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The Future Of Finance Initiative

The Future of Finance Initiative seeks to identify and address new challenges for policy and regulation in India given the waves of digital innovation currently sweeping financial services. Our work in this initiative studies the impacts of digitisation and technological innovation in Indian finance, leading from the consumer perspective on these issues. 

Anubhutie Singh Dvara

Anubhutie Singh

Research Associate

Beni Chugh Dvara

Beni Chugh

Head - Future of Finance

Latest works

September 19, 2019 | Dvara Research

Regulators and even the government have off-late been invested in understanding the landscape of fintech activities and devising an appropriate response to its attendant risks and opportunities.

By FFI
September 17, 2019 | Dvara Research

In this Response, we present our comments on the RBI’s Discussion Paper on the Guidelines for Payment Gateways (PG) and Payment Aggregators (PA) in response to the call for comments from stakeholders (Reserve Bank of India, 2019c). Our comments are organised into five broad themes...

By Beni Chugh, Madhu Srinivas, Anubhutie Singh, Sarah Stanley
August 20, 2019 | Dvara Research

Reflecting on central recommendations in the Nilekani Report and the Vision 21 Document along with the key aspects of the user journey for digital payments.

June 18, 2019 | Dvara Research

On RBI’s proposed Public Credit Registry and its implications.

May 8, 2019 | Dvara Research

Response to the Reserve Bank of India on the Draft Enabling Framework for Regulatory Sandbox

May 6, 2019 | Dvara Research

Harms facing users in the digital ecosystem that players in the Indian ecosystem must contemplate in order to build appropriate safeguards

By Srikara Prasad
April 15, 2019 | Dvara Research

Examining the preparedness of the MSME sector to adopt digital platforms and report on the trends for adoption of IT.

By Biswaraj Paul Choudhury