RBI to set up 'Innovation Hub' to deepen financial inclusion, promote efficient banking services

07 Aug 2020 Evaluate

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will be setting up an 'Innovation Hub' in India for ideation and incubation of new capabilities which can be leveraged to deepen financial inclusion and promote efficient banking services. The new Innovation Hub will support, promote and handhold cross-thinking spanning regulatory remits and national boundaries.

The Hub will act as a centre for ideation and incubation of new capabilities which can be leveraged to create innovative and viable financial products and/or services to help achieve the wider objectives of deepening financial inclusion, efficient banking services, business continuity in times of emergency, and strengthening consumer protection, among others.

The central bank had earlier set up a regulatory sandbox framework in which solutions related to digital payments were invited. Six proposals were accepted under the sandbox, the pilot studies/trials of which have been delayed on account of the Covid-19 situation. Regulatory sandbox (RS) usually refers to live testing of new products or services in a controlled/test regulatory environment for which regulators may (or may not) permit certain relaxations for the limited purpose of testing.

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