Arunjay Katakam
Arunjay Katakam
Digital Finance Advisor, Migration and Remittances, UNCDF
Arunjay Katakam is a former EY consultant who has co-founded three startups, one of which eventually sold to Twitter. He works with the likes of the United Nations Capital Development Fund, the GSMA and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to increase financial inclusion through mobile money payments and digital public infrastructure. Arunjay mentored over 20 inclusive fintech startups with DFS Lab and was a venture builder with Catalyst Fund. He diligently advocates for a zero-fee customer payment model in his book, The Power of Micro Money Transfers.
An Open Regulated Global Payment Inter-Network
The infrastructure to achieve total interoperability already exists to a great extent but needs to be better harnessed. By creating an open regulated global payments inter-network, leveraging and cultivating existing infrastructure, any regulated service provider will be able to send money to anyone, anywhere in the inter-network, speeding up total interoperability, reducing the cost of transacti…