Hyderabad, Sept. 12 -- The International Institute of Information Technology-Hyderabad (IIIT-Hyderabad) on Saturday marked the release of "Cashless Nation: How UPI Changed Everything", authored by Dr Santanu Paul and B. Sambamurthy, tracing the evolution of the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and India's emergence as a digital payments powerhouse.
Published by Penguin Random House, the book was released in the presence of former Reserve Bank of India Governor Dr D. Subbarao, G.V. Prasad, Srini Raju and U.B. Desai.
The book presents a multi-decade account of the development of India's digital payments ecosystem and looks at the personalities, institutional decisions, technological innovations and implementation efforts that contributed to...