Policy
India Routes $80 Billion of Welfare Through the Digital Rupee as Reserve Bank Pushes BRICS to Link Its CBDCs at the 2026 Summit
India's Reserve Bank has begun routing portions of the country's $80 billion welfare programme through the digital rupee in ten state-level pilots, while urging the federal government to put a BRICS-wide CBDC interoperability proposal on the agenda of the bloc's 2026 summit.
·Tom Chen