Digital Rupee Trial Begins; Exponential Growth in UPI Payments Backs Optimism on India’s CBDC Pilot: Experts

Digital Rupee Trial Begins; Exponential Growth in UPI Payments Backs Optimism on India’s CBDC Pilot: Experts

India’s digital rupee CBDC, officially stepped into its retail trial period in four cities — New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, and Bhubaneswar, on Thursday, December 1. The State Bank of India, ICICI Bank, Yes Bank, and IDFC First bank are the lenders that are participating in these trials, and upon completion,…

RBI’s First Pilot for Retail Digital Rupee to Go Live on December 1, Will Work in Select Locations

RBI’s First Pilot for Retail Digital Rupee to Go Live on December 1, Will Work in Select Locations

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is expanding the use cases of its digital rupee CBDC. Starting December 1, the testing for the Indian CBDC for retail purposes will kickstart in select regions in the country. Built on blockchain, the digital rupee is a virtual representation of India’s fiat currency…

Xiaomi Discontinues Financial Services Business in India Days After Pulling Out Some Mi Apps: Report

Xiaomi Discontinues Financial Services Business in India Days After Pulling Out Some Mi Apps: Report

Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi is winding down its financial services business in India, according to a recent report, citing sources familiar with the matter. The company recently pulled its Mi Pay and Mi Credit apps in India from the local Play Store and its own app store, the report from TechCrunch…

ED Freezes Fresh Deposits Worth Rs. 78 Crore After Raids at Premises of Razorpay, Chinese Loan Apps

ED Freezes Fresh Deposits Worth Rs. 78 Crore After Raids at Premises of Razorpay, Chinese Loan Apps

The ED on Friday said it has frozen fresh deposits worth Rs. 78 crore following raids at the premises of payment gateway Razorpay and some banks as part of an ongoing money laundering probe against the alleged illegal operations of loan apps “controlled” by Chinese nationals. The searches were carried…

Eleven Percent of Global Web3 Talent Resides in India, Number Expected to Soon Grow by 120 Percent: Report

Eleven Percent of Global Web3 Talent Resides in India, Number Expected to Soon Grow by 120 Percent: Report

India, where rules and regulations around the crypto sector are still under drafting, is witnessing a big boom. Around 11 percent of the world’s total Web3 talent resides in India, the nation’s primary non-government tech trade body Nasscom said in a recent report. Titled ‘The India Web3 Startup Landscape, An…

Government to Set Up 25,000 New Mobile Towers in the Next 500 Days: IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw

Government to Set Up 25,000 New Mobile Towers in the Next 500 Days: IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw

With an objective to ensure connectivity to every corner of the country, the government has approved setting up of 25,000 new towers in the next 500 days with an investment of Rs. 26,000 crore, Union Minister for Communications, Electronics and Information Technology and Railways Ashwini Vaishnaw has said. Vaishnaw made…

Ola, Uber said to Have Asked Their Indian Partners to Ensure Working Rear Seatbelt

Ola, Uber said to Have Asked Their Indian Partners to Ensure Working Rear Seatbelt

Ride-hailing company Uber Technologies has asked its drivers in India to ensure backseat seatbelts in their vehicles are accessible to passengers and they work, days after a local business tycoon died in a crash involving his private car. The move comes amid a growing road-safety push in India, the world’s…

Digital Rupee Trial Begins; Exponential Growth in UPI Payments Backs Optimism on India’s CBDC Pilot: Experts

Healthcare, Logistics to See Most Benefits via Blockchain: Crypto-Centric Venture Firm Cypher

India recently secured the fourth position on the 2022 Global Crypto Adoption Index compiled by blockchain research firm Chainalysis. These ranks numbered all the countries based on their varied uses of different crypto-services and India outranked US and Russia on the scale that testified to the growing adoption of crypto…