Facebook might be rolling out payment via its Messenger app
Facebook may soon be rolling out payments via its Messenger service, according to Stanford student developer Anthony Aude. He stumbled across the as-yet unreleased feature, which appears to accept debit card payments and one-to-one transactions. There were no details of charges, leading to an assumption the service would initially be free. Industry insiders have been expecting the move, following Facebook's hiring of former PayPal president David Marcus in June.

This post was originally published on Mashable.

Not content to manage the news updates and friend connections of its over one billion users, the long arm of Facebook is now reportedly preparing to enter the world of mobile payments.

Facebook's Messenger app, which may soon enable peer-to-peer mobile payments.

According to a report from Techcrunch, Andrew Aude, a student developer at Stanford, discovered the as yet unreleased feature of Facebook Messenger by using the iOS and Mac OS X hacking tool Cycript.

Posting the find on Twitter on Saturday, including screenshots, Aude claims the dynamic would allow Facebook Messenger users to pay in the same way users of Square's Cash app allows users to send money with their debit card via their mobile phone.