News Summary

• Report estimates India’s MSME credit gap at around ₹25 lakh crore as of March 2025.
• The report comes at a time when India is positioning its financial sector to support long-term economic expansion.
• Despite the credit gap, the report highlighted significant progress in financial access.
• Around 89 per cent of Indian adults now have a financial account, while the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) processes more than 20 billion transactions every month and accounts for nearly half of global real-time payment volumes.