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Apple is targeting an October 2026 India launch for Apple Pay with Axis Bank credit cards on Visa and Mastercard. UPI is not part of the first rollout as Apple enters one of its last major missing markets.
Xflow launched India Collections on 10 September 2026 — Stripe and PayPal-backed fintech lets global businesses accept UPI, cards, and net banking from India without a local entity.
Meta launched Muse on 8 September 2026 — a personal AI agent for email, calendar, and payments, running in a dedicated Linux VM per user, at free, $20, and $100 monthly tiers.
NPCI launched UPI Tap & Pay for offline NFC contactless payments and MyUPI, a unified AI-powered transaction view, at GFF 2026 on 10 September 2026.
NPCI launched AiNxt and AtOM at GFF 2026 Mumbai on 10 September — an open-source agentic AI suite and UPI orchestration layer to automate India's payments workflows and compliance.
From 4 September 2026, NPCI requires all UPI apps including Google Pay, PhonePe, and Paytm to mask mobile numbers, showing only the last four digits — driven by DPDP Act compliance and user safety.
Slice raised $100M on 4 September 2026 at a $450M valuation — 70% below its 2021 peak — after Slice Small Finance Bank posted Rs 48.4 crore net profit in FY26 vs a Rs 217 crore loss in FY25.
Cashfree Payments launched Relay on 30 August 2026, an AI Super Agent cutting SMB payment operations from 60 hours a week to under 45 minutes, using plain-language setup.
UPI turned 10 on 25 August 2026, having grown from 1.78 crore to 24,162 crore annual transactions — a 13,000-fold increase — while processing 49% of global real-time payments.
Sachin Bansal's Navi raised $100 million from Prosus on 19 August 2026 — its first external funding in eight years, valuing the all-in-one fintech platform at approximately $1.3 billion ahead of an IPO.
Razorpay launched Vulcan on 18 August 2026, India's first AI payments foundation model trained on 4 billion transactions for 8x fraud detection improvement and smarter payment routing.
India amended its payments law in August 2026 to allow UPI merchant fees for the first time since 2020, affecting a system processing 241.6 billion annual transactions worth roughly ₹314 lakh crore.
PB Fintech reported Q1 FY27 results on 5 August 2026 with PAT up 92% to Rs 163 crore and revenue rising 40% to Rs 1,888 crore, led by 59% health insurance premium growth.
In July 2026, India and Spain agreed to advance technical talks on linking UPI with Bizum, Spain's 30-million-user payment platform, as UPI's international footprint reached nine countries.
Zaggle's board approved investing up to INR 7.97 crore for a 19.9% stake in cross-border payments firm Unobanc on 21 July 2026, targeting the company's RBI AD-II licence pipeline.
India and Spain agreed on 20 July 2026 to fast-track UPI-Bizum interoperability talks, enabling cross-border digital payments for Indian travellers and businesses in Spain.
India's fintech sector raised $2 billion in H1 2026 across 106 rounds, up 42% from H1 2025, led by CRED's $900M Series H. KreditBee and Square Yards became new unicorns.
Indian fintech raised $2 billion across 48 deals in Q2 2026, up 2.3x from Q1 and 80% year-on-year, with average deal size at a five-quarter record of $41.2 million.
Moneyview received SEBI's final observation on 29 June 2026, clearing its Rs 1,500 crore fresh issue IPO. Revenue hit Rs 2,339 crore in FY25 with Rs 240 crore profit.
Mynd Fintech acquired C2FO India on 3 July 2026, targeting Rs 60,000 crore in annual transactions across TReDS, dynamic discounting, and working capital for 200,000 Indian suppliers.
NPCI CEO Dilip Asbe said at Mumbai Tech Week 2026 that AI will drive UPI toward one billion daily transactions via voice payments in regional languages, fraud detection, and FIMI dispute resolution.
PayU launched Builder MCP and PayU CLI in late June 2026, connecting Cursor, VS Code, and Claude Desktop to PayU APIs to generate payment code in 7-plus languages and manage operations from the terminal.
Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal launched UPI at Galeries Lafayette Nice on 16 June 2026, with Paris and Nice airports next. UPI now accepts payments in nine countries worldwide.
Razorpay confidentially filed its DRHP with SEBI on 12 June 2026, targeting a ₹6,000 crore IPO. Here's what this milestone means for India's fintech ecosystem and builders.
UPI just shattered its own record with 23.2 billion transactions worth ₹29.9 trillion in May 2026 — and the implications for every founder building in India are profound.
UPI processed 228 billion transactions in 2025. Here's how to build on top of India's most powerful digital payments infrastructure.