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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• 3 Comments

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

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

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

• Read Time : 3 mins

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

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