Chairman, SEBI delivered a keynote address and participated in a panel discussion during Global Fintech Fest 2026

PR No.55/2026 Chairman, SEBI delivered a keynote address and participated in a panel discussion during Global Fintech Fest 2026 During Global Fintech Fest (GFF) 2026 in Mumbai, Chairman, SEBI, today delivered a keynote address on “Growing Fast, Growing Safe: Regulating a Large and Technology- Intensive Securities Market”. He highlighted predictive supervision through SupTech and AI, the Demat 2.0 corporate bond tokenisation pilot, and cyber and quantum resilience, emphasising that innovation must scale without risk scaling at the same pace.

Chairman, SEBI, also participated in a high level panel discussion on “Innovation with

Stability: Regulating Capital Markets in the Age of AI, Tokenisation and Quantum Technology”. The other panellists included Mr. Hanzo van Beusekom, Member of the Executive Board, Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM), Netherlands and Chair of International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) Fintech Task Force and Mr. Tajinder Singh, Deputy Secretary General, IOSCO. The discussion was moderated by Mr. Dilip Asbe, MD & CEO, National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI).

The panel discussed how regulation can enable innovation while protecting investors and market integrity. The discussion covered AI accountability and safeguards, predictive supervision through SupTech, critical technology dependencies, tokenisation and changing market structures, investor education, and cyber and quantum resilience.

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