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

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

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

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

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

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• Artificial Intelligence
• essentialism
• Fintech
• unified payments interface
• Indian banking
• innovation
• 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
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• WhatsApp
• chatbots
• artificial intelligence
• fintech
• digital banking
• robotic process automation
• Indian banking
• digital transactions

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.

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