The road to 2047 runs through UPI
UPI began as a solution to India’s fragmented payments system. A decade later, it is expanding formal finance, enabling new credit models and laying infrastructure for the digital economy of 2047.
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UPI began as a solution to India’s fragmented payments system. A decade later, it is expanding formal finance, enabling new credit models and laying infrastructure for the digital economy of 2047.
Ten years ago, a payments protocol went live across twenty-one banks with little fanfare and a first-month tally of just 373 transactions. Today, that same system, the Unified Payments Interface (UPI…
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