Theme: Sunday

Fintech Deep Dive — Sunday | October 11, 2026 Focus: Sunday — Weekly Review: the developments most likely to change how Indian fintech is funded, governed or experienced by customers. Coverage period: October 5–11, 2026 (seven calendar dates; reporting checked through 8:30 a.m. IST on October 11). Executive summary This week’s story is not “fintech grew” or “regulation tightened.” It is that the price and portability of financial services are being renegotiated at the same time. The RBI raised its policy rate and tightened parts of the currency-derivatives regime; it also promised customers more portable financial data. A new UPI merchant fee is still scheduled for October 15 despite reports of a possible delay. SEBI is pushing risk cues closer to retail investment screens, while two co-operative banks’ customers have discovered that insured deposits are not necessarily accessible deposits. The common test: do official rules produce clear choices and remedies, or just more infrastructure and notices? ...

Fintech Deep Dive — Sunday | October 04, 2026 Focus: Sunday — Weekly Review: the most consequential Indian fintech and digital-finance developments. Coverage period: September 28–October 4, 2026 (seven calendar dates; reporting checked through 8:37 a.m. IST on October 4). Executive summary The week’s strongest signal was that financial access is scaling faster than the institutions that must make it fair and recoverable. The Supreme Court let the October 15 UPI merchant-discount framework proceed for now, while asking the government to explain its legal character; trader groups split over protest, and consumer survey respondents said they would switch payment methods if merchants passed the cost on. Separately, the RBI reportedly pressed banks to fix recurring complaint causes, while a newly analysed policing survey shows how sharply cybercrime victims’ confidence falls between reporting a crime and seeing it investigated. NBFCs now originate half of first-time borrowers’ loans, and public-market and funding figures show capital still flowing—but concentrated outside fintech. ...

Fintech Deep Dive — Sunday | September 27, 2026 Weekly review edition. The week of September 20–27 was the week India’s financial plumbing got a price. A merchant fee returned to UPI after six free years and traders responded by covering QR codes in black cloth. The National Stock Exchange — the venue that prices everything else — finally got its own market price after a decade’s wait. IRDAI proposed putting a hard price ceiling on insurance distribution, and the market answered within 24 hours by erasing over a third of Policybazaar’s parent. A three-day bank strike starting Monday will test which rails keep money moving when branches go dark. And venture capital, reading the same rule changes, tripled its weekly deployment to $188 million. Here are the week’s five defining stories, and what the consumer should take from each. ...

Fintech Deep Dive — Sunday | September 20, 2026 The week Indian fintech stopped debating and started doing Sunday is review day, and the week of September 13–20 deserves a proper accounting. This was the seven days in which the arguments of the past year became executed decisions: the government and NPCI finally put a price on UPI’s biggest transactions — and were sued and picketed within 72 hours; SEBI and the RBI moved the first ₹1,025 crore of India’s $620 billion corporate bond market onto blockchains settled in digital rupee; the Supreme Court told the RBI its borrower-protection rules “exist only on paper” and ordered genuine enforcement; a fintech bank repriced itself 70% below its peak and the market barely flinched; and the Global Fintech Fest afterglow produced the two announcements with the longest fuses — a Zelle–UPI bridge and agentic-AI platforms inside the payment switch itself. Five stories defined the week. Here they are, with the thread that connects them. ...

Fintech Deep Dive — Sunday | September 13, 2026 If Indian fintech has a resting heartbeat, it was audible in Mumbai this week. The seventh Global Fintech Fest (September 8–11, Jio World Centre) pulled in over 8,000 institutions, 5,000 startups and 1,200 speakers across 450 sessions, with more than 200 product launches packed into four days. GFF didn’t just dominate the news cycle — it was the news cycle. Nearly every story below was launched, deferred, or licensed on its stage. Here is the weekly review, with the spin filtered out. ...

Fintech Deep Dive — Sunday | September 06, 2026 Five days from now, Mumbai hosts the Global Fintech Fest, and this week was the warm-up act: nearly every significant development between August 30 and September 6 reads like a preview of the announcements due September 8–11. NPCI’s plans for AI agents that pay on your behalf firmed up in detail. WhatsApp switched on bill payments for half a billion users, three days before the fest opens. UPI crossed 24 billion transactions in a month for the first time, days after its tenth birthday. And away from the rails, India’s largest private bank staged the week’s most uncomfortable governance drama while its insurer-distribution cousins consolidated. Here are the five stories that mattered, with the consumer-interest read on each. ...

Fintech Deep Dive — Sunday | August 31, 2026 This week was one of the most eventful in recent Indian fintech memory. From the UPI completing a decade and Parliament quietly repealing its zero-MDR mandate, to Bank of America committing $1.9 billion to Jio Credit and SEBI clearing Jio Platforms’ record IPO — the signals point to a maturing ecosystem where capital, policy, and technology are converging simultaneously. Here are the five stories that defined the week. ...

Fintech Deep Dive — Sunday | August 30, 2026 This Week in Indian Fintech: August 23–30, 2026 A decade of UPI, a $100 million bet on Navi’s IPO ambitions, the legislative dismantling of zero-MDR, and the closing of fintech’s regulatory arbitrage window — it’s been a defining week. 1. UPI Turns 10: The Numbers Are Staggering, But the Hard Questions Start Now On August 25, the Unified Payments Interface completed a decade since launch. The scale is genuinely unprecedented: annual transaction volume surged from 1.78 crore in 2016-17 to over 24,162 crore in FY26 — a nearly 13,000-fold increase. In July 2026 alone, UPI processed 2,366 crore transactions worth ₹29.9 lakh crore. Seven hundred and forty-one banks are now live on the network, and UPI operates in 11 countries. ...

Fintech Deep Dive — Sunday | August 23, 2026 The Week That Was: Consumer Rights Move Centre-Stage as India’s Digital Fraud Crisis Deepens This week belonged to the consumer. From a landmark Supreme Court order tightening the screws on digital arrest scam responses, to the RBI’s sweeping discussion paper on payment fraud safeguards, to a Nagpur woman winning back every rupee from a FedEx parcel scam — the system is being forced to confront an uncomfortable truth: speed without safety is a liability, not an asset. ...

Fintech Deep Dive — Sunday | August 16, 2026 This week was a landmark one for Indian fintech. From the largest-ever foreign direct investment in an Indian digital lending platform to Parliament opening the door on UPI charges, from a mega venture fund signalling renewed investor confidence to UPI smashing yet another record on its way to a decade of existence — here are the five stories that defined the week. ...