Reflections From Gnani.ai, Comviva, IDEMIA Secure Transactions At GFF26
There is no option but to be at the Global Fintech Fest every year, and it has been a great experience this year as well.
Ganesh Gopalan, Co-Founder & CEO, Gnani.ai
FinTech BizNews Service
Mumbai, 11 September, 2026: The 3 industry leaders reflect upon their engagements and experiences at the Global Fintech Fest 2026, held at Jio World Centre in Mumbai:
Sanjiv Patankar, Head - Fintech Product Unit, Comviva, Ganesh Gopalan, Co-Founder & CEO, Gnani.ai and Romain Zanolo , Senior Vice President - Payment Services, APAC & India, IDEMIA Secure Transactions:
Sanjiv Patankar, Head - Fintech Product Unit, Comviva , "The Prime Minister’s call to take UPI global reflects a larger shift in how payment infrastructure is being built and scaled. At Comviva, we have seen first-hand how interoperable digital payment platforms can reduce friction, improve access and bring more people and businesses into the formal financial system, especially across emerging markets.
UPI has shown that payment infrastructure built at population scale can also become a strong reference point for other markets. More importantly, India has demonstrated that it can build its own payment rails, protocols and standards rather than depend entirely on models designed elsewhere. For platforms like ours, the next step is to evolve just as quickly. That means stronger real-time intelligence, smarter transaction orchestration, greater use of agentic AI in decisioning and exception handling, and more personalised financial services. Tokenisation will also have an increasingly important role in reducing the exposure of sensitive credentials and strengthening transaction security. India’s fintech playbook, adapted to local market and regulatory realities and taken globally through technology partners, can help shape the next generation of digital payments."
Ganesh Gopalan, Co-Founder & CEO, Gnani.ai “There is no option but to be at the Global Fintech Fest every year, and it has been a great experience this year as well. It was wonderful to reconnect with many of our existing customers and engage with new prospects. It was equally exciting to showcase our latest technologies, including Gnani Evon v3.3, a 30-billion-parameter large language model that is open-source and open-weights, and trained natively across 11 Indian languages. The response from customers has been extremely encouraging around this new model, as well as our fundamental offerings.”
Romain Zanolo , Senior Vice President - Payment Services, APAC & India, IDEMIA Secure Transactions “GFF 2026 brings Agentic AI, tokenisation and quantum together under one theme, and what connects them is simple: as financial systems get smarter and more connected, security has to keep pace. India has built one of the most advanced payment ecosystems in the world, and it shows in how seriously the industry is now treating the security side of that growth, echoing PM Modi's call to turn technological possibilities into real impact while keeping cybersecurity top-notch. In payments, where every transaction is woven into people's everyday lives, trust and security can't be an afterthought. They have to be foundational. For IDEMIA Secure Transactions, our role goes beyond keeping security a step ahead of innovation. We also help issuers bring that innovation to life in ways that drive everyday engagement, keeping a card top of wallet independently of its format, physical or digital, without ever compromising on trust.
From the credentials people use every day to the infrastructure that will eventually need to handle the quantum era, that balance between innovation and security is what will define the next phase of payments. Quantum Day cannot become an emergency the industry scrambles to respond to. The real opportunity is to start now, build crypto-agility into the system, and make sure the whole transition stays invisible to the people actually using it."
