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Catalyst’s Digital Payments Lab

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This infographic provides a snapshot of the Catalyst program’s approach to promote last-mile digital payment solutions for underserved communities of merchants and consumers in India. Through a partnership with the Government of Rajasthan, Catalyst set up a Digital Payment Lab … Read More

Fintech Customer Centricity

Jayshree Venkatesan, Varinder Gambhir, Sunanda Singhal, Myla Swallow

This playbook aims to equip fintech companies with the tools essential to design customer-centric products and delivery models. Drawing on tools such as the CGAP Customer Centric guide, the Do It Yourself (DIY) toolkit developed by Nesta and Quicksand, the … Read More

A Small Business Go-to Guide for Going Cashless

Sapna Bharath and Gaurav Singhal

This infographic provides a snapshot of the different mobile-based, biometric and card-based digital payment solutions available in India, including a breakup of the technology prerequisites, transaction costs and limits across different platforms.

Leveraging GST for Digital Payments

Mandar Kagade, Raghav Katyal, Janak Priyani, Diksha Singh

This learning note presents insights from a study conducted by Catalyst to understand pain points around GST compliance for wholesalers merchants, and identifies strategies for leveraging tax compliance as a hook for digitising payments.

Is Cash the King?

Shilpa Pandit, Preethi Kannan, Vedika Inamdar, Praveen, Deepthi Kc

Using ethnographic and in-depth qualitative interview research methods, this study sought to understand the factors that influence usage of cash and digital payment solutions among microbusinesses and market clusters of Jaipur, India. This report presents insights on the transaction profile … Read More

Limitless Opportunities, Limiting Constraints

Mridulya Narasimhan, Nidhi Punmia

The aim of this study was to assess the design and delivery of initiatives that aim to promote digital payment adoption among low-income clusters of Jaipur, Rajasthan. This report presents insights on household income patterns, expenditure profiles, saving and borrowing … Read More

Inclusive Finance India Summit 2018

Catalyst held a breakout session on ‘Innovative Digital Payment Business Models for Small Merchants and Low-income Households’ at the Inclusive Finance India Summit 2018. … Read More

Kaleidofin: Advancing Financial Inclusion Through Data Analytics

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Through its Incubator Program – Fintech for the last mile, Catalyst provided financial support, market access, mentorship, technology infrastructure, research and operations support to five startups which included startup Kaleidofin. This piece captures insights from an interview with Sucharita Mukherjee … Read More

Digital Financial Inclusion of Women

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This field story highlights the gender gap in access and usage of digital payment platforms in Bhatta Basti, Jaipur and identifies strategies to enable adoption by women.

Strengthening the Potential of Digital Finance for Women in Bhatta Basti

Deepti Kc

This learning note unpacks the barriers and opportunities for improving women’s adoption of digital payment solutions, based on an experiment conducted as part of the Catalyst program in Jaipur. The intervention sought to improve women’s access to formal financial services … Read More