The poll results are likely to have a bearing on trading and increased monitoring helps to keep in check possible manipulations and excessive volatility in the markets

However, it is not clear whether Bakshi and representatives of McDonald's India have appeared before the DRT yet

Aiming at a 'cash-lite' society, the RBI last week released the vision document for ensuring a safe, secure, convenient, quick and affordable e-payment system as it expects the number of digital transactions to increase

The government has experimented with multiple ways from gold ETFs, SGBs, gold mining funds, gold fund of funds (FoF) to digital gold.

Companies from all sectors, including banking, e-commerce, health and education, will be able to access the data; the policy will end monopoly over data

Although LivFin provides loans to distributors and vendors, it reaches out to them through the companies it works with. LivFin calls them 'anchors'. Currently, it has 9 anchors and 300 borrowers.

The RBI's latest vision document for payment and settlement systems, which outlines the road map for 2019 to 2021, aims to achieve a cash-lite society . To that end it proposes to examine round-the-clock availability of various payment systems, including NEFT

The moves comes in the backdrop of the regulator RBI asking such payment technology firms to comply with data localisation norms which requires them to store transactions data of Indian customers within the boundaries of India

More and more savings are being invested in financial instruments. But for this to increase further, the industry has to shape up.

B2B Tech Startup Ecosystem and Role of Corporate Accelerators in India, reveals that B2B tech start-ups have more than tripled -- from 900 to more than 3200 -- since 2014