Ram Rastogi. Indian influencer. 13/36.

Ram Rastogi, a digital payments pioneer from India. Ram started his payments career in 1980 with India’s largest bank, State Bank of India https://www.onlinesbi.com/, which was a founding partner in National Payments Corporation Of India (NPCI) https://www.npci.org.in/, where Ram worked with product management and instant payment services for 10 years. Now he is a senior consultant working with multiple organizations in the Indian market as well as internationally. Ram recognized the great potential of Crunchfish’s two-tier settlement architecture, offline vs. online, very early and was willing to put his good name behind our solution and describe it to his 47 000 LinkedIn followers. He is an important influencer providing frequent and insightful news about the fast-moving payments market in India.

Here are two links from Ram’s newsletter and LinkedIn posts that was discussed in the interview. First a link where Ram’s promotes Crunchfish two-tier settlement architecture: https://bit.ly/3nzBmF6 , followed by a post where VISA experiments with very much the same architecture for Central Bank Digital Currency, CBDC as we promote. https://bit.ly/2K3E0p7

This is interview 13 of 36 in the second season – Cash goes digital, a payment pandemic. https://lnkd.in/e5RHAYD