New Delhi, July 7 -- To make fintech the prime vehicle for achieving financial inclusion, the Centre wants them to focus on developing solutions for offline payments, voice-based authorization tools, poor connectivity coverage systems, and cross-border payment facilities.

Financial services secretary M. Nagaraju, speaking at the CII's Financial Inclusion and Fintech Summit in New Delhi on 7 July, also asked them to innovate low-cost but effective cybersecurity and anti-hacking solutions and focus on tamper-proofing their financial apps.

".fintech will actually drive the financial inclusion that is a key driver of both economic development as well as poverty alleviation all over the world. In fact, seven out of 17 SDGs (sustainable devel...