Arundhati Ramanathan

Arundhati writes on the tech sector at large and fintechs specifically. If you have any interesting ideas in these areas, reach out at [email protected] In her ten years as a journalist, she has worked with Reuters, Outlook Business and financial daily Mint, across Mumbai, Chennai and Bengaluru. Now, she lives in Bengaluru and is looking to tell stories that make a difference.

Articles by Arundhati

21/05/19

The Razorpay payments Matrix: Can this Neo bank be The One?

08/05/19

Lessons for India from three women taking on Google, Facebook and Amazon

Arundhati Ramanathan

22/04/19

Thanks to KaiOS, Google and Jio are caught in a three-legged race

Arundhati Ramanathan

04/04/19

Qwikcilver: Pine Labs sends itself a $110-million online gift voucher

Arundhati Ramanathan

23/03/19

Payments banks struggle to move beyond payments

Sidhartha Shukla, Arundhati Ramanathan

19/03/19

What’s eating venture debt in India?

Arundhati Ramanathan

06/03/19

Five Star Finance shows unsecured lending is overrated

Arundhati Ramanathan

22/02/19

OK Google, meet Net Neutrality

Arundhati Ramanathan

13/02/19

Reliance’s second “pilot” is here, for retail this time

Arundhati Ramanathan

01/02/19

When did Cibil Watch become Cibil Stalk?

Arundhati Ramanathan

17/01/19

Google the dealer meets Google the player

Arundhati Ramanathan

03/01/19

2019, a year of sobriety for fintechs

Arundhati Ramanathan

10/12/18

From Ezetap to WhatsApp: The story of a founder’s exit

Arundhati Ramanathan

28/11/18

Google wants its share of SHAREit’s sideloading pie

Arundhati Ramanathan

16/11/18

When MFIs stop being startup banks’ golden goose

Arundhati Ramanathan

31/10/18

Too big to regulate fintech? India’s Reserve Bank is in the crosshairs

Arundhati Ramanathan

22/10/18

Google adding shopping in India: Big deal?

Olina Banerji, Arundhati Ramanathan

17/10/18

Alexa, how skilled are you?

Arundhati Ramanathan

02/10/18

For Alphabet’s CapitalG, offline lending is back in vogue

Arundhati Ramanathan

24/09/18

An insider’s guide to India’s tech policy underground

Arundhati Ramanathan, Olina Banerji

07/09/18

Can Big Business be big business for WeWork?

Arundhati Ramanathan

29/08/18

Berkshire comes bearing gifts for Paytm

Arundhati Ramanathan

13/08/18

Inside the Paytm Payments Bank fiasco

Arundhati Ramanathan, Ashish K. Mishra

01/08/18

UPI, India’s massive fintech nudge, misses a step: automatic payments

Arundhati Ramanathan

20/07/18

Zopper buy takes PhonePe to PoS pay

Arundhati Ramanathan

13/07/18

Peak AWS?

Arundhati Ramanathan

02/07/18

Inside the race to modernise kirana stores

Arundhati Ramanathan

20/06/18

Peer-to-peer lending claims its first victims

Arundhati Ramanathan

05/06/18

Knock, knock. Who’s there? Bharat BillPay.

Arundhati Ramanathan

31/05/18

ICICI Bank also wants to be a fintech

Arundhati Ramanathan

18/05/18

40-year-olds: Every employer’s Darwinian reality

Arundhati Ramanathan

16/05/18

40 and outdated

Arundhati Ramanathan

23/04/18

Visa and MasterCard’s FOMO

Arundhati Ramanathan

16/04/18

Pay Later, the next wallet

Arundhati Ramanathan

04/04/18

Banks’ PoS plans tied in a three-legged race

Arundhati Ramanathan

14/03/18

For Cisco, India is no longer all that special

Arundhati Ramanathan

08/03/18

Data breach? No big deal: Indian companies take it easy

Sidhartha Shukla, Shashidhar KJ, Arundhati Ramanathan

26/02/18

NPCI, The God of Many Things

Arundhati Ramanathan

14/02/18

Facebook tests the waters for a walled payments garden in India

Arundhati Ramanathan

07/02/18

The UPI musical chairs

Arundhati Ramanathan, Shashidhar KJ

01/02/18

Angel Tax and the harangued champions of change

Arundhati Ramanathan

22/01/18

Mutual fund investments are subject to ‘regulatory’ risks

Arundhati Ramanathan

19/01/18

MobiKwik

Arundhati Ramanathan

11/01/18

Indian banks’ crypto crackdown sends investors to buy over the counter

Sidhartha Shukla, Arundhati Ramanathan

03/01/18

Pssst, do you want a loan with those fries?

Arundhati Ramanathan

29/12/17

The Fast and the Furious world of Fintech

Arundhati Ramanathan

22/12/17

Businesses to get a GST version of BHIM

Arundhati Ramanathan

12/12/17

Paytm Lemonade

Arundhati Ramanathan

05/12/17

Round one: PaisaBazaar scores over BankBazaar

Arundhati Ramanathan

23/11/17

Dunzo’s battle to become India’s ‘Uber of X’

Arundhati Ramanathan

10/11/17

The demonetisation break: PayPal’s tricky bet on India

Arundhati Ramanathan

16/10/17

RBI has kicked off a shark fight for wallet users

Arundhati Ramanathan

04/10/17

What’s pinning down Instamojo and Razorpay?

Arundhati Ramanathan

20/09/17

What does Estonia have that India doesn’t?

Arundhati Ramanathan

05/09/17

On the elevator pitches of Niti Aayog’s Champions of Change

Arundhati Ramanathan

28/08/17

Fintech lenders have new competition: Flipkart and Amazon

Arundhati Ramanathan

21/08/17

India’s too-big-to-fail GST infrastructure

Arundhati Ramanathan

09/08/17

Chillr feels the chill. Cold winds of consolidation blow over the payments landscape

Arundhati Ramanathan

02/08/17

RBI checks out credit checker Perfios

Arundhati Ramanathan

20/07/17

GST gives Tally wings

Arundhati Ramanathan

17/07/17

Offline is the new online: the cycle of e-commerce comes full circle

Patanjali Pahwa, Arundhati Ramanathan, Ashish K. Mishra

04/07/17

The growing up of Ather Energy

Arundhati Ramanathan, Ashish K. Mishra

22/06/17

Can money be the new sticker that Hike wants?

Arundhati Ramanathan, Venkat Ananth

16/06/17

PhonePe’s offline overtures

Arundhati Ramanathan

02/06/17

The blue-collar job market puts Babajob out of work

Arundhati Ramanathan

23/05/17

Zerodha’s boundaries

Arundhati Ramanathan

11/05/17

Rock. NPCI. Hard Place.

Arundhati Ramanathan

28/04/17

When banks aim to be like Amazon Web Services

Arundhati Ramanathan

19/04/17

Stripe Inc will need a new set of stripes for India

Arundhati Ramanathan

04/04/17

WhatsApp picks UPI for payments

Arundhati Ramanathan

24/03/17

Wallets without borders

Arundhati Ramanathan

14/03/17

Credit cards get heavy for wallets

Arundhati Ramanathan

08/03/17

The gap you can’t ignore

Nikita Takkar, Arundhati Ramanathan, Ruhi Kandhari

03/03/17

The story of 6000+ layoffs

Ashish K. Mishra, Arundhati Ramanathan

01/03/17

Barbarians at the gate

Arundhati Ramanathan

13/02/17

Defence PSUs are firing blanks

Arundhati Ramanathan

02/02/17

A game with no winners

Arundhati Ramanathan

25/01/17

The unlikely story of BHIM, the upsetter of plans

Arundhati Ramanathan

19/01/17

The Q in QuikrServices

Arundhati Ramanathan

03/01/17

The GST gamble of ClearTax

Arundhati Ramanathan

29/12/16

E for Eccentric

Arundhati Ramanathan

14/12/16

I was placed on campus. And then…

Patanjali Pahwa, Arundhati Ramanathan

13/12/16

IITians have a weak heart for startups

Arundhati Ramanathan

07/12/16

Urban Ladder

Arundhati Ramanathan

01/12/16

How Bourn Hall got knocked down

Arundhati Ramanathan

17/11/16

Kicking The Habit

Arundhati Ramanathan

16/11/16

1Mg Goes Light

Arundhati Ramanathan

24/10/16

The tough act of being an Uber of trucks

Arundhati Ramanathan

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