Andy Mukherjee, Columnist

India Going Cashless Could Be a Model for the World

Companies from Facebook and Tencent to PayPal and Walmart have a keen interest in the outcome of this experiment.

June 5, 2019 at 11:00 PM UTC

Andy Mukherjee is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering industrial companies and financial services in Asia. Previously, he worked for Reuters, the Straits Times and Bloomberg News.

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India aims to curb cash – but this time it wants to do it properly.

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