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

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

• Read Time : 3 mins

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

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

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