Powering the Next Wave of Financial Innovation

The 7th Global Fintech Fest in September, 2026 is more than just a conference. It’s the world’s largest fintech festival, bringing together the sharpest minds to chart out a better future powered by AI. Inspiring, innovative, invigorating, the GFF journey is a commitment to shared prosperity and growth opportunities.

The Global Fintech Fest (GFF) reflects India’s growing role as a global fintech hub and convener, sharing lessons from its own digital public infrastructure journey while learning from international best practices. The platform positions India as a partner to both developed and emerging economies, including the Global South, in shaping the next generation of global financial systems through collaboration, innovation, and responsible fintech leadership.

Who Should Apply

• Early-stage, seed, or Pre-Series A startups.
• Startups with measurable traction and growth.
• Compelling AI use-cases in core products.
• Scalable business models and market opportunity.

Theme of GFF 2026

• Agentic AI: Autonomous orchestration of complex financial workflows, personalized services at scale, and continuous risk monitoring with minimal human intervention.
• Tokenisation: Making every asset - public, private, physical, or digital - programmable, divisible, and instantly transferable on global infrastructure.
• Quantum: Redefining security, optimization, and computation at a foundational level, unlocking exponential processing capabilities.