{"id":150891,"date":"2021-12-04T20:00:24","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T14:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=150891"},"modified":"2021-12-11T17:59:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T12:29:49","slug":"pm-inaugurates-infinity-forum-a-thought-leadership-forum-on-fintech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pm-inaugurates-infinity-forum-a-thought-leadership-forum-on-fintech\/","title":{"rendered":"PM inaugurates InFinity Forum, a thought leadership Forum on FinTech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Prime Minister has inaugurated InFinity Forum, a thought leadership Forum on FinTech.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/honble-prime-minister-shri-narendra-modi-to-inaugurate-ifscas-infinity-forum-on-3rd-december-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Click Here to read about the InFinity Forum<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is Fintech?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fintech (finance and technology) refers to any business that uses technology to enhance or automate financial services and processes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><strong>What are the pillars of Fintech?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India\u2019s <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">financial inclusion efforts were the driver of the \u2018fintech revolution\u2019.Fintech is resting on four pillars &#8211; income, investments, insurance and institutional credit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When income grows, investment becomes possible; insurance covers enable greater risk-taking ability and investments, and institutional credit brings means for advancement. Hence, when all those factors come together, one will suddenly find a large number of people embracing fintech innovation.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>India\u2019s Financial Inclusion Initiatives with the help of Fintech\u00a0<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mobile payments in India exceeded ATM cash withdrawals for the first time last year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The government has universalised bank accounts with 430 million Jan Dhan accounts in the last seven years from less than 50% of Indians having bank accounts in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UPI is processing around 4.2 billion transactions in just last month<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PM Svanidhi enabled access to credit for small vendors across the country<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">e-RUPI enabled targeted delivery of specified services without leakages.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Suggestions to improve FinTech<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fintech firms should focus on ensuring greater security in their transactions to retain the trust of people who have embraced digital payments and financial technologies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201c<\/b><b>PM inaugurates InFinity Forum, a thought leadership Forum on FinTech<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published by<\/span><b> PIB<\/b><b> on 4th December 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? The Prime Minister has inaugurated InFinity Forum, a thought leadership Forum on FinTech. Click Here to read about the InFinity Forum What is Fintech? Fintech (finance and technology) refers to any business that uses technology to enhance or automate financial services and processes.\u00a0 What are the pillars of Fintech? India\u2019s financial&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pm-inaugurates-infinity-forum-a-thought-leadership-forum-on-fintech\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PM inaugurates InFinity Forum, a thought leadership Forum on FinTech<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,9],"tags":[4176,10539,3590],"class_list":["post-150891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-public","tag-ifsca","tag-infinity-forum","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1701345702},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}