Banks in India are collaborating on a new blockchain platform to remove financing hurdles for micro, small and medium size businesses, local daily news outlet Economic Times reported Jan. 28.
A total of eleven banks - including second-biggest lender Kotak Mahindra Bank, State Bank of India and ICICI Bank - are already meeting to discuss the implementation of a platform that will make it easier for businesses with smaller turnover to raise funds transparently.
The move is being organized under a consortium dubbed the "Blockchain Infrastructure Company."
"Credit penetration is low for the [MSME] sector where the ticket size is generally believed to be between 10 lakh rupees and 1 crore rupees ," Viral Acharya, Deputy Governor of India's central bank, the Reserve Bank of India, said at a conference last week.
India has sought to expand its state-wide use of blockchain technology throughout recent years as a conversely hostile line on cryptocurrency persists.
In June 2018, the government announced it planned to launch a blockchain project called IndiaChain, which would ostensibly allow private and state entities to build tools such as payment apps while keeping track of huge amounts of data.
Little additional information has been released, while cryptocurrencies continue to languish in a gray area, as regulatory efforts see multiple delays.
In response to the RBI's ban on servicing cryptocurrency businesses last July, Kotak Mahindra Bank recently went further than some others, allegedly blocking private account holders from dealing in cryptocurrency, Cointelegraph reported.
Several days later, a similar report emerged involving India's first digital bank, Digibank.
India: Bank Blockchain Consortium Targets Improvements to Small Business Financing
gepubliceerd op Jan 29, 2019
by Cointele | gepubliceerd op Coinage
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