Posts tagged "fintech"

The Rise of Indian Fintech: From Paytm to the Next Wave

Post-Paytm turbulence, what does India's fintech landscape look like? Account aggregators, ONDC, and the infrastructure plays.

March 8, 2026 8 min read

The UPI Revolution: How India Built the World's Fastest Payment System

The engineering and policy decisions that turned UPI into the world's most used real-time payment rail.

February 8, 2026 9 min read

India's Tax-Compliance UX in Real-Money Apps: An Observer's Notebook on the Section 194BA Rollout (2026)

An 18-month tech-observer notebook on how India's real-money app operators actually implement Section 194BA (30% TDS) and Section 115BBJ (player-side 30% flat tax) — six UX signals that distinguish mature compliance from checkbox compliance, three app-level patterns I've measured on my Pixel bench, where the operator long tail is still breaking, and what the compliance-UX investment tells me about which products are built to last.

October 13, 2026 10 min read