Overview
India touched 20.57 billion transactions via debit cards, credit cards, prepaid payment instruments such as mobile wallets, prepaid cards and UPI for the second quarter of 2022 with Rs 36.08 trillion in terms of value which were processed through various platforms. UPI overtook all other forms of payments at 34% in terms of volume at merchant transactions. With the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) releasing its Payments Vision document, the sector is positioned for further growth in the digital payment landscape in India.
The Payments Innovation Summit, will unravel the opportunities across the payments landscape in India. The event is an exclusive gathering of the top most financial experts, payments leaders, stakeholders from the BFSI sector who will deliberate on futuristic payments technologies & innovations, a growth strategy for the future of the sector and engage with peers and decision makers from across the ecosystem

Market Scenario

India’s card payments market is set to grow by 23.6% to reach INR26.9 trillion ($361.6 billion) in 2023
India’s card payments market is set to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18.7% between 2022 and 2026 to reach INR43.3 trillion ($581.1 billion) in 2026.
POS terminals activity increases, with the total number of terminals deployed by banks standing at 6.59 million in Sept 2022 a rise of 43% from a year-ago.
Indian prepaid card market likely to witness a compounded annual growth rate of 40.5%, between 2021 and 2026
Digital payments, will continue to see the strong growth of recent years, touching an estimated $153 billion in transaction value in 2023
Why Attend PIS 2023?
Connect with leading Industry stakeholders, influencing innovation in the Payments Industry in India
Hear about future focused topics and access the collective expertise of the entire Indian payment ecosystem
Hear about future focused topics and access the collective expertise of the entire Indian payment ecosystem Take advantage of opportunities to establish connections across India’s BFSI sector & Corporate India
Gain critical knowledge from leading industry thought leaders who will be delivering technology presentations and strategic keynotes
Dedicated platform for emerging payments innovators and key decision makers to collaborate
Understand the dynamics of India’s Card payments, prepaid payments, UPI, digital payments, remittances & POS sector

Why Sponsor PIS 2023?

Get an opportunity to connect with a niche audience who are influencing the payments ecosystem
Showcase your technology and products impacting the payments domain and collaborate with potential partners and clients
Access a focused and curated platform designed for start-ups and innovators disrupting the Indian payments Industry
Connect and build partnerships with your peers from the FinTech and PSPs sectors
Utilize the opportunity to brand yourself as a thought leader at India’s dedicated Payments Summit of the year
Gain Immediate access to decision makers from across SMEs, & other consumer intensive industries, who are seeking solutions
Key Topics Being Discussed
Digital Payments & Faster Payments
CBDC & Digital Currencies
Financial Inclusion & Payments Innovation
Payments As a Service, Micro Payments, Real Time Payments
Regulations, Compliance & Security
Retail Payments & Interoperability
Adopting ISO 20022

Attending Industries
Financial Institutions
Banks
NBFCs
Corporate & Consumer Sectors
(Retail, D2C, Ecommerce)
FinTech & PSPs
Consulting Companies
Government
Associations & Academia
Media

Attending
Job title
CEOs, MDs, COOs
Payments (Heads, VP, Director Etc.)
Treasury & Finance (Heads, VP, Director Etc.)
Product & Customer Management
(Heads, VP, Director Etc.)
Sales & Marketing (Heads, VP, Director Etc.)
Digital & Technology
(Heads, VP, SVP, CIO, Director Etc.)
Risk & Security (Heads, VP, Director Etc.)
Consultants/ Media Professionals
Event Speakers

Geetika Raheja
Executive Director / PwC India

Geetika Raheja
Executive Director
PwC India
Geetika Raheja is an Executive Director in the Financial Services Advisory practice at PwC India, with a special focus on banking and payments domain. She has over 14 years of consulting experience in advising clients in areas like strategy, market entry, payments digitization, process design, business planning, market assessment and vendor selection among others.
Her major clients include domestic and foreign banks, payment schemes, regulators, payments service providers and other financial services institutions. Some of her notable projects include assistance in deal advisory and post merger integration of one of largest POS deals in the country, pricing strategy for an Aadhaar based payments product, assistance in launch of credit card product for a large private sector bank among others. Geetika also has experience in advising clients on regulatory aspects including licenses for NUE, payments bank and PPI applications to RBI.
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Sunil Kulkarni
CEO / BCFI

Sunil Kulkarni
CEO
Business Correspondents Federation of India (BCFI)
Sunil is the CEO of Business Correspondents Federation of India (BCFI), a member institution
with over 60 Corporate BCs servicing 20 Lakh BC Agents pan India. He is also Strategic Advisor
– Payments & Digital Banking to select banks. As a Fintech Professional, he provides strategic
advisory services in Fintech & Payments space to select initial & growth stage start-ups, Sunil
has over 35 years of cross-industry experience in technology-led businesses. In his last
assignment (Dec 2019), he was the Joint Managing Director for Oxigen Services, a company
he helped build over 15 years.
Sunil is referred to as the techno-savvy brain behind developing a successful business model,
using technology, for varied services & products, including the Oxigen Mobile Wallet, an
innovative payment mechanism and prepaid wallet, accessible online/on-mobile. He
successfully led the company's Business Development and was also the architect for the
technology solutions in the initial phase. He, alongside the Oxigen core team, converted
Oxigen from a Recharges/BillPay company, to an integrated Branchless Banking & Payment
Solutions company with state of art Oxigen SuperPoS MicroATM. He was responsible for
taking the company in 2010-15 period to its next greenfield opportunity in Domestic &
International Remittances, Merchant Payments, Aadhaar enabled payments, Loyalty &
Corporate Expense Management Solution using Mobile Wallets/cards.
Before taking the role of CEO-BCFI, he was the founding member & Director on board of the
BCFI and also co-chaired Prepaid Payments Instruments (PPI) committee in Payments Council
of India (PCI). He has contributed through PCI, enabling environment for PPI industry with his
interactions with government (Ministry of Finance) and regulator (Reserve Bank of India). He
actively participated in Mobile Payments Forum of India (MPFI) in 2007-10 for facilitating RBI’s
first prepaid payments instruments (PPI) guidelines in 2009. He also co-chaired the Prepaid
Payments Instruments (Mobile Wallets) Committee in the Payments Council of India (PCI) and
through his interactions with government and regulator during and post demonetisation,
made an immense contribution to creating an enabling environment for the Digital
Payments/Wallet industry.
Prior to joining Oxigen, Sunil served as General Manager - Marketing & Business Development
in Motorola India Wireless Infrastructure business. He started his professional journey with
Siemens Ltd., where he last served as the Head of Semi-Conductor Division. Sunil is an
Engineering Graduate in Electronics & Communication with Gold medal in 1986 from Jodhpur
and completed his Management Education from Indian Institute of Management,
Ahmedabad in 1992-93.
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Envisioned Speakers

Ashneer Grover
MD & Co-Founder
BharatPe

T Rabi Sankar
Deputy Governor
RBI

Dilip Asbe
MD&CEO
NPCI

Praveena Rai
Chief Operating Officer
NPCI

Venkatram Jayanthy
MD & CEO
India Post Payments Bank

Prateek Roongta
MD & Partner
Boston Consulting Group

Dinesh Tyagi
CEO / CSC
e-Governance Services India

Shri Nitesh Ranjan
Executive Director
Union Bank

Ram Gopal
Chief Executive Officer
Barclays Bank India

Abhishant Pant
Founder
The Fintech Meetup

Dheeraj Aneja,
SVP
Flipkart

Shri Anuj Ranjan
GM,Fintech Department
Reserve Bank of India

Puja Srivastava
Co-Founder
Spocto Solutions Pvt Limited

Nischal Shetty
Founder and CEO
WazirX

Sumit Gupta
Co-Founder and CEO
CoinDCX

Rashmi Bhapkar
VP Operations
SBI Payments

Arjun Ahluwalia
Founder & CEO
Jai Kisan

Mukesh P Kalra
Founder & CEO
ET Money

Sachit Sahni
Head, Transaction Banking Group
IndusInd Bank

Vivek Venugopalan
Head - Cash Management Product
YES Bank

Parag Rao
Country Head - Payments Business
HDFC Bank Ltd

Hariharan R
Head - Payments & Digital Channels
Axis bank

Sanjeev Moghe
President & Head - Cards and Payments
Axis Bank

Gopal Bhagat
Deputy Chief Executive
Indian Banking Association (IBA)

Mr. Gopal Murli Bhagat
Deputy Chief Executive
Indian Banks Association

K Vaidya Nathan
Assistant Professor (Practice)
ISB Alumni Endowment Research Fellow
Event Schedule
Here is our event schedule

Registration & Networking

Opening Remarks
Keynote

Opening Keynote :
The Indian Payment Landscape & The Future Outlook
SESSION ONE – FUTURE OF PAYMENTS
Allocated to The Co-Host

Fire Side Chat:
Revolutionizing Modern Digital Payments Through Faster Payments

Key Presentation:
Payments Bank- Driving Financial Inclusion in India

TEA & NETWORKING

Tech Talk:
Increasing Efficiency Through PaaS (Payment as A Service)

Key Presentation:
Retail Payments – Accelerating the Growth Of Consumer Digital Transactions

Strategic Panel:
Driving India Towards Becoming a Cashless Economy

LUNCH & NETWORKING
SESSION TWO – INNOVATION IN PAYMENTS
Allocated to Platinum Sponsor

Tech Talk:
Digital Disruption & The Indian Payment Industry

Key Insight:
PSPs- Facilitating SME Sector growth in India

Key presentation:
Enabling Financial Institutions to Future Proof Payments Space

TEA & NETWORKING

Tech Talk:
Secure Multi Channel Payment Enablement & Intelligent Delivery

Strategic Panel:
Digital Payments & Their Impact on India’s Ecommerce

Key Insight:
Decoding ISO 20022

CLOSING REMARKS
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