The Future of Finance Initiative seeks to identify and address new challenges for policy and regulation in India given the waves of digital innovation currently sweeping financial services. Our work in this initiative studies the impacts of digitisation and technological innovation in Indian finance, leading from the consumer perspective on these issues.
Head - Future of Finance
Research Associate
Senior Research Associate
In this document, we present our initial comments on the Personal Data Protection Bill 2019 (the Bill), introduced in the Lok Sabha in December 2019. This continues our engagement with the public consultation process on India’s new data protection regime since 2017.2 We welcome the introduction of the Bill in Parliament as an important development to take forward India’s journey towards an overarching data protection framework.
The second part of a two-part series that undertakes an analysis of the Account Aggregator system
The first part of a two-part series that undertakes an analysis of the Account Aggregator system
TLF is proud to bring you a two-part guest post authored by Ms. Malavika Raghavan, Head, Future of Finance Initiative and Ms. Anubhutie Singh, Policy Analyst, Future of Finance Initiative at Dvara Research.
TLF is proud to bring you a two-part guest post authored by Ms. Malavika Raghavan, Head, Future of Finance Initiative and Ms. Anubhutie Singh, Policy Analyst, Future of Finance Initiative at Dvara Research.
Our society operates on the basis of trust. We use this trust every day. To build friendships, to buy and sell things, to vote, to claim protection and benefits from the State when they are due.
Roundtable on Implementing India’s Personal Data Protection Bill
India's financial sector has been a gung-ho adopter of technology. But design of technology and finance have hardly reflected users’ lived realities.
This paper presents ideas for a new approach to enforcement of a data protection regime, based on risk-based supervision and the use of a range of responsive enforcement tools that could be deployed in advance of a breach to prevent it, or after a breach to mitigate the effects.
Examining the definition and usage of the term “harm” in India’s draft Personal Data Protection Bill 2018.
In all our research efforts, we strive to maintain an independent voice that speaks for the low-income household and household enterprises. Our ability to perform this function is significantly enhanced by our commitment to disseminate as a pure public good, all the intellectual capital that we create.
