Co-organizers

Indian Banks' Association
Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance, Government of India
Ministry of Urban Development
Ministry of Rural Development
SKOCH Development Foundation
Planning Commission
Department of IT Ministry of Communications & IT
National e-Governance Plan
Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai

Presenting Sponsor

IL&FS

Gold Sponsors

Atom
MCXSX
Airtel
Canon
VMWare
ABM Knowledgeware
Bank of Baroda
ItzCash
Central Bank of India

Silver Sponsors

The New India Assurance Company
United India Insurance Company
SAP
NSE
NSE
NSDL
Punjab National Bank
EMC Corporation
Suvidhaa
Corporation Bank
NABARD
Bajaj Allianz

“Financial Deepening” framed India’s next decade of growth as a finance-first project: expand access, lower the cost of intermediation, and hard-wire trust so capital reliably reaches households and enterprises. The summit treated near double-digit growth not as a slogan but as a system design problem—linking financial inclusion, inflation management, technology infusion, infrastructure development, and better governance into one operating blueprint.

A defining moment was the policy push to move financial inclusion into mission mode, articulated by the Reserve Bank’s leadership—arguing that inclusion is the path to genuine deepening, not its afterthought. The call was to convert dormant access into active usage through viable products, last-mile delivery models, and data-driven oversight that makes formal finance work for first-mile citizens and MSMEs.

By tying macro ambition to micro plumbing—payments, savings, credit, insurance—the summit positioned financial deepening as the backbone of India’s competitiveness in the decade ahead. Its message remains timely: growth compounds when the pipes of finance are wide, safe, and used, turning inclusion into productivity and resilience across the real economy.