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Digital payments platform CRED has also rolled out its digital rupee wallet’s beta version for a few users.

MobiKwik on Tuesday became India’s first fintech platform to launch a full-scale central bank digital currency wallet, according to the company’s press release. A CBDC wallet allows users to store the digital version of the Indian rupee, also known as e-rupee or digital rupee, issued by the Reserve Bank of India. Meanwhile, CRED also entered the CBDC space, giving a select set of users access to its digital rupee wallet, Reuters reported.
This marks the entry of Indian fintech firms into CBDC after the RBI extended the permission to non-banking entities to offer digital currency transactions in April …
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