Beni Chugh heads the Future of Finance Initiative. Her work focuses on identifying systemic stability and consumer protection concerns in digital finance. She also contributes to the Social Protection Open Digital Ecosystem workstream at Dvara Research, where her work focuses on designing and implementing citizen centric, digital social protection delivery platforms. Beni holds a Master’s in Public Policy from NLSIU, Bangalore and an M.A in Development Economics from the South Asian University, New Delhi.
Our response covers two themes: Leading from a customer protection perspective, our comments emphasise the need for the prospective SRO to have duties towards the customers, at par with responsibilities towards the regulator.