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Sitharaman meets Mexican minister, discusses ways to deepen economic tiesFinance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman met Mexican counterpart Rogelio Ramirez de la O to strengthen India-Mexico economic ties. Discussions i...
Build for Bharat podcast: Understanding what it will take to boost digital financial inclusion in IndiaFinancial inclusion to help entrepreneurs focus on financial inclusion, livelihood, skilling, and health.
FM Nirmala Sitharaman assures investors of addressing pain points to encourage investmentsAddressing a roundtable on 'Investing in India's Digital Revolution' in San Francisco, the minister encouraged constant engagement with inv...
FM Sitharaman meets heads of FedEx, Mastercard, others during US visitThe finance minister is in the US to attend IMF-WB Spring Meetings 2022.
FM Sitharaman meets heads of FedEx, Mastercard, others during US visitFedEx President and CEO-elect Raj Subramanian, during the meeting with the Finance Minister, mentioned that he is positive about India and ...
Banks issue 31.67 crore RuPay debit cards to PMJDY account holders"Progressing ahead with a mission to provide universal access to banking facilities for every adult citizen, 31.67 crore #RuPay debit cards...
Gati Shakti, digitisation, 'Make in India' discussed as Sitharaman meets top CEOs in New YorkOn October 13, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Rs 100-lakh crore national master plan for multi-modal connectivity that aims to d...
Jan Dhan accounts cross 41 crore: Finance Ministry"Govt. committed to #FinancialInclusion to all citizens. As on 6/1/21, #PMJDY accounts cross 41 Cr. and Zero Balance Accounts decline to 7....
Internet users in India to rise by 40%, smartphones to double by 2023: McKinseyAs per McKinsey, India is one of the largest and fastest-growing markets for digital consumers, with 560 million internet subscribers in 20...
Budget 2019: What internet companies, startups and investors feelConsumer internet companies, startups and investors feel disappointed by budget’s silence over issues like angel investor tax.
Why government's push to make Aadhaar mandatory could erode public faith in Aadhaar-enabled paymentsAadhaar — unlike Google or any other digital service —is compulsory in India, when the country doesn’t even have a data protection and priv...
'Smart' cards: Jagjit Singh, Uddhav Thackeray labourers in MPA card having Jagjit Singh's picture has been given out in the name of Rahul Dube, another resident of Kaitha Gangeo.
Budget 2013: Proposal to give Rs 10,000 to each youth for skill training may make 150 million youths job-readyBesides incentivising the youth to partake job training the proposal is likely to increase the comfort level for industry to hire more such...
India's new growth paradigm: Faster growth with bigger deficit and higher inflationThe Economic Survey expects growth to accelerate to 7.6% in 2012-13 and 8.6% in 2013-14. Many analysts and investors are sceptical. Which v...
Special feature: Banking to the poor mostly on paperThis differential of 65 million shows that the three-year drive by the RBI and states to provide banking to the poor is mostly on paper. ET...
UIDAI wants users to access bank accounts through BC terminals; banking correspondents resent ATM-like model for bizSince transactions are not updated real-time between an agent of a BC and its server, villagers can bank only with that BC's agent in the v...
- The banking-correspondent model has its weaknesses
An identity is just the first link in the cash-transfer chain. Everyone also need bank accounts that are easily accessed.
- We want savings to be part of financial-inclusion agenda: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Bob Christen , director of the Financial Services for the Poor initiative at The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , told ET over telephone f...
- RBI is looking at extending mobile-banking services to the alerge population
Mobile-based payment systems will see the light of the day this year, with the central bank stressing on its importance. T