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Bob Chakravorti, PhD

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Unlocking Capital for Climate Projects

September 25, 2024
In this blog, Chakravorti discusses voluntary carbon markets (VCMs) and their potentially important role to enable us to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. Carbon offsets allow corporates to negate their residual greenhouse gas emissions including indirect emissions in corporates upstream and downstream value chain, commonly referred to as...
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Incentives to Adopt Digital Payments: Some Examples

July 01, 2022
In this blog, Chakravorti discusses incentives to increase adoption and usage of digital payments at micro, small, and medium retailers (MSMRs) globally. The blog discusses several findings from a recent World Bank study.
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What Problems Do CBDCs Solve?

February 23, 2022
In this blog, Chakravorti explores the role of retail central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and their impact on payments and banking, more fundamentally. CBDCs are digital representations of fiat currencies issued by central banks, but their existence may have wider implications than just for payments. Today, central banks around the...
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What Problems Do Stablecoins Solve?

December 21, 2021
In this blog, Chakravorti discusses the roles for stablecoins and their ability to increase the use of cryptocurrencies for both payments and DeFi applications. He also discusses different ways to regulate stablecoins to maintain financial stability while not stifling innovative solutions geared toward achieving greater financial inclusion.
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My Reflections on Money 20/20

November 01, 2019
Although Anil Aggarwal had personally invited me back in 2012 to Money20/20, I only made it to the conference this year. Catching up with attendees after past conferences, I always regretted not going. This year’s event had a large and diverse set of speakers and exhibitors making it difficult to...
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Global Money: Facebook's Libra?

June 28, 2019
Generally, cross-border fund transfers occur over proprietary platforms requiring multiple intermediaries including banks. How do we provide payment mechanisms to the greater than 1.7 billion people without access to bank-intermediated financial services at a lower cost globally? Facebook announced last week that its new global currency, Libra, will address this...
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Disrupting Payments: The Incumbents' Response

June 06, 2019
Advancements in computing and mobile technologies have provided the impetus to create new payment mechanisms. Furthermore, non-bank providers, e.g. Venmo and WeChat Pay, social media WeChat’s payments arm, play an increasing role in the provision of payments that has traditionally been the domain of banks. For example, Visa, MasterCard, American...
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What Is Being Disrupted by Initial Coin Offerings?

October 04, 2018
Initial coin offerings (ICOs) have the potential to dramatically change how firms raise funds enabling less costly, more transparent, more accessible, and faster access to capital. The total amount of funds raised by ICOs was over $5.6 billion in 2017. However, in 2018, the market capitalization has fallen from $57...
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Cryptocurrency as a Disruptor: Reality or Fiction?

December 18, 2017
Recent headlines like: “ Bitcoin Mania: Even Grandma Wants In on the Action” and “ When Grandma and Grandpa Join the Frenzy, You Know Bitcoin Is Turning into a Bubble,” suggest that bitcoin has become part of the common man’s conversation. Recently, the value of bitcoin eclipsed $19,000 after starting...
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FinTechs, Incumbents, and the Future

October 16, 2017
FinTech or financial technology has become an industry of great interest for investors, financial service professionals, consumers, businesses, and policymakers. From 2012 to 2017 Q2, VC-backed FinTech firms raised $50 billion globally (see CB Insights). Additionally, several central banks and international agencies have formed working groups with FinTech leaders or...
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