{"id":1016556,"date":"2026-06-24T08:04:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1016556"},"modified":"2026-06-24T08:06:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:36:38","slug":"foreign-influence-increasing-over-indias-fintech-sector-gtri-on-metas-investment-in-cred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/24\/foreign-influence-increasing-over-indias-fintech-sector-gtri-on-metas-investment-in-cred\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign influence increasing over India&#8217;s fintech sector: GTRI on Meta&#8217;s investment in Cred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giant Meta&#8217;s $900-million investment in Cred has raised concerns about growing foreign influence over India&#8217;s fintech sector and financial data ecosystem, think tank GTRI said on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>It said that the deal gives Meta a foothold in one of the country&#8217;s richest repositories of consumer financial-behaviour data, covering credit cards, loans, investments, insurance, and UPI transactions. <\/p>\n<p>PhonePe, Google Pay, and WhatsApp Pay are already linked to Walmart, Google, and Meta, respectively, it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giant Meta&#8217;s $900-million investment in Cred has raised concerns about growing foreign influence over India&#8217;s fintech sector and financial data ecosystem, think tank GTRI said on Tuesday. It said that the deal gives Meta a foothold in one of the country&#8217;s richest repositories of consumer financial-behaviour data, covering credit cards, loans, investments, insurance, and UPI transactions. PhonePe, Google Pay, and WhatsApp Pay are already linked to Walmart, Google, and Meta, respectively, it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016558,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016556\/revisions\/1016558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}