets You Send Money With Transferwise
- Popular U.K.-based service launches Facebook Messenger bot
- Joins other payment companies seeing future in messaging apps
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International money transfer service TransferWise Ltd. has announced an integration with Facebook Inc.’s Messenger that will let people set up foreign exchange transactions over the chat service.
London-based TransferWise launched the technology as a bot -- a piece of automation software that understands natural language -- baked within Messenger. The bot, which is free to use and doesn’t affect prices or rates offered, will talk users through the process of arranging an international money transfer with TransferWise.