Category: technology

  • What will India’s new Data Protection Act bring to the world of FinTech? I spent some time researching, talking to experts, and speculating with a crystal ball. Read on for my take. DPDP: The big reset India is known for leapfrogs. Whether it is our leapfrog from landlines to 5G or our recent leapfrog from…

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  • Indian lenders have a fetishization problem. Graphic imagery, I admit. But it’s a diagnosis that fits with the unhealthy obsession banks and NBFCs seem to have with building shiny new digital lending apps. For decades, they’ve operated with a quiet, unquestioned belief: if we build a beautiful app, consumers will wake up every day and…

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  • What’s the difference between a delivery in 30 minutes and one in less than 10 minutes? Not much. Even as Zomato claimed recently that it’ll launch a 10-minute food delivery, the internet wasn’t convinced. The company fielded mass outrage online, with people questioning the ethics, practice and security of the delivery fleet and the restaurant…

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