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The seventh edition of the Global Fintech Fest will be held from 8 to 11 September 2026 at the Jio World Centre and Trident BKC in Mumbai.
The theme of the 2026 edition is 'Potential to Impact', with a focus on trusted, connected and global systems for inclusive finance.
It is jointly organised by the Payments Council of India, the National Payments Corporation of India and the Fintech Convergence Council.
Agentic AI, tokenisation and quantum technologies are the three areas singled out for emphasis at this edition.
The event is supported by MeitY, the Department of Financial Services, the MEA's NEST Division, NITI Aayog, the RBI, SEBI, IFSCA and PFRDA.
Umbrella organisation for retail payments and settlement systems in India; operates UPI, RuPay, IMPS, NACH, BHIM, AePS and National Electronic Toll Collection. Set up in 2008 as a not-for-profit company at the initiative of the RBI and the Indian Banks' Association
Central bank and regulator of payment and settlement systems under the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007
Statutory regulator of the securities market under the SEBI Act, 1992
Unified regulator for financial products, services and institutions in India's International Financial Services Centres, established in 2020
Statutory regulator of the National Pension System and the Atal Pension Yojana
Agentic AI refers to artificial intelligence systems that can plan and carry out a sequence of tasks with a degree of autonomy in order to reach a defined objective, rather than answering one prompt at a time. In finance it is being applied to workflow automation, customer service, fraud detection and continuous risk monitoring. Tokenisation is the representation of an asset or a payment credential as a digital token on a ledger - it both protects card details in a payment and, in its wider form, allows financial assets to be issued and settled digitally. Quantum matters in two directions at once: quantum computing threatens the cryptography that secures today's financial messaging, and quantum-safe cryptography is the defence being built in response.
Simple Analogy: A chatbot answers a question. An agentic system is handed the goal and comes back when the errand is done.
NPCI's flagship product and the backbone of India's retail digital payments story that the fest showcases.
IFSCA, headquartered at GIFT City, Gandhinagar, is the unified regulator for India's International Financial Services Centres and one of the supporting regulators.
The RBI's tokenisation requirement replaced stored card numbers with tokens, an early Indian application of the technology now discussed at scale.
The statute under which the RBI regulates payment systems, including those operated by NPCI.
General Awareness > Banking and financial institutions, payment systems, regulators
GS Paper 3 > Indian Economy > Financial inclusion and digital payments
General Awareness > Current Affairs > Summits and conferences
General Awareness > Current Affairs
Consider the following statements: 1. National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) helps in promoting the financial inclusion in the country. 2. NPCI has launched RuPay, a card payment scheme. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Answer: Both 1 and 2
AI systems that plan and execute a sequence of tasks with a degree of autonomy to achieve a defined objective.
Replacing a sensitive credential or an asset with a digital token that stands in for it, used both to secure card payments and to represent assets digitally.
An industry body, and one of the three co-organisers of the Global Fintech Fest.
The New, Emerging and Strategic Technology division of the Ministry of External Affairs, which handles technology diplomacy.