Payments Brief: Jul 3, 2026

Payments and FinTech Daily delivers a concise, executive-level briefing on the most important developments in payments, banking, and financial technology. In today's episode: Walmart-backed PhonePe confidentially files for an IPO in India; Razorpay follows suit, testing investor confidence in diversified payments models; Flipkart invests further in Supermoney, pursuing lending and broking; India evolves payments rails to include QR-based UPI payments into EMIs; Zelle prepares for near-instant remittances using stablecoin; Reserve Bank of India explores a system-wide ‘kill switch’ for fraud mitigation. Today's episode is brought to you by: BNewshel Consulting Affiliate Links:ElevenLabs: try.elevenlabs.ioSquare: squareup.com/refer