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Season 1, Episode 147 · The Indian Dream

India's Digital Infrastructure - The Innovation that will unlock the $300 Billion MSME Lending Market - OCEN (Open Credit Enablement Network)

22 Jul 2022 · 49 min

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This is Part 1 of the series where we discuss India's Digital Infrastructure. Over the last few years, the Indian Government along with the support of iSpirt, have build India Stack. We're now close to seeing the full potential of India Stack with the recent launch of Account Aggregator, which will soon be followed by Open Credit Enablement Network. In today's episode, we deep-dive into the world of OCEN and discuss how it has the potential to unlock the $300 Billion MSME Lending ma...

The Indian Dream

by Sahil & Siddharth · English · Business

The Indian Dream tells the stories of the profitable, long term thinker, risk-taker Entrepreneur because the country needs to be told that there's also a way to build long term value generating businesses in the era of VC funded hyper-growth engines. We wish to use these voices to showcase the…

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