The Growth Factor: MSMEs, climate change, and climate financing; how digital tech can break the informal economy trap; investments into fintech

• Read Time : 5 mins

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• fintech
• MSME
• informal economy
• climate financing
• Nandan Nilekani

How cheap bandwidth and smartphones together with micropayents will affect tectonic shifts in telecom, TV and Bollywood, retail, banking and more

• Read Time : 12 mins
• 3 Comments

• Tags
• gaming
• user-generated regional content
• Jio
• banking
• food tech
• eCommerce
• Privacy
• India Stack
• video streaming
• Aadhaar
• Vodafone
• Flipkart
• fintech
• Walmart
• DTH
• blended commerce
• Amazon
• data protection
• Digital disruption
• Chinese smartphones
• Netflix
• Airtel
• Amazon Prime

This Week: How politicians think, resurgence of liberal arts in a tech-driven world, tech disruptions in banking and more

• Read Time : 3 mins

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• Half Lion
• liberal arts
• politics
• cashless society
• Aswath Damodaran
• Linda Hill
• Collective Genius
• PV Narasimha Rao
• innovation
• Scott Hartley
• Jane McConnell
• Fintech

This Week: UPI and fintech—a historical perspective, business storytelling, monetizing innovation, essentialism and more

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• Fintech
• Artificial Intelligence
• innovation
• Indian banking
• essentialism
• unified payments interface
• Product design

The dawn of IT in Indian banking from the 1950s to the 1980s teaches important lessons that are valid in today’s context

• Read Time : 10 mins
• 1 Comment

• Tags
• fintech
• artificial intelligence
• Indian banking
• digital transactions
• digital banking
• chatbots
• robotic process automation
• WhatsApp

Traditional banks have embraced UPI and have the added advantage of an existing customer base. So, why are they worried about startups? In one word, unbundling.

• Read Time : 4 mins

• Tags
• Fintech
• Mobikwik
• unified payments interface
• FreeCharge
• Paytm
• Disruption
• Banking
• #AadhaarEffect
• ICICI Bank
• State Bank of India
• PhonePe