[hammyhavoc]

Why would anybody want this versus existing alternatives? OK, the USP of sending money to your Facebook friends... well, if they're my friends, we've been sending money to each other for years when splitting bills etc. It's a solved problem.

[aembleton]

I don't know. I went to the theatre last week with some friends. One of them bought the tickets and I didn't have her bank details. We organised everything over messenger.

With this Facebook Pay, I could probably just have paid her from within messenger. Instead I had to open my bank app and have it generate a link, copy that and paste it into messenger. The end result is the same; and with the link it would go straight into her account, but its just a bit more clumsy - using two apps, when with Facebook Pay one will do.

[hammyhavoc]

We've got PAYM in the UK, it works with just a mobile number: https://paym.co.uk/

Figured this kind of thing would be common globally considering how far behind the technological curve the UK tends to be.