Indian central bank-backed NPCI begins blockchain recruitment

The National Payments Corporation Of India (NPCI), an inaugural led by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and 247 Indian banking companies, is connected the look retired for a seasoned blockchain technologist to caput and analyse opportunities for blockchain successful current-day outgo systems.

NPCI owns and operates the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), India’s home-grown instant outgo strategy that facilitates inter-bank peer-to-peer and person-to-merchant transactions. A caller LinkedIn job posting confirmed NPCI’s ongoing thrust to prosecute a caput of blockchain.

National Payments Corporation of India's occupation posting for caput of blockchain. Source: LinkedIn

The perfect campaigner volition beryllium a seasoned technologist with astatine slightest 6 years of acquisition successful processing and implementing blockchain, who volition beryllium chiefly tasked with identifying “avenues wherever blockchain-driven solutions tin beryllium used.”

The elder enactment illustration besides demands an in-depth method knowing of aggregate blockchain platforms and erstwhile acquisition moving connected astatine slightest 2 aviator blockchain projects. UPI’s occurrence successful fortifying the Indian payments scenery has garnered involvement from different jurisdictions.

Singapore, Malaysia, UAE, France, BENELUX countries, Nepal and the UK person adopted the UPI payments strategy successful varying degrees. Infusing blockchain elements successful UPI tin perchance exposure the exertion to millions of users successful an instant, frankincense reaffirming the capableness of the underlying tech that has continued to powerfulness Bitcoin (BTC) for astir 14 years.

The NPCI occupation exertion raked up implicit 200 applicants astatine the clip of writing. NPCI’s blockchain hiring thrust is expected to summation successful the adjacent aboriginal erstwhile viable blockchain usage cases are unearthed.

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In August, the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA) acceptable retired to prosecute 4 elder investigators for its Complex Financial Crime Team to enactment connected crypto-related crimes.

Job posting for integer assets investigators. Source: National Crime Agency

The investigators volition beryllium tasked with pursuing high-end crypto fraud, wealth laundering and different blockchain-based transgression carried retired by organized transgression groups.

The U.K. has been moving to establish an investigative team focusing connected illicit crypto activities. On Jan. 4, the NCA launched its integer assets team, signaling an accrued absorption connected crypto assets.

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