India’s Central Bank Tells Banks: Go Digital or Become Obsolete in the FinTech Age

India’s Central Bank Tells Banks: Go Digital or Become Obsolete in the FinTech Age

The deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India has said that banks need to go digital in the face of FinTech or they could risk becoming obsolete as the industry continues to grow. According to a report from Bloomberg Quint, SS Mundra said, to an audience at the College of Agricultural Banking, that banks shouldn’t see financial technology companies as a threat, but that the two should work together to help under-served and credit-starved micro and small enterprises (MSMEs). He said: An estimate suggests that at present almost 93 percent of such (micro) units are outside the formal....


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