‘Open is the word’: Juspay’s Ishan Sharma on population-scale payments, agentic commerce and India’s global fintech play
At the Global Fintech Fest 2026, Juspay executive Ishan Sharma said the company’s 12-year journey has been shaped by solving payments at population scale in India, where reliability, interoperability and developer-first design have become core competitive advantages. In an exclusive interview with The Economic Times, he argued that the next frontier is agentic commerce and that Indian fintech firms should build products with developed markets in mind, not just domestic use cases.
