{"id":994043,"date":"2026-02-20T11:19:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T05:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994043"},"modified":"2026-02-20T11:19:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T05:49:57","slug":"ai-impact-summit-2026-french-pm-emmanuel-macron-lauds-indias-upi-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/20\/ai-impact-summit-2026-french-pm-emmanuel-macron-lauds-indias-upi-system\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Impact Summit 2026: French PM Emmanuel Macron lauds India&#8217;s UPI system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday reflected on how, ten years ago, a street vendor in Mumbai struggled to open a bank account due to the lack of documents or a formal address. Today, he noted, that same vendor can receive instant, free digital payments from customers across the country. Through this example, Macron underscored how India\u2019s creation of a digital identity system covering 1.4 billion people has reshaped daily life and expanded financial access.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing Day 4 of AI Impact Summit 2026 at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, Macron lauded India&#8217;s digital growth and its digital payment system, Unified Payments Interface (UPI), adding that India&#8217;s digital payment system now processes 20 billion transactions every month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday reflected on how, ten years ago, a street vendor in Mumbai struggled to open a bank account due to the lack of documents or a formal address. Today, he noted, that same vendor can receive instant, free digital payments from customers across the country. Through this example, Macron underscored how India\u2019s creation of a digital identity system covering 1.4 billion people has reshaped daily life and expanded financial access. Addressing Day 4 of AI Impact Summit 2026 at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, Macron lauded India&#8217;s digital growth and its digital payment system, Unified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994043","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}