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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Managing Partner &amp; Co-Founder Prime Venture Partners</em></p>
[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=""]<em>Catalyst <div style="display:none"><a href="http://blog-workout.com/workout-blog/gymnastics-stretching-and-fitball-exercises.html" title="Gymnastics">Gymnastics</a></div> recently caught up with Mr. Sanjay Swamy on the promising innovations in the fintech and payments space in India.</em>[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="20px"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text text_color="#555555" font_size="16px" letter_spacing="" el_class="lh22" css=".vc_custom_1528196385697{margin-top: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}"]
<div class="pred"><strong>Merchant digital payment acceptance in India is still low at less than 5%. Why is small merchants / business digitisation particularly thorny? Is there a silver bullet here?</strong></div>
Digital Payments have been slow to find adoption in the offline world in India. Three key reasons have come in the way of digital payment acceptance for small merchants.
First, the friction to be included in the system - merchant acquirers have fairly complex requirements for the same
Second, post the one-time onboarding effort, there are several fundamental attributes of cash that digital payments do not have. This includes realization of full value - vs. transaction costs, instant settlement vs. next-day or T+2 settlements, anonymity vs. identified users - consumers often do not want to disclose their name or mobile number to merchants, and finally, traceability of transactions for merchants not wanting to report - though this is made out to be a lot bigger than I believe it is.
The third big reason for the slow uptake has been the inability and unwillingness of the payments service providers to invest in acquisition or education of the small merchant eco-system - largely because of the high costs of on-boarding and low relative ROI. Simplified KYC and/or restricting acceptance to debit-like instruments could make it possible to streamline the same and make it easy for one to start accept digital payments.

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<div class="pred"><strong>With sales of feature phones on the upswing, how critical is the need for non-smartphone friendly solutions? How do we devise efficient workflows for feature phone driven payment solutions? Are there any exciting innovations here to look out for?</strong></div>
Non-SmartPhone solutions are an ice-cube in the sun - it is clear that in the next two years the market will move entirely to smartphones and I for one am dubious about any innovations in the feature phone area having any meaningful adoption. I personally am not looking to invest in feature phone-based solutions in banking and payments. The Smartphone is the #1 aspirational product that non-smartphone users have today. I strongly advise entrepreneurs to ignore the current feature-phone market as it is not here to stay. I may be entirely wrong, but that is my view of the world.

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<div class="pred"><strong>We have seen UPI overtake PPIs in uptake, on the other hand, the full-KYC mandate has affected <div style="display:none"><a href="http://erektil-dysfunktion-specialist.net/sildenafil/kobe-sildigra-100mg-i-danmark-online.html">Kobe Sildigra 100mg I Danmark Online</a></div> an erosion of user-base for PPIs with less than 10% of users updating to full KYC. Where do you see PPIs going from here? Is there a business case for PPIs even now, or is it the end of the road for them?</strong></div>
UPI by itself isn�t the threat to PPI�s - it actually brings PPI�s on par with the banks from an interoperability perspective. However, it is clear that this is the end-of-the-road for vanilla PPI�s, as the benefit over a traditional savings bank account has gone away. However, I�m glad to see the more successful PPI�s innovating rapidly and bringing a differentiated experience, becoming marketplaces for credit. The ongoing success of a PPI will be a result of their ability to continue to innovate ahead of banks.

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<div class="pred"><strong>UPI and Aadhaar Pay are powerful but still relatively nascent technologies that are growing and improving rapidly. At this stage, what are the key macro strategies to accelerate this growth?</strong></div>
UPI is off to a rollicking start in the P2P payments space as it is a friction-free, zero-cost real-time solution. Aadhaar Pay on the other hand has a long-way to go before it hits any critical mass. The key to the success of both these technologies is investment in acceptance, and as these get universally accepted, you will see a lot more adoption.

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<div class="pred"><strong>Prime Ventures has invested in several Fintech startups (for instance, Niyo) which digitize different elements of business activity such as payroll management, invoice discounting etc. Thus far, innovation has been restricted largely to the formal economy. How do you suggest innovation for the much larger informal sector be incentivised?</strong></div>
Financial Inclusion has been a key focus area for startups. However viable business models have yet to emerge. We are continuously evaluating such companies for investment, and I�m guessing we will start seeing viable companies emerge soon. The formal economy is very innovation ready, which is why we have backed several companies that are making financial services more accessible and providing a better experience for end-users - whether consumers or businesses.

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<div class="pred"><strong>Outside your own portfolio, what are the two fintech companies to look out for? And what�s the next biggest payments idea that you are placing bets on? </strong></div>
Rather than name anyone, at Prime Venture Partners, we�re constantly on the lookout for fintech entrepreneurs who have a differentiated understanding of the market, have a product innovation that is valuable to a large customer base, and have a distribution strategy that is cleverly scalable - at least over time. The next big payments idea I�m looking to back is hopefully the one the reader of this is working on, and I�m always happy to chat, brainstorm and if possible invest![/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]