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

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

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

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

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

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