Emirati-Indian Fintech Wizz Financial Revolutionizes Global Payments with UPI
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Forbes India•28-09-2026, 15:57
Emirati-Indian Fintech Wizz Financial Revolutionizes Global Payments with UPI
- •Wizz Financial, an Emirati-Indian cross-border fintech headquartered in the UAE and India, is building infrastructure to take India's UPI global.
- •The company aims to dismantle friction points in international finance, treating India as the center of a global network rather than just a remittance destination.
- •Wizz Financial's in-house cloud-native, API-first platform ensures consistent quality, security, and speed across markets, focusing on solving human problems with technology.
- •The Wizz Financial App and SWITCH, its proprietary cross-border interoperability infrastructure, enable real-time, multi-currency money movement without relying on legacy systems like SWIFT.
- •Wizz Financial's hybrid model combines digital architecture with a vast physical network in India, serving both domestic residents and non-resident Indians, and onboarding international visitors onto UPI.
Key Questions Answered
Wizz Financial utilizes India's Unified Payments Interface (UPI) as its revolutionary payments architecture to build a borderless financial ecosystem and scale remittances globally.
At the Global Fintech Fest in Mumbai, Wizz Financial launched SWITCH, a proprietary cross-border interoperability infrastructure that enables real-time, multi-currency money movement without legacy correspondent-banking networks.
Wizz Financial extends its reach into underserved rural and non-metro areas through a partnership with Common Services Centres, leveraging the Government of India's Digital India network of Village Level Entrepreneurs.
