India, Feb. 16 -- We have been covering some standout sessions from the India AI Impact Summit 2026, and this one brought the trust question into sharp focus for BFSI: as digital onboarding, instant payments and always-on credit scale up, fraud prevention cannot rely on manual oversight or fragmented, rule-based controls. The panel argued that AI must now be treated as core trust infrastructure-driving real-time risk intelligence and resilient controls without increasing friction or exclusion for first-time users and MSMEs.

AI is no longer an "add-on" in banking. It is increasingly the layer that decides whether a system is safe enough to scale. As BFSI expands through digital onboarding, instant payments and embedded credit, the panel o...