Indian payments chief thinks AI will be heavily involved in next era of digital payment growth | TechCrunch

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India’s payments infrastructure is moving toward its next growth phase, and AI is expected to play a major role in onboarding, fraud detection, and credit distribution. NPCI wants UPI to scale past 1 billion daily transactions while improving multilingual and voice-based access for new users. The article also highlights emerging work on agentic commerce, user consent controls, and small language models built for India’s financial ecosystem. Competition among UPI apps remains intense, with regulators still trying to limit concentration and encourage more viable business models. For vendors and fintech partners, the story points to rising interest in AI, fraud prevention, payments orchestration, and compliance tooling.

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