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Global Fintech Fest

9 – 11 September 2026 · Jio World Centre, Mumbai

Global Fintech Fest is one of the largest fintech gatherings in the world, drawing more than 100,000 attendees to the Jio World Centre in Mumbai. It is built around India's digital public infrastructure model.

Why it might be worth the flight

The stablecoin conversation here is framed differently from anywhere else: not as a replacement for the banking rail, but as something that sits alongside UPI-style public infrastructure. If you want to understand how stablecoins coexist with a working real-time payments system, this is the event.

Key details

Format
Three-day festival
Scale
100,000+ attendees
Focus
Digital public infrastructure, UPI-style rails, stablecoins alongside them
Who goes
Banks, fintechs, regulators, payment networks, founders

Paying while you are there

  • India is deeply UPI-first. Card works at hotels and larger merchants; choose rupees at the terminal every time.
  • Tickets and hotels are usually priced in dollars already, so there is nothing to convert.
  • At the card machine, choose the local currency. Never take the offer to be billed in dollars.

Step 1 · The ticket

Get into Global Fintech Fest

Priced in dollars. Paid in dollars. Nothing lost in between.

Official tickets

Passes get more expensive the longer you wait, and the good side events fill up from the main ticket list. Book the pass first. Then the travel.

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Step 2 · The flight

Get to Mumbai

Search around the conference dates.

Flights to Mumbai

Fares climb sharply in the four weeks before a major conference. Around five and a half hours from Singapore.

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Step 3 · The room

Stay in Mumbai

A conference week empties a city of rooms. Book early.

Know before you tap

Two rules that save you real money abroad

  1. 01

    At the card machine, always choose the local currency

    Converts once, at a flat 1.8% Forex Charge.

    Why the dollar option costs more

    The machine will offer to charge you in dollars instead. It sounds helpful. It is not. Choose the local currency - baht, yen, won, whatever is on the screen - and your money converts once, at a flat 1.8% Forex Charge.

    Taking the dollar option is called dynamic currency conversion. The shop sets that exchange rate, not Visa, and it usually costs you 3% to 7%. You will never see it listed as a fee, because it is hidden inside the rate. That is the point of it. Say no, every time.

  2. 02

    Online, pay in dollars when the site is already in dollars

    Nothing to convert, nothing to pay. 0%.

    Why this one is not a trick

    Booking sites, conference tickets and airlines often quote in dollars already. That is not a conversion trick. That is just the price. Your money is already in dollars, so there is nothing to convert and nothing to pay. 0%.

    Hotel in dollars. Flight in dollars. Ticket in dollars. Three charges, no conversion on any of them.

Your money stays yours, wherever you land

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