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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• MSME
• fintech
• 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
• Flipkart
• India Stack
• Digital disruption
• eCommerce
• food tech
• Amazon
• gaming
• video streaming
• Netflix
• fintech
• user-generated regional content
• data protection
• Walmart
• Jio
• blended commerce
• Chinese smartphones
• Amazon Prime
• Privacy
• DTH
• Vodafone
• Aadhaar
• Airtel
• 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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• PV Narasimha Rao
• Aswath Damodaran
• Scott Hartley
• innovation
• Jane McConnell
• Fintech
• Collective Genius
• liberal arts
• politics
• cashless society
• Linda Hill
• Half Lion

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

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

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

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