TRAINS WEARING MASKS THREAD😷

#CashlessConsumer #PaymentDeepdives We also have Beni Chugh of Dvara Research: Public Policy & Advocacy and Praneeth Bodduluri of Base analysing Tarunima Prabhakar 's paper on "New Era for Credit Scoring" this Sat 4 PM RSVP hasgeek.com/cashlessconsum…

Some lessons from building a personal finance startup:

Good to see our article on Account Aggregators in EPW part of the reading list for this Lok Sabha session. cc Praneeth Bodduluri loksabhaph.nic.in/writereaddata/… #onlineprivacy #accountaggregators

Flying after a year. Everything feels weird. PPE suites remind me of the time spent in clean rooms back in satellite days.

The Dubai experiment.

After years of using only card/wallet for Taxi rides. I am now considering switching the default to cash. All this while I was not paying attention when someone would request for cash instead of card/wallet.

#captainobvious - sometimes it is amazing how the economy of the world is connected. Having coffee from Costa rica roasted in Russia brewed on a Japanese V60 paid through a German Card by an Indian sitting in Georgia, who is paid by entities in Europe and USA 🤯

Looks like NBFC AA PR machinery is revving up. Its hard not to assume bias when seemingly independent articles all get published around the same time.

Clean up

Sigh. Spam from harvested contact social graph. CRED

Everytime I pass through immigration smart gates in Dubai - I am both amazed and little spooked. I remove my glasses, stare at a camera, it prints my name and opens the gate. No scanning my passport or any other ID at the smart gate.