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We wanted to take a moment to explain what Base is about, and why we think you will find it valuable. This is Base - blog.baseaccount.com/what-is-base-1… #Introduction #IFTTT #startup 🎉👨‍💻

Hey Tweeple! You can now hook your IFTTT events to savings into a Mutual Fund. So that you can do things like, when you post a selfie 🤳, you can put away money into a mutual fund. Checkout baseaccount.com for more deets!

So food ordering apps eat into savings? livemint.com/money/personal… If only there were a way to connect food orders with savings - ifttt.com/applets/VCUTPS… #shamelessplug

Not by Fremulon. And we're Not a bank. Everything else in there 👇 is a #truestory though. #Noice #NineNine #MoneyTalks

Peak Fintech from Base : Breaking down the fee structure of #UPI payments to find out who makes how much blog.baseaccount.com/peak-fintech-b… | Most detailed tear down you can ever find on cost in #UPI 👏🏾👏🏾 Rohan Jahagirdar

Tried comparing Aman Singh and Digit Insurance numbers to see if they can be used as a proxy to find out if people actually self buy insurance - more about it here -> blog.baseaccount.com/do-we-buy-insu…

" It’s not a credit product. People want to buy stuff now and pay later; " - Fintech CEO. Post truth world. Also related Base blog blog.baseaccount.com/pay-later-post… by Praneeth Bodduluri

This week I look into how Pay Later schemes are regulated(not) and how they seem so much like a credit card - while flying under the regulatory radar. As with all of these posts, I welcome criticisms and comments. blog.baseaccount.com/pay-later-post…

It's time we moved beyond just paying lip service to #transparency in #FinTech. Users deserve to know why they are being sold certain products, and how their data is used for decision making for things like loans approvals- blog.baseaccount.com/how-we-can-mak…

Srikanth.CashlessConsumer | ஸ்‌ரீகாந்த் Base Here's a short sequel to the earlier piece about fee structure of #UPI payments. Partial information about the rates is as good disinformation. It's essential for the UPI to clarify the fee-structure. blog.baseaccount.com/peak-fintech-p…

This week I look into the anomaly that is "Digital Gold", and how payment platforms seem to be (ab?)using it. When the underlying asset is the same, why are there different AML/KYC norms? blog.baseaccount.com/gold-is-gold-i…

I wrote recently about the difference in the operational efficiencies b/w large banks & smaller ones - “So how many bank employees does it take to bring in ₹x in performing assets?” link.medium.com/eGWRxqnPW1 #Banking #Lending

While we talk a lot about financial inclusion - we often forget the Post office and how much it does for inclusion. Fun fact: Post office savings accounts precede RBI. Here is something I wrote about last week - link.medium.com/iULxckAta2 - Had a lot of fun writing this.

Free read: #UPI makes it easy for a merchant to accept payments digitally, but it fares poorly when compared with a card transaction due to its complex architecture, says Praneeth Bodduluri bit.ly/2rSy74X

My piece on the "building for Bharat" phenomena - blog.baseaccount.com/hijacking-bhar… I contest the merits of the Bharat narrative - especially in the way the word, Bharat, itself has been hijacked by a few people pursuing their limited agenda. (1/n)

Resonating with Rohan Jahagirdar -> "The Building for Bharat movement, a rising phenomenon, reaches for identity under the garb of thought leadership. However, identity is inconsequential to building good products." blog.baseaccount.com/hijacking-bhar…

Despite the novelty and benefits that come with the set up of Account Aggregators, there have been issues surrounding privacy and safety of individual’s fin info. Me and Praneeth Bodduluri wrote about the trade-offs that emanate from the architectural choices - epw.in/node/157005/pdf

Please checkout this article on Account Aggregator / NBFC(AA) ecosystem. This is a distilled form of some of the developments we have been watching in the Indian Fintech ecosystem. Happy for any feedback.