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The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) — a project spearheaded by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) along with 247 Indian banking institutions — is seeking an experienced blockchain technologist to lead and explore opportunities for blockchain within contemporary payment systems.
NPCI manages the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), India’s indigenous instant payment system that enables interbank peer-to-peer and person-to-merchant transactions. A recent job listing on LinkedIn has confirmed NPCI’s ongoing initiative to recruit a head of blockchain.
NPCI’s job listing for a head of blockchain. Source: LinkedIn
The preferred candidate will be a skilled technologist with a minimum of six years of experience in the development and implementation of blockchain, primarily responsible for pinpointing “opportunities where blockchain-driven solutions can be applied.”
This senior leadership role also requires a comprehensive technical knowledge of various blockchain platforms and prior involvement in at least two pilot blockchain initiatives. The success of UPI in strengthening the Indian payments ecosystem has attracted attention from other regions.
Countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, the United Arab Emirates, France, the Benelux nations, Nepal, and the United Kingdom have adopted the UPI payment system to different extents. Integrating blockchain features into UPI could potentially introduce the technology to millions of users rapidly, thereby reaffirming the effectiveness of the underlying technology that has supported Bitcoin (BTC) for nearly 14 years.
At the time of writing, the NPCI job listing had received over 200 applications. NPCI’s recruitment efforts for blockchain expertise are anticipated to grow in the near future as practical blockchain use cases are discovered.
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In August, the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA) announced plans to hire four senior investigators for its Complex Financial Crime Team to address crypto-related offenses.
Job listing for digital assets investigators. Source: National Crime Agency
The investigators will focus on tackling sophisticated crypto fraud, money laundering, and other blockchain-related crimes perpetrated by organized crime syndicates.
The U.K. has been working to form an investigative team dedicated to illicit crypto activities. On January 4, the NCA established its digital assets team, indicating a heightened emphasis on crypto assets.
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