Young folks in India are happy working from their native home & saving cost of rent and getting home food.
This is a fantastic short term benefit but the cost of this is very high.
Learning being around smarter folks & absorption by osmosis and overhearing has reduced to zero.
#PSA
The moment we've all been waiting for is here 🙌 India's account aggregator framework is live with a small set of beta users 🎉 This is such a big milestone and will create an orbit shift for the India fintech ecosystem just like what UPI did to payments. 1/n
Good time to talk about digital public goods in India and what ONDC is all about:
ONDC stands for Open Network for Digital Commerce. It is a special purpose vehicle (SPV) setup as a not for profit company. The ownership structure is similar to NPCI 1/n
Just read about ONDC in India. Seems like as big a deal as UPI.
Building open protocols for e-commerce is an insanely good public good! Is it the first of its kind in the world?
Well done
@cimgoi
and
@ONDC_Official
If any of you want to test or see what APIs for BBPS, UPI, PAN, GST, Bank Verification, Digilocker, eSign, Account Aggregator looks like, go to right away. Test without writing a single line of code!
@Setu_API
@amrishrau
Hi folks, looking to connect with volunteer teams who are building tools to solve real time information about beds/oxygen cylinders/plasma et al.
Want to explore if we can consolidate efforts all in one place.
Can you please tag them here or share details or RT.
After battling cancer bravely for the last 7 months, Amma left us all to be in a better place last Friday. She was the spirit behind all of us - taught us how to be good, dream, live, give, aspire. Everything we are today is because of her!
Indian merchants are aspirational. They want this, plus that.
UPI QR spread quickly thru our country. Merchants wanted one device for UPI transaction confirmation and a separate POS to accept Cards. And both at super low prices
This day, exactly an year ago PM
@narendramodi
launched
@NPCI_BHIM
at Kalkatora Stadium, Delhi under the leadership of
@amitabhk87
! Its been a phenomenal year for India's Digital Payments movement since then. 1/n
Excited to announce CRED mint. Our first community product built on trust. You can now earn up-to 9% interest, while investing in other trustworthy CRED members.
Announcing D91 Labs - an open source initiative to bring designers, engineers, product managers together to design better for India.
Read more about what we're doing and why we're doing this!
Super happy to announce our
@Setu_API
partnership with
@ICICIBank
to launch a next generation PFM module built on the power of Account Aggregator. We are just getting started to build the most powerful AA platform in the country 🚀
Super proud of the
Super excited and stoked to share our subsidiary - Agya Technologies has received an in-principle license for Account Aggregator.
We have been waiting sooooo long for this 🙌 1/n
Wow. Just got an Amazon Prime now order delivered by an auto driver at this time. Accepted UPI. Apparently lots of auto drivers now deliver. Just amazed about their utilisation, even though it sounds obvious. Mind blowing.
@karthikiyerks
Life update:
@Setu_API
is now part of the
@PineLabs
group. We are extremely grateful to everyone who has helped us build the company. We couldn't be here without the love and support of the ecosystem. 1/n
Today, we announced the acquisition of Setu, a company that has been consistently raising the bar on innovation in the world of payments and financial services. Fintech today is everywhere, and every company wants to be a fintech company
Sending a lot of strength to fintech founders and teams who are working tirelessly to migrate their accounts/ infra from Yes Bank. This storm too shall pass. Godspeed!
The Financial Revolution You Didn't Know You Needed: Account Aggregator
You may have caught Amitabh Bachchan discussing Account Aggregator (AA) on Kaun Banega Crorepati recently. It wasn't just talk; it is a financial revolution in the making.
The Problem:
Meet Priya, an
At times, we take so many things for granted. Fintech infrastructure in India is one such. As an ecosystem, we should be grateful to our banking fraternity for being so forward-looking and doing what is right for the citizen.
🚨 Watershed moment for Indian fintech
Account Aggregator ecosystem gets a boost as all PSU banks go live, bringing over 1 billion accounts on the AA framework.
@sahamati
@patwardhannn
✍
A lot of people keep asking, what are you upto nowadays?
Nothing much, just putting heads down and building with the amazing team
@Setu_API
to further our mission.
Super proud to present to you Sesame built with love with
@SarvamAI
🚀
Just launched at amazing event put
Thrilled to unveil Sesame by
@Setu_API
in collaboration with Sarvam 🚀 India's 1st domain-specific LLM for financial services. It’s set to redefine banking—offering personalized advice, multilingual onboarding, and AI-driven insights. A new era of inclusive finance begins today!
Many of Khata/Ledger apps have been reporting the value of transactions recorded on their apps. Ideally, one shouldn't have a god view of transactions of their customers especially if you're a SaaS company.
Setu AA Insights — UPI Data Unlocks New Frontiers in 'Credit on UPI'
As UPI transactions account for 80% of all activities on a bank statement today, understanding this data becomes essential for credit underwriting. Setu's Account Aggregator (AA) insights offer a specialized
Ha! India built UPI (Unified payments interface) inspired by SMTP almost 8 years ago.
@pramodkvarma
has used this example soooo many times. Here's a primer on how UPI works:
Imagine if you couldn’t send an email between Gmail and Yahoo! mail. This is the sad reality of payments in 2023. There is no SMTP for money. Lightning solves this and will bring interoperability between wallets, exchanges, and financial institutions. It’ll change everything.
Had a ball of a time talking at
@GitHubIndia
today! Most of us see how UPI works at the application level but not really know what happens behind the scenes. I have tried to break this down into few simple steps. Here's the link to the talk:
1/n
Folks, we can put the matter to rest now. Some of our previous tweets were in a very bad taste, things could've been handled in a way more better/wittier way, which was intended, but came out as rude, we're sorry - there's only a human behind this account afterall.
It's a defining moment for India Fintech. How we behave now - pull each other up or down will truly show who we we are as a community. I request all founders to restrain from any kind of guerilla marketing at this point!
Suddenly everybody has woken up on the AI madness. The kind of research community that's available in the US and the amount of research money spent in the last ten years by FAANG/OpenAI is some other level. We have already lost the plot.
We didn’t build a global Social Network or an Operating System or a Browser or Cloud Infra. Yet we are so offended by
@sama
’s statement.
I would love nothing more than Global Products and Companies being built out of India. But we have to also accept the reality. Founders and
Alright let's do this 🙈. Never shared this online before. We celebrate annual days at
@Setu_API
with a live music gig and once upon a time I got to do this with the amazing peeps at
@lagorimusic
People at
@zerodhaonline
were sharing videos on the internal forum on World Music Day. Some asked me to share my amateur attempt 😬 I had shared a video to highlight the importance of having some hobbies outside work.
My video was a tribute to my favorite singers, such as Latha
The thing is building is 1000X harder from just being an observer. A founder is always, by design, faking it to make it. Because somebody has to dare to dream. There's no one who can accurately paint a picture on what's going on at a high growth startup. There are always 1/n
There is a lot being said about Unacademy currently. To set the record straight, Unacademy will have its best year in terms of growth and profitability. We also have many years of runway. We are building Unacademy for the long run. Ignore the rumours.
Most used mobile payment apps in U.S.
Starbucks app: 25.7 million users
Apple Pay: 24.0 million users
Google Pay: 12.4 million users
Samsung Pay: 11.0 million users
Source: eMarketer
This is the beginning of innovation on Account Aggregator. One of the biggest problems we face as consumers is our ability to view and manage all our financial accounts in one place. So simple, yet to so hard. 1/n
So why is it a big deal?
There's a global movement around data to put end users in control of it. India's framework introduces the idea of a "consent manager" which is way ahead of other open banking initiatives. Yes, we are indeed pioneers when it comes to fintech. 3/n
Super excited to welcome
@PositiveGamma
to join our mission at Setu. We onboarded him remotely today, inspite of the lockdown, because that's how much we like him! 😝🤟🚀
Let's do the jolly sirs! 🕺
@PositiveGamma
@sahilkini
This is such a big milestone. Finally, we will be able to link and manage all our financial accounts in one place including Mutual Funds, Brokerage etc.
India's Open Banking framework of Account Aggregators has a new booster shot now 🚀
Nothing that has been published about
@rssharma3
is because of Aadhaar. Most of it all publicly available information and some desperate actions on it. In fact, it only goes on to show that mobile number is far far far more dangerous than anything else.
Tomorrow is a big day for the AA ecosystem. Read our series - Free your data to know everything about AA and much more:
Oh, also we have a new home for our content:
This is factually incorrect because-
1. Plaid is data rails, UPI is payment rails.
2. Plaid does screen scrapping, UPI is a protocol.
The list goes on......
We're hiring across functions at Setu as we gear up for our next phase of growth. 🚀
If you're interested to do something different in fintech in India, look up our open positions:
Great news for Paytm. The underlying magic here is the architecture of UPI. The addressing system is designed so well that
@paytm
by redirecting at the switch level will continue to work as is without impacting a single customer.
@pramodkvarma
Now, officially your Paytm UPI will work! We have received approval from
@NPCI_NPCI
to participate in UPI as a Third-Party Application Provider (TPAP) under multi-bank model
Read here:
#PSA
The moment we've all been waiting for is here 🙌 India's account aggregator framework is live with a small set of beta users 🎉 This is such a big milestone and will create an orbit shift for the India fintech ecosystem just like what UPI did to payments. 1/n
Super excited to be hiring our next set of growth engineers at Setu. We are looking for a kickass full-stack engineer to join our backend team and a developer relations engineer for our growth team. Apply here:
Please RT/share for good karma 🙏
Managed to catch the evasive
#NeelaKurinji
flower in Chickamagalur.
The flower blooms once every 12 years and is such a beautiful sight. Do read more about it here:
A lot of people lost their near & dear ones during this pandemic. I lost one such dear friend
@shaktigoap
! I met him back in 2015 and the love for the developer community brought us together. InOut was one such event -
I am looking to hire our first VP-Product at
@Setu_API
! We are building one of the most exciting infrastructure companies in the world spanning across - UPI, BBPS, OCEN, Account Aggregator, ONDC, FDs , Identity & Verification. 1/n
#WeDidIt
. Cashfree migrated >1 Million
@YESBANK
UPI IDs to
@ICICIBank
within 100 hours of the
@RBI
moratorium. Merchants can continue to use already deployed UPI IDs to receive payments. Great support from
@NPCI_NPCI
&
@ICICIBank
working round-the-clock to make this happen.
RBI announces interoperability guidelines for wallets using UPI. Whatte exciting! This creates a level playing field for so many many startups and will reduce the load on banking system significantly.
Account aggregator is an RBI initiative to enable end users to get access to their financial data from any application of their choice. Just like how UPI enabled access to money from 3rd party apps, AA does the same for data. 2/n
That was quite a break and I hope you all are keeping well ❤️🙌🏽 I'm only hear to say, we're hiring across multiple roles at including folks in product. Do refer and share 🙏🚀
Had a lovely time testing Account Aggregator flows with my colleague Vivek in the hinterlands. Doing a field visit after many years felt so energising. We got some fascinating insights from users and will use them to build the best UX for AA!
@sahamati
1/n
I'm looking for a really good consumer product manager/lead and an engineering lead for backend+mobile.
Working on a super interesting mix of payments/credit/commerce at
@PineLabs
. Any prior experience of UPI will be super helpful. If you know anyone please
It fascinates me that how Paytm gets away bullshitting media about their numbers everytime. Would love to know if there *is* anyone there who has verified these claims about 12M merchants accepting BHIM UPI!