{"id":999590,"date":"2026-03-27T07:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T02:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999590"},"modified":"2026-03-27T10:02:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T04:32:47","slug":"ai-spend-in-indias-financial-services-sector-to-double-in-2026-qed-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/27\/ai-spend-in-indias-financial-services-sector-to-double-in-2026-qed-investors\/","title":{"rendered":"AI spend in India\u2019s financial services sector to double in 2026: QED Investors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AI spend in India\u2019s financial services sector is set to double in 2026, according to a report by venture capital firm QED Investors, driven by a maturing financial services market that\u2019s pushing companies to adapt to rapid shifts. <\/p>\n<p>The report divides the Indian market into three segments. The affluent segment \u2014 the top 10% of the population \u2014 accounts for roughly 70% of discretionary spending and 80% of financial assets. The emerging cohort, i.e., the next 30% of the population, represents the most dynamic growth opportunity for financial services. The sustaining segment, which comprises the remaining 60%, is characterised by a largely informal economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI spend in India\u2019s financial services sector is set to double in 2026, according to a report by venture capital firm QED Investors, driven by a maturing financial services market that\u2019s pushing companies to adapt to rapid shifts. The report divides the Indian market into three segments. The affluent segment \u2014 the top 10% of the population \u2014 accounts for roughly 70% of discretionary spending and 80% of financial assets. The emerging cohort, i.e., the next 30% of the population, represents the most dynamic growth opportunity for financial services. The sustaining segment, which comprises the remaining 60%, is characterised by [&hellip;]<\/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-999590","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\/999590","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=999590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}