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Around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected people's comfort levels with digital technology. The 'new normal' of payment reached 70 billion transactions in 2022, which was 44 billion in 2021.
This has created opportunities for new entrepreneurs and small businesses. And finding the right method of the payment transaction…
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NRIs (Non-resident Indians) will now be able to use UPI for processing payments. NPCI (National Payments Corporation of India) says that NRIs living in ten countries can now set up UPI on their international mobile numbers.
According to the new guidelines, they will now be able to use international mobile numbers for…
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The Unified payment interface or UPI transactions, as we know, the elevated convenience served by UPI systems is one biggest reason it's exceeding other payment methods.
Proof: A report by CLSA verified that UPI corporates to 60% of entire payments — and digital payments have increased from $61bn in 2016 to…
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India’s economic growth has been exceptional in the past few years. It can be easily attributed to the microfinance companies in India whose immense contribution fueled this rapid growth.
Microfinance companies have been instrumental in attenuating poverty by uplifting the poor, particularly women and the youth, in rural areas. The microfinance sector…
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The contemporary lending environment is going through a paradigm shift. It is way better than the traditional lending process finance and loan companies used to follow. All thanks to rapid digitalization that has eliminated inconveniences that bothered both lenders and borrowers in equal measures.
Conventional ways of lending required the borrowers to…
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Micro-financing has played a key role in the rapid economic growth of India. Its contribution has been immense. Private finance companies have made financial assistance within reach of rural youth and women. Private lending has changed the economic ecosystem of the nation for the better. There are hundreds of NBFC establishments in…
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As we know, NBFCs are performing an imensive job by providing credit facilities to specific niche sectors, viz., infrastructure and unbanked sections of the economy — thus, driving financial inclusion in India.
And the sector has reported a total annual growth of almost 18% over the previous few years and is…
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The Demonization and rise in digital payments paved the way for digital banking units (DBUs) in India, and the RBI’s Digital Payments Index (DPI) has increased to 349.30 in March 2022 from 153.47 in March 2019.
Many banks are now prioritizing incorporating DBUs in their overall banking system because it helps…
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Why do we need NBFC when we have Banks?
Let's take a quick example - Why do we need Jio, Airtel, Idea, and others when we have BSNL? The same goes here. Every bank in India provides specific bundles of financial services, while their primary activity is lending. For example, an…
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Have you heard of this quote, "If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business"? A very famous one by Lee Kuan Yew, 1st Prime Minister of the global financial center, Singapore.
In this digital era, when every other job has become virtual and…
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The Indian FinTech ecosystem demonstrates uniqueness. Its growth is propelled and determined by numerous factors and the involvement of a myriad of stakeholders, including founders, startups, a vast customer base, institutions, and government & regulatory bodies, to name a few.
Fintech is flourishing like never before in India. That's attributable to an…
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The financial sector is quite difficult to get a grasp on. Owing to a myriad of sectors that have different norms, it becomes a bit cumbersome to make the right decisions. The laws for banks and NFBCs are quite different. If you have also wondered what non-banking financial institutions are and how…