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Financial inclusion

  • Over 80% Indians now have bank accounts. How many are actually using them?

    Over 80% Indians now have bank accounts. How many are actually using them?

    Neha Abraham, FactChecker.in
    · May 18, 2019 · 08:30 pm
  • Your Morning Fix, Special: Have banking services become more accessible for Indians? #TheModiYears

    Your Morning Fix, Special: Have banking services become more accessible for Indians? #TheModiYears

    Scroll Staff
    · Apr 19, 2019 · 06:30 am
  • The Modi Years: Have banking services become more accessible for Indians?

    The Modi Years: Have banking services become more accessible for Indians?

    Mridula Chari
    · Mar 04, 2019 · 07:30 pm
  • Nandan Nilekani to chair RBI panel to improve digital payments

    Nandan Nilekani to chair RBI panel to improve digital payments

    Scroll Staff
    · Jan 08, 2019 · 05:22 pm
  • Modi in Singapore: US has great opportunity to make defence equipment in India, PM tells Mike Pence

    Modi in Singapore: US has great opportunity to make defence equipment in India, PM tells Mike Pence

    Scroll Staff
    · Nov 14, 2018 · 09:42 am
  • How poor rural women drove Bandhan Bank’s spectacular stock market debut

    How poor rural women drove Bandhan Bank’s spectacular stock market debut

    Subir Roy
    · Apr 03, 2018 · 12:30 pm
  • China’s dystopian social credit system is a harbinger of the global age of the algorithm

    China’s dystopian social credit system is a harbinger of the global age of the algorithm

    Stefan Brehm, The Conversation Nicholas Loubere, The Conversation
    · Jan 18, 2018 · 09:30 pm
  • Aadhaar has been made mandatory for bank accounts – but more than half of them are yet to be linked

    Aadhaar has been made mandatory for bank accounts – but more than half of them are yet to be linked

    Mayank Jain
    · Jun 16, 2017 · 07:45 pm
  • Centre's push to go cashless will have to surmount illiteracy, lack of trust in digital payments

    Centre's push to go cashless will have to surmount illiteracy, lack of trust in digital payments

    Anumeha Yadav
    · Nov 29, 2016 · 09:00 am
  • Demonetisation: India's unbanked population would be the world's 7th-largest country

    Demonetisation: India's unbanked population would be the world's 7th-largest country

    Rohan Venkataramakrishnan
    · Nov 25, 2016 · 03:00 pm
  • Now, startups allow you to borrow without going to a moneylender – or even a bank

    Now, startups allow you to borrow without going to a moneylender – or even a bank

    Mayank Jain
    · Aug 26, 2016 · 06:30 am