WEBVTT 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:03.000 it's been a pleasure at GFF 2023 this year. 00:00:03.000 --> 00:00:04.760 It's been a bundle of energy. 00:00:04.760 --> 00:00:07.720 I've witnessed so many diverse set of fintechs come together 00:00:07.720 --> 00:00:12.080 on conversations on payments, which is a space that I really love talking about. 00:00:12.160 --> 00:00:15.320 India has been at the cutting edge of disruptive transactions 00:00:15.320 --> 00:00:16.800 and digital transactions. 00:00:16.800 --> 00:00:19.800 UPI leading the way with 10 billion transactions a month, 00:00:19.800 --> 00:00:23.080 Dilip yesterday talking about it going to 100 billion transactions a month. 00:00:23.160 --> 00:00:24.720 That's digital scale. 00:00:24.720 --> 00:00:27.520 That's nowhere else in the world that we're talking about. 00:00:27.520 --> 00:00:31.120 This is just payments that's done, all of this transformative effort. 00:00:31.200 --> 00:00:34.720 As we look at the infrastructure world, the DPI World of India 00:00:34.800 --> 00:00:38.320 NPCI has already taken a lead on UPI type of transactions. 00:00:38.320 --> 00:00:39.800 There's more coming on CBDC, 00:00:39.800 --> 00:00:43.800 there's more coming on conversational payments, and a lot more extend this 00:00:43.880 --> 00:00:46.680 to what an OCEN can do, what an ONDC can do. 00:00:46.680 --> 00:00:50.160 The power of digital transactions is just immense. 00:00:50.240 --> 00:00:54.880 Imagine a world where we're just not doing payments but getting credit, doing wealth, 00:00:54.960 --> 00:00:58.560 doing insurance, everything on these digital platforms. 00:00:58.640 --> 00:01:00.200 That's where India is going. 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:06.440 And this festival today proves to me that the energy, the drive of the founding 00:01:06.440 --> 00:01:10.280 ecosystem here, the private innovation on public infrastructure, 00:01:10.280 --> 00:01:14.400 which is the plank that India has created, is just the beginning of the journey. 00:01:14.480 --> 00:01:17.480 And as we look at what we're talking about in the G20 summit, 00:01:17.480 --> 00:01:19.480 exporting this to other countries, 00:01:19.480 --> 00:01:22.080 Imagine the scale when this becomes really global. 00:01:22.080 --> 00:01:24.480 I think true to its name, the Global FinTech Festival 00:01:24.480 --> 00:01:27.840 is going to take India’s fintech ecosystem to the global superpower. 00:01:27.920 --> 00:01:28.960 I'm really excited 00:01:28.960 --> 00:01:33.120 to be part of this journey and to be working in shaping this journey 00:01:33.120 --> 00:01:33.880 That India is taking.