Landed in Mumbai. ✈️
Heading to @IIMAVentures today for a conversation on fintech partnerships.
Curious what actually makes bank × fintech partnerships work in India.
#GFF2026
Bikesh Kumar
Founder Notes
Fintech
Payments, lending, insurance and banking, and the rules the companies building them work under.
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Bikesh Kumar
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Posted before the speech, and it turned out to be right. The three pillars were named from the stage and crypto was not among them, which for an industry that spent the previous week in the news is the absence worth noticing.
Satyam
Three words open Global Fintech Fest in Mumbai today: agentic AI, tokenisation, quantum. Crypto is not one of them.
PM Modi addresses it, RBI Governor and SEBI Chairman speak. Indian crypto spent all of last week on two of those three.
#WazirX #GFF2026 #CryptoIndia
https://www.ciol.com/news/pm-modi-global-fintech-fest-2026-agentic-ai-tokenisation-12404876 -
Vivek is building JoinUp
GFF(global fintech fest) the largest annual conference is happening in Mumbai.
People will be flying in from different cities and what good is it if there is no meetup where people sit & talk
If you want to connect with people for real, be in this room https://joinup.co.in/event/AVVy60o90f
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Tushar | Vaani AI Research
If you’re heading to Mumbai for @GffFintechfest and already figuring out what to do after the first hectic day.. then we might have a good plan for you 👀
We’re hosting an intimate Leadership Dinner in BKC on 8th September, bringing together CXOs, founders, VCs, HNIs, bankers, and corporates for an evening with Good Food, Drinks and Interesting Conversations.
📍 BKC, Mumbai (location will be shared post RSVP)
📅 8th September | 7 PM onwards
🤝 Invite-onlyIf you’re going to GFF and this sounds like your kind of evening, RSVP so we can plan better.
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Written for people who do not know what GFF is, which on a page like this is worth having near the top.
DashX | Payments
This week Mumbai hosts Global Fintech Fest, the biggest yearly meetup for banks, regulators and fintech builders in India 🇮🇳
our cofounder @vedantutage03 is there for it as DashX builds the stablecoin rails for Indian businesses to get paid from anywhere and settle straight into INR
If that's your world too, reply or DM and let’s catch up
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A list of nine side events, compiled by an attendee rather than by the organisers. It is the most useful single post of Day 1 for anyone actually going.
Bhavyam Arora
Just landed in Mumbai!
Will be here till 11th, attending #GFF2026
Btw, Here's the list of 9 interesting side events happening around:
8th Sept
1. The Trust Table by @DetectifAI
https://luma.com/jh91axzt2. Leadershipt Dinner by @Rishav96agarwal
https://luma.com/leadership-dinner-mumbai9th Sept
3. Fintech Sundowner by @lfdecentralized
https://luma.com/u9eclpg24. BFSI Leaders Soirêe
https://luma.com/jne49ges5. Fintech Happy Hour
https://luma.com/1kk6brsi10th Sept
6. Espresso & Agents by @nikkithashanker
https://luma.com/7bgzq9c37. Bharat Inclusion Sprint by @IIMAVentures
https://luma.com/etv81y928. No KYC Required
https://luma.com/e2g1t4ei12th Spet
9. Incentiv Interact - Game Day
https://luma.com/7z0clf8oSee you all around
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Tokenisation is the second of the three pillars, and this is a custody company saying digital assets are now part of the mainstream fintech conversation rather than beside it.
Liminal Custody
India's fintech industry converges on Mumbai this week, and digital assets are now a real part of that conversation.
Team Liminal is attending Global Fintech Fest 2026.
Meet the team on the ground:
- @Garegrat , SVP, India and Global Partnerships
- Arnab Das, Director, Communications📅 8 to 11 September, 2026
📍 Jio World Center, MumbaiIf you are building on digital assets and want to talk about compliance, or scaling securely across the region, let's connect.
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Shweta Rajpal Kohli
🚨It’s fintech season. Team Startup Policy Forum will be in Mumbai this week hosting three high-impact engagements
📍Fintech Baithak: India’s leading founders talk to us about the future of fintech.
📍Fintech Table: An evening of conversations and connections, where we bring the startup ecosystem together over dinner.
📍Markets & Macros Baatcheet with Ridham Desai, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley. In a week when IPOs are back in action, a closed-knit group of founders sits down to talk GDP, the rupee, FPI flows, IPOs, and the future of new-age listed companies.
All three are invite-only, closed-door sessions, open only to SPF members and guests.
Interested in attending? Reach out to us.
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Three years of going, and an account of how the event itself has changed over them.
Rishav Agarwal | Picxele
@GffFintechfest begins tomorrow, and it grows bigger and broader every year.
But for the first time in the 3 years I've attended the GFF, as I attend for the 4th time, I wanted to start with something to bring the Leaders together.
Hosting a Leadership Dinner tomorrow at 7 PM in BKC, Mumbai, and it's an invite-only dinner for CXOs, VCs, bankers, and Senior Leaders from Corporates.
Thanks to @VaaniHQ and @TransBnkIndia for co-hosting and partnering with me on such short notice.
RSVP Here: https://luma.com/leadership-dinner-mumbai
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Nikhil Pahwa founded MediaNama, which reports on India's technology policy, and he is arriving with an agent of his own rather than a view on them. What he is opening his DMs for is what blocks agentic payments, which is the pillar arriving as something somebody is actually using rather than as a panel topic.
Nikhil Pahwa
In Mumbai this week for Global Fintech Festival, and Saki (my agent) and I are really excited about agentic payments.
DMs open: if you want to discuss what blocks agentic payments, and what people using agents are doing with them.
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"Some of the best GFF conversations won't happen at GFF." Said while announcing a side event, so read it with that in mind, but it is also the honest description of a week where 450 sessions compete with the corridor outside them.
SuperBryn
Some of the best GFF conversations won’t happen at GFF.
On Sept 10, we’re hosting Espresso & Agents with @revragai - an invite-only breakfast in BKC for CXOs & VPs across BFSI.
No panels. No pitches. Just coffee + real conversations on AI.
8-10:30 AM → https://luma.com/7bgzq9c3
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The fullest coming-in post in the set, and the one that best explains why people travel for this: not the stage, the corridor.
pranav/condur 🏄♂️
Friends - I'll be making the pilgrimage to GFF (@GFFFintechFest) this year!
In Mumbai starting Tuesday (Sept 8).
Would love to meet you - especially if you're building something in BFSI / FinTech, & wherever AI intersects the two.
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