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India is adopting digital payments like never before, but cash too seems here to stay
Feb 16, 2017

India is adopting digital payments like never before, but cash too seems here to stay

While digitalisation has proceeded, cash has not become unimportant.

Privacy and security risks of digital payments
May 09, 2017

Privacy and security risks of digital payments

Digital financial services have benefits but pose privacy risks that harm consumers, merchants, markets, and nations alike. Some payments systems in India suffer from vulnerabilities because they were not prospectively designed on the basis of the ‘privacy by design’ principle. At the back-end, the centralised storage of data is risky. At the front-end, faulty capture devices enable data misuse. Across the middle mile, data is transmitted wit

Bits and Bytes: Reaching money to the bottom of the pyramid
Sep 29, 2017

Bits and Bytes: Reaching money to the bottom of the pyramid

Despite numerous government efforts to popularise digital transactions, India continues to be a cash-dependent economy. This is because the transforma

CBDC: Global silos retard efficiency
Oct 17, 2022

CBDC: Global silos retard efficiency

Central Bank Digital Currencies need a unified global approach given the fracturing of geopolitics into contesting silos

Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) and its economic implications
Jan 19, 2021

Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) and its economic implications

To defend their turf — and prevent extreme decoupling — central banks are keen on designing their own network of digital payments by officially is

Central Bank Digital Currency in India: Deeper engagement and thorough exploration needed before execution
May 21, 2020

Central Bank Digital Currency in India: Deeper engagement and thorough exploration needed before execution

Maximising the effectiveness of fulfilling the essential functions of fiat money should be the primary objective of CBDC.

Decoding the digital euro: What lies ahead?
Oct 05, 2023

Decoding the digital euro: What lies ahead?

The digital euro can revolutionise digital payments but its future remains uncertain as it grapples with widespread political scepticism about its pur

Demonetisation 2.0 or routine currency management?
Jun 13, 2023

Demonetisation 2.0 or routine currency management?

The crucial difference between the withdrawal of INR 2000 notes and the 2016 demonetisation is the modus operandi of the withdrawal and the status as

Digital rights in 2021: Perspectives from Kenya
Jan 08, 2021

Digital rights in 2021: Perspectives from Kenya

In the coming years, many will be watching to see whether mobile network operators will manage to retain the 2.8 million new mobile money subscribers

Economic Survey 2021-22: New data through new tools for new policymaking
Jan 31, 2022

Economic Survey 2021-22: New data through new tools for new policymaking

This year’s survey encompasses the massive changes that the country has had to go through over the decades in the long term as well as through the p

Estonian Case – डिजिटल पब्लिक इंफ़्रास्ट्रक्चर का विकास और प्रसार
Jul 18, 2023

Estonian Case – डिजिटल पब्लिक इंफ़्रास्ट्रक्चर का विकास और प्रसार

एस्टोनियाई अनुभव ने हमें बताया है कि डीपीआई (Digital Public Infrastructure) �

Golden rules for regulating Digital Public Goods
Mar 03, 2023

Golden rules for regulating Digital Public Goods

We must have checks and balances on our technologists and on those who govern technology, especially in the case of DPGs because of their increasingly

India’s UPI Market: Projections for Growth Under Various GDP Scenarios
Sep 08, 2023

India’s UPI Market: Projections for Growth Under Various GDP Scenarios

This paper projects the nationwide and state-wise size of India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) market under various GDP growth scenarios. The market sizes under these scenarios are expressed in monetary values at the scale of both sub-national units and the Indian economy as a whole. With the help of transactions and market share data from Phonepe, a UPI company, the paper estimates the national and state-wise base case scenario market volu

Modi has just bet he can change India's social behaviour
Dec 01, 2016

Modi has just bet he can change India's social behaviour

PM Modi's push to industries - trucking, agricultural purchases, construction - where wages are still distributed in cash towards digital payments

Most–read expertspeak, 2017
Dec 28, 2017

Most–read expertspeak, 2017

Fifteen most–read expertspeak posts this year.

Multistakeholder conversations on #encryption — Where India is at
Mar 21, 2017

Multistakeholder conversations on #encryption — Where India is at

The government has acknowledged the importance of protecting the integrity of data and the requirement of strong encryption standards.

New trends in digital transactions
Mar 06, 2017

New trends in digital transactions

It's possible to calculate the extent to which the level of digital transactions relates to the underlying trends.

Public digital platforms – the value co-creation imperative
Dec 16, 2022

Public digital platforms – the value co-creation imperative

Beyond trust in digital platforms, a key factor affecting adoption of platforms is that of “value co-creation”

Rejuvenating Nepal-India bilateral relations through digital connectivity
Apr 26, 2024

Rejuvenating Nepal-India bilateral relations through digital connectivity

Attempts are being made by Nepal and India to revive the relationship through new avenues of cooperation with a focus on digital connectivity

Some lessons for a less-cash economy
Nov 28, 2016

Some lessons for a less-cash economy

Less-cash economy formalising shared economy, with an impetus to digital payments, is one of the motivations as well as goals of demonetisation

The Digital Rupee: The next step in India’s digital transformation
Oct 31, 2022

The Digital Rupee: The next step in India’s digital transformation

As countries around the world explore design and implementation strategies for CBDCs, India can play a pivotal role in setting a global benchmark

The Fintech Landscape in India and Africa: A Primer
Aug 16, 2023

The Fintech Landscape in India and Africa: A Primer

The adoption of digital payments has risen exponentially over the past decade in many countries including India and those in the African continent. In India, the growth has run parallel to rapid mobile penetration, aided by initiatives like Aadhaar, the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), and IndiaStack, as well as the unintended push factor created by demonetisation in November 2016. This brief discusses the landscape of fintech—‘finan

The weaponisation of cashbacks on UPI by Google Pay
Oct 28, 2019

The weaponisation of cashbacks on UPI by Google Pay

Digital payments are no longer about ensuring that money reaches the intended person or entity. Instead, the data exhaust of the transaction has becom

This is the time to face up to cyber threats
Oct 02, 2017

This is the time to face up to cyber threats

The ICT supply chain in India is only as strong as its weakest link: the end user. If the user is from rural India, with a limited understanding of the devices and transactions she accesses, her device is a point of vulnerability.

Time to face up to cyber threats
Jan 02, 2017

Time to face up to cyber threats

Cyber insecurity is now a global risk no different from the warming climate or forced displacement. Is such insecurity a business risk or a "public bad"?

Utilising blockchain for cross-border payments: Implications for India
Aug 20, 2023

Utilising blockchain for cross-border payments: Implications for India

Cross-border payment is one part of the banking sector that has yet to benefit from recent progress in digitalisation. Most international transactions are still processed using a 600-year-old correspondent banking system devised by the Medici.[1] However, this system of manual entry of transactions is not a scalable solution for the burgeoning digital payments space. While this may seem like an issue for institutions, a huge segment of the popul

डिजिटल रुपया: भारत की डिजिटल यात्रा का अगला पड़ाव
Jul 19, 2023

डिजिटल रुपया: भारत की डिजिटल यात्रा का अगला पड़ाव

दुनिया के तमाम देश CBDCs की संरचना और क्रियान्वयन से जुड़ी र�

भारत - नेपाळ संबंध दृढ करण्यासाठी डिजिटल कनेक्टिव्हिटीची गरज
May 10, 2024

भारत - नेपाळ संबंध दृढ करण्यासाठी डिजिटल कनेक्टिव्हिटीची गरज

भारत आणि नेपाळ यांच्यातील संबंध पुनरुज्जीवित करण्यासाठ

भारत-अमेरिकेतला ‘डेटा’तणाव!
Jul 30, 2019

भारत-अमेरिकेतला ‘डेटा’तणाव!

माहितीची सुरक्षा, म्हणजे डेटा सिक्युरीटी हा भारत-अमेरिकेतील व्यापारासंदर्भात असलेल्या वादांमधला कमकुवत दुवा आहे. 

सुरुवात डिजिटल कर्जाच्या दशकाची
Dec 28, 2020

सुरुवात डिजिटल कर्जाच्या दशकाची

कोविडमुळे लोक मोठ्या प्रमाणावर डिजिटल पेमेंटकडे वळले. २०३०पर्यंत भारतात ८५६.६ अब्ज डॉलरची उलाढाल डिजिटल पेमेंटने होईल, असा अंदाज आहे.