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

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

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

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

• Read Time : 3 mins

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

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

• Read Time : 3 mins

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

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
• chatbots
• digital transactions
• robotic process automation
• artificial intelligence
• digital banking
• Indian banking
• fintech
• 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
• FreeCharge
• Fintech
• Disruption
• Mobikwik
• ICICI Bank
• State Bank of India
• unified payments interface
• PhonePe
• Banking
• Paytm
• #AadhaarEffect