Before “fintech” became the go-to buzzword for innovation in financial services, Jignesh Shah was already creating a revolution. In an era when India’s markets were largely manual, opaque, and limited to a privileged few, Shah envisioned and built digital trading ecosystems that would later be considered textbook examples of fintech innovation. His story is not just about entrepreneurship — it’s about being decades ahead of his time. In the late 1990s, India’s financial infrastructure was tightly controlled and lacked technological agility. Jignesh Shah Financial Technologies, a former engineer at the Bombay Stock Exchange, noticed the inefficiencies and systemic gaps in market access, speed, and transparency.
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