The central bank hasn’t completely abandoned the plan to create an alternative to India’s flagship payment processor. But the competing consortiums, including the likes of Reliance, Tata, Google and Meta, still have a long way to go.
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The P2P lending platform is the only one that is still doing substantial business after the central bank tightened the rules last August, virtually shutting down the sector. It has carried on as though the new rules don’t exist.
Anything that an average user can achieve with the e-rupee, they can already do with UPI. But there is a different purpose altogether for the digital currency.