India has built the world's most widely used real-time payments system, a deep base of domestic investors and a fintech ecosystem that is setting global benchmarks. But can it translate this domestic scale into global financial leadership? Bringing together leaders from banking, fintech and digital public infrastructure, this session examines whether India's pioneering digital infrastructure can become the rails for global finance, what it will take to attract long-term international capital and how India can establish itself as a global financial hub.

Central Question: What will it take for global capital to see India not simply as a growth market, but as a home base for global finance?

Venture survival depends on cash distributions, yet public listing routes remain narrow for Southeast Asian tech firms. Bain & Company's SEA Venture Capital Report highlights that while public IPO pipelines remain stalled across domestic bourses, secondary transactions, corporate consolidations, and private equity buyouts generated over $6 billion in regional exit value. With institutional LPs demanding realized DPI over unrealized paper gains, fund managers are redesigning liquidity timelines. This session analyses how leading allocators and founders are engineering secondary sales, structured earn-outs, and strategic trade sales when public capital markets stay constrained.

Capital hasn't left emerging-market fintech. It has just stopped funding the napkin. In the first half of 2026, Southeast Asian fintechs raised US$682 million and MENA fintechs raised US$617 million. In both regions a single round took a third or more of the total, and the number of deals fell sharply. Investors now want real revenue and a short road to profitability before they commit. Investors from the Gulf and North Asia sit alongside two Southeast Asian fintechs to compare what each market rewards, which metrics get a term sheet signed and what founders should ask of the investors they bring onto their cap table.