Overview

• Addressing the Global Fintech Fest in Mumbai, Prime Minister Narendra Modi framed AI as a tool for universal empowerment and urged a people‑centric design for financial services.
• Modi backed a global framework for ethical AI and promoted sharing India’s digital public infrastructure, including MOSIP, as a model for the Global South.
• UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer led a record 126‑company delegation, pledging investment and visa measures to deepen AI and fintech collaboration, with plans to grow a UK‑India fintech corridor and LSE–GIFT City ties.
• RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra pressed the sector to apply AI to strengthen Digital Public Infrastructure and to detect and prevent digital fraud in real time.
• India highlighted capacity building under its AI mission—high‑performance computing, Centres of Excellence, and skilling hubs—alongside UPI’s scale, which accounts for a large share of global real‑time transactions.