financial inclusion

India is witnessing increasing digitisation with people getting greater and easier access to financial services, which has led to a shift in consumers' financial behaviour from cash to e-wallets and UPI, NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar…

New Delhi: In a major boost for the digital economy, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said during her Budget speech that the Centre has proposed to set up 75 digital banking units (DBUs) in 75 districts across India through scheduled…

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In less than three months after becoming Prime Minister, Narendra Modi declared on the Independence Day his intention to bank all Indian families with the Jan Dhan Yojana. It was received with enough scepticism as it wasn’t the first time a…

Mumbai: Crypto assets are worth considering and can be used to bring about more financial inclusion, Nandan Nilekani, chairman of software services exporter , said at the Reuters Next Conference on Wednesday. "There is a role for crypto as…

46-year-old Sumitra Devi is employed as a domestic worker at an upscale residential complex in Patna. Kumari is a widow and lives alone – her children have moved to different parts of the country in search of work. When the first wave of…

Anshika Khanna (name changed) was a 20-year-old college student when she first understood the concepts of saving and investing. “My roommate would diligently draft a budget and list each and every expense regularly. She would read…

SalaryBox, an employee management app for small enterprises, has raised $4 million in seed funding from Silicon Valley-based startup accelerator Y Combinator and others to further its endeavour of bringing blue-collar workers into the…

NEW DELHI: A robust digital infrastructure, careful recalibration of bank branches, increase in mobile transactions and a jump in number of bank branches has improved India's financial inclusion metrics, a report by State Bank of India…