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Anoushaka Chandrashekar and Fabrizio Valenti pen this final installment in the three-part blog series – \u2018Beyond Health: How the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting financial services in India\u2019. Based on discussions with founders of two fintech companies, this piece looks at implications of the COVID crisis on fintechs in India. 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