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Viewpoint: Women’s Financial Inclusion Needs a Bigger Fix Than Digital IDs
Until governments and banks tackle issues such as corruption, low informal sector wages and female illiteracy, digital ID systems like Aadhaar will do little to improve the financial inclusion of poor women in India, says economist Debdatta Saha.
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- Finance, Technology
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- South Asia
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India Posts’ payments bank to begin operations from April
India Posts Payments Bank (IPPB) is all set to roll out operations on a pan-India level from April this year, which will also include digital transactions.
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- Finance
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- South Asia
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- digital payments, fintech
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What’s Driving India’s Fintech Boom?
An explosion of smartphone users and a world-class digital infrastructure are fueling the rapid growth of fintech in India. But innovating for low-income groups remains a challenge.
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- Finance
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WhatsApp Payments testing for Android, iOS in India could worry Paytm, other e-wallets
WhatsApp has been working on a digital transaction feature since 2017, and the same was spotted at times in the wild. The appearances in the past have been on earlier beta version of the popular messaging application.
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- Finance
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- South Asia
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- digital payments, fintech
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Tata Trusts launches energy innovation challenge
Tata Trusts’s Social Alpha Energy Challenge aims to discover next-gen technology innovations that promise to unlock new solutions to India’s energy challenges.
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- Energy
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- South Asia
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What Blocks The Success Runway For Fintech Startups In India?
Despite adequate funding and an unprecedented growth of 135% in just two years, most fintech startups are grappling with inefficiencies in multiple operations. However, with India slowly but surely making the transition towards a cashless economy, access to internet services, and increasing transparency in transactions, the outlook for the future is most certainly robust.
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- Finance
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- fintech, regulations, startups
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Prince Charles launches education impact bond for India
Britain's Prince Charles has launched a new 10-million-dollar Development Impact Bond (DIB) to help improve education for over 200,000 children in India.
The DIB, the largest bond of its type in South Asia, is the latest fundraising initiative by the British Asian Trust (BAT), set up by the royal 10 years ago to fight poverty in South Asia.- Categories
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Global green bonds set to hit record levels; India to lead emerging markets
“Developed market banks and corporates will remain active issuers, with emerging market issuers, sovereigns and municipals, and green secularisations providing important engines of growth,” it added. Further, the report observed that China and India “will be the leaders among emerging markets”.
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