BCG, in association with PhonePe, has released a report providing a detailed outlook on the factors accelerating the growth of digital payments in India. The report highlights critical imperatives and drivers leading to a US$10 trillion digital payments economy in the next 5 years.
Each episode brings together influential visionaries, experienced BCG leaders, and top editorial voices from Mint - engaging in rich, three-way conversations that decode what’s next in India’s global trajectory. Rooted in BCG’s international expertise and deep CEO engagement, the series offers timely, actionable insights for leaders navigating an increasingly complex world.
Across focused episodes, the vodcast unpacks the key growth pillars of India’s ascent - from innovation and digital transformation to sustainability and leadership at scale. It’s an essential resource for future-ready CEOs and decision-makers who aim to lead with intent in today’s evolving global landscape.
Across focused episodes, the vodcast unpacks the key growth pillars of India’s ascent - from innovation and digital transformation to sustainability and leadership at scale. It’s an essential resource for future-ready CEOs and decision-makers who aim to lead with intent in today’s evolving global landscape.

Episode 1: Financial Inclusions for the World
In the inaugural episode of this leadership podcast, leaders explore how credit bureaus are transforming financial inclusion in India—and what the world can learn from it.

Episode 2: Energy Transition for the World
India is building the world’s largest green energy infrastructure, from renewable capacity and storage to hydrogen exports - turning energy independence into a global competitive advantage.

Episode 3: Startups for the World
What makes India a twin-engine startup powerhouse? Explore the core of India’s startup ecosystem - an environment brimming with innovation and rapidly emerging as a global benchmark.

Episode 4: Talent for the World
India’s talent revolution is here. Adaptable, ambitious, and globally competitive. From AI adoption to ‘brain circulation’, discover why this might truly be India’s moment.

Episode 5: AI for the World
India’s AI revolution: 34,000 GPUs, ₹65/hour access, and the race to build voice-first LLMs for the world. Here's how India is scaling AI for the world.
Leadership Podcast Series by BCG in India
The Leadership Podcast Series by BCG in India is where some of India’s finest minds in the world of business give their views on ideas, challenges, and opportunities on a variety of issues ranging from technological developments, macroeconomics, emerging business models, digital enablement, consumer behavior, marketing, finance, and climate concerns, among others.

Episode 4: Unfolding MedTech & HealthTech in an Era of Rapid Technology Disruptions
Rahul Guha, BCG alumnus and Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Thyrocare Technologies Ltd, shares the importance of mentoring and building trust as crucial factors for organizations to succeed today. He states that both key leadership lessons were picked up from his days at the Boston Consulting Group.
In this podcast, he elaborates on how in an era of rapid technology disruptions, the BCG experience cuts through the clutter to foster a culture of meritocracy and high performance that goes hand in hand with purpose. He emphasizes this as the reason why most CEOs look at BCG as a thought leader, a pioneer of new thoughts and ideas, a place that often finds the right answer to a quintessential C-suite question: what the next big thing is, and how does one achieve it.
In this podcast, he elaborates on how in an era of rapid technology disruptions, the BCG experience cuts through the clutter to foster a culture of meritocracy and high performance that goes hand in hand with purpose. He emphasizes this as the reason why most CEOs look at BCG as a thought leader, a pioneer of new thoughts and ideas, a place that often finds the right answer to a quintessential C-suite question: what the next big thing is, and how does one achieve it.

Episode 3: Future Gazing: Digital Healthcare in India
Priyanka Aggarwal, Managing Director & Partner, co-lead, India Healthcare Practice, BCG India and Dr. Sangita Reddy, Joint Managing Director, Apollo Hospitals Group, discuss the emergence of digital healthcare in India as an idea whose time has come and its broader social and economic implications on a new India seeking to assert itself as a global economic power.
In this podcast, they discuss some of the key drivers behind the rapid digitization of India’s healthcare ecosystem, including the Covid-19 pandemic that brought the world’s healthcare systems to a halt but also forced governments and industries around the world to reimagine healthcare delivery models and embrace the digital transformation of the sector.
In this podcast, they discuss some of the key drivers behind the rapid digitization of India’s healthcare ecosystem, including the Covid-19 pandemic that brought the world’s healthcare systems to a halt but also forced governments and industries around the world to reimagine healthcare delivery models and embrace the digital transformation of the sector.

Episode 2: Endgame for Cash? 2 out of 3 payment transactions likely to be digitized by 2026
Prateek Roongta, Partner and Managing Director, and Karthik Raghupathy, Head of Strategy and Investor Relations at PhonePe, discuss at length the key drivers of the rapid growth of India’s digital payments ecosystem—one that will nearly triple to $10 trillion by 2026 from the current $3 trillion. The podcast underscores why cash will no longer remain king by 2026, the year when we are likely to see two out of every three payment transactions being digitized and, thus, inverting the digital (non-cash) contribution to payments by value from approximately 40% today to about 65% by 2026.

Episode 1: Is Consumption Spending the Strongest Edifice of the India Growth Story?
Abheek Singhi, Senior Partner and Managing Director, holds forth on several key themes related to India's rise as one of the world's fastest growing consumer markets. Abheek has led the Consumer and Retail practice in Asia-Pacific and is a BCG Fellow where he examines how technology can provide leapfrog opportunities in emerging markets. With nearly 25 years of experience with clients in emerging markets such as India, China, Southeast Asia and the Middle East as well as with clients in the US and Canada, he has also coauthored the bestselling BCG book, The $10 Trillion Prize (published by the Harvard Business Review Press). In this episode, Abheek discusses how the consumer is the prime mover of the Indian economy and much more.
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