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Reliance's cheap JioPhone can unleash a credit revolution across the globe

A small band of policy influencers may unlock the next big prize for banks: the billions who operate outside the formal finance sector.

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Reliance chairman Mukesh Ambani announces the launch of Jio's 5G network at a company conference in June 2021. (File photo.)

Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg Opinion
A smartphone widely believed to be priced below $50, likely the world’s cheapest, will start selling a week from now. If Mukesh Ambani’s JioPhone Next, an Android device custom-built for India by Alphabet Inc.’s Google, is a hit in the price-conscious market, it will solve one problem for banks while posing another. With the country’s remaining 300 million feature-phone users going online, there will be a surge of customer data that can stand in for collateral. The question is, how will banks get their hands on it?

An answer has come from iSPIRT, a small band of policy influencers quietly setting

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