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
• informal economy
• Nandan Nilekani
• MSME
• climate financing

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

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

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

• Read Time : 3 mins

• Tags
• Fintech
• essentialism
• innovation
• Product design
• unified payments interface
• Indian banking
• 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
• fintech
• digital banking
• chatbots
• robotic process automation
• Indian banking
• digital transactions
• WhatsApp
• 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
• Fintech
• Paytm
• #AadhaarEffect
• PhonePe
• Mobikwik
• Disruption
• unified payments interface
• ICICI Bank
• Banking
• FreeCharge
• State Bank of India