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The India Payments Trends 2026 report shows how quickly the country’s digital payments landscape is changing, driven by new technologies, policies, and innovation.

Technology investors and acquirers continued to focus on businesses with strong execution, scalable offerings and clear commercial relevance during the second quarter of 2026.

By creating distinct incentives for manufacturing, localisation, and innovation, the mobile phone manufacturing scheme encourages businesses to invest across the entire mobile phone value chain.

The technology deal environment in early 2026 reflects a structural recalibration in capital deployment and strategic intent.

Explore Grant Thornton Bharat’s pre-Budget 2026 insights across sectors including automotive, banking, technology, infrastructure, healthcare, taxation, and investment priorities shaping India’s economic, regulatory, and policy landscape.

Union Budget 2026–27 marks a structural turning point for India’s technology economy. Rather than approaching technology through isolated sectoral incentives, the Budget articulates a connected national strategy that treats technology as core economic infrastructure.

Economic Survey 2025-26 outlines India’s macroeconomic performance, growth drivers, inflation dynamics and fiscal consolidation, offering key policy signals ahead of the Union Budget 2026

Economic Survey 2025-26 highlights technology as a core pillar of India’s growth strategy ahead of Union Budget 2026. It positions digital infrastructure, AI, data centres and applied innovation as essential economic capital, reshaping productivity, resilience and state capacity while redefining policy expectations for the technology industry.

As India prepares for a defining fiscal moment, the Union Budget 2026–27 is expected to set the tone for the country’s next growth cycle. At a time of shifting global dynamics and evolving domestic priorities, this Budget will be closely watched for clear signals on reform momentum, investment focus, and economic resilience.

Budget 2026 can change India’s historically weaker pathways to commercialisation by creating an environment where innovators can move from prototype and product to global scale.

A practitioner-focused guide to India’s FTAs, covering tariff benefits, rules of origin and operational compliance across active and upcoming trade agreements.

The report also highlights outbound strategic activity and the role of technology in operational transformation.

Eight years since its launch, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) has proven itself to be one of the most transformative reforms in India’s fiscal history.

The latest edition of the Quarterly GAAP Bulletin summarises significant accounting, auditing and regulatory updates, compiled to meet the needs of dynamic Indian businesses and focuses on key developments in India and across the globe.

Technology investors entered 2025 with a clear focus on disciplined capital deployment and long-term value. The Q1 2025 edition of Technology Dealtracker captures how dealmakers responded to global economic signals by concentrating investments in resilient, innovation-driven segments.

The India Payments Trends Report 2024 highlights the key trends in the domain of digital payments for the period January to December 2024