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The Future of Cryptotokens (Presentation)

December 20, 2019
Chakravorti presented his paper with Joey Biasi, titled "The Future of Cryptotokens," at the World Banking and Finance Symposium in New Delhi in December 2019.
Presentation

Current State of FinTech Evolution in India and Beyond

December 17, 2019
As part of training of Indian senior bankers, the National Institute of Bank Management located in Pune, India, invitedChakravorti to teach three courses. This course is on the evolution of FinTech in India and beyond. Specifically, the presentation focuses on how FinTechs provide greater access to payments, lending, and investments...
Presentation

FinTechs and MSME Lending

December 17, 2019
As part of training of Indian senior bankers, the National Institute of Bank Management located in Pune, India, invited Chakravorti to teach three courses. This course is on the FinTech financing options of MSMEs.
Presentation

Cryptocurrency

December 17, 2019
As part of training of Indian senior bankers, the National Institute of Bank Management located in Pune, India, invited Bob Chakravorti to teach three courses. This course is on the viability and applications of cryptocurrencies and crypto assets.
Presentation

How FinTech Can Help Unlock SME Financing in the MCD Region

November 22, 2019
In this presentation, Chakravorti discusses the challenges in SME lending in the Middle East and Central Asia. He focuses on the potential of FinTechs to reduce lending frictions and increase financing in the region.
Presentation

Disruption in Payments: Opportunities and Challenges

November 21, 2019
In this presentation, Chakravorti discusses how new entrants are disrupting payments. Specifically, he looks at how FinTechs are leveraging new technologies and Big Tech firms leveraging their large user bases to provide payment services to underserved segments often at lower prices. He also analyzes the role of the public sector...
Book Chapter

The Future of Cryptotokens

October 21, 2019
In this chapter, Biasi and Chakravorti study how cryptotoken issuance, also referred to as initial coin offerings and security token offerings, may disrupt funding markets such as venture capital, crowdfunding, and private equity. The authors discuss the necessary infrastructure to support this new asset class. The authors analyze the market...
Trade Journal

New Payment Technologies: Back to Basics

May 16, 2016
A core function of any banking system is the provision of payments. However, a greater number of non-banks are becoming part of the payments landscape. Payments can be made via fiat or crypto currencies, bank credit or deposits, or funds transfers on the books of non-bank payment providers. Most of...
Academic Journal

The Role of Interchange Fees in Two-Sided Markets: An Empirical Investigation on Payment Cards

April 21, 2016
Carbó, Chakravorti, and Rodriguez study the impact of lowering interchange fees on consumer and merchant adoption and usage along with bank revenues during a ten-year period in Spain using bank-level data. Using cutting-edge econometric techniques, they are able to test two-sided market model predictions about payment card pricing policies. They...
Central Bank and Multilateral Agency Publication

Why Do We Still Write So Many Checks?

October 01, 2002
In this article, Chakravorti and McHugh address why consumers, merchants, and financial institutions are reluctant to embrace electronic payments even though electronic payment networks, such as the credit card and automated clearinghouse (ACH) networks, have existed for more than 25 years. While most Internet-based transactions are primarily processed via credit...
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