Why India Leads in Digital Payments
Andreessen Horowitz
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
The groundwork was Aadhaar (“foundation” in Hindi), a nationwide database established by the government in 2009 to enable digital identity verification. This helped with fraud and enabled smooth KYC compliance. UPI has since become the world’s fifth largest payment network by volume, and a model for the rest of the globe.
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