India’s fintech sector is growing like crazy. According to a report by the Boston Consulting Group, the sector is currently worth around 50-60 billion dollars and will continue to grow to a valuation of 150-160 billion dollars by 2025. That’s a threefold increase in just five years.
The growth of India’s fintech sector is not going unnoticed abroad. As many as 2,000 fintech companies in India together received over 30 billion dollars in foreign investment in the past five years. This represents 14% of global investments in the fintech market. The fintech sector in India received 8.5 billion dollars in funding in FY22.
Driving the explosive growth of the sector are the numerous Indian start-ups offering innovative technologies to make things like banking, lending, insurance and investing easier, more insightful and accessible. In addition, the adoption of making online payments has gained momentum due to stringent lockdowns in 2020. The fintech sector is benefiting from this.
Snapshot of the fintech sector in India
- India is one of the fastest-growing fintech markets in the world. Of the more than 2,000 fintech companies that currently exist in India, over 67% were founded in the last 5 years.
- The number of online payments has doubled in the past 3 years, from 45 billion transactions in 2019-20 to 92 billion in 2022-23.
- The value of all fintech transactions will grow from 66 billion dollars in 2019 to 322 billion dollars by 2027.
- The percentage of Indians with bank accounts has doubled in the last decade, with over 80% of India’s population having accounts in 2019.
- India has the highest adoption rate of fintech products in the world, as high as 87%.
Growth drivers of India's Fintech sector
- India has the world’s second-largest fintech sector.
- The ecosystem of the Indian fintech industry already has a wide range of sub-segments, such as payments, loans and insurance, but is rapidly expanding to include things like wealth management.
- India has one of the largest talent pools of highly skilled, technical personnel in the world.
- Indian society is digitizing very fast. By 2023, India had 1 billion smartphone users, doubling the number of users in 2020.
- The high volume of funding in the sector, from home and abroad, creates room for innovation in the sector.
- The Indian government has many ongoing initiatives driving the growth of the sector, such as Start-up India and India Stack.
Interesting investment opportunities
- WealthTech: Online investment advisory service and help with managing finances.
- Payments: Online payment options such as PayTM.
- Lending: Technology and digital solutions to facilitate loan search, application and repayment.
- InsureTech: Technological innovations to improve the efficiency of the insurance industry.
- SaasTech: Specific SaaS solutions for the FinTech sector.
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