Archive · 11 Sep 2026
BRICS Forum Sets Trade, AI, Payments And Resilience Agenda
The BRICS Business Forum brings business leaders and government officials together before the main summit.
It is being held in New Delhi, India.
The participants want BRICS countries to trade and invest more with one another.
They are also discussing artificial intelligence, technology, finance, energy and payments.
Jai Shroff said BRICS countries could help one another by sharing resources, technology, money and customers.
S Jaishankar said the world is facing conflicts, health emergencies and climate problems.
He said countries need stronger businesses and supply networks to handle shocks.
India and Russia are working on easier cross-border payments.
India and China are also expected to discuss trade, technology, climate cooperation and border management.
The forum’s ideas may influence the leaders’ decisions and future BRICS programmes.
The BRICS Business Forum began in New Delhi on September 11, 2026, ahead of the September 12–13 leaders’ summit.
India’s chairmanship is organized around resilience, innovation, cooperation and sustainability.
Participants are focusing on trade, investment, finance, artificial intelligence, digital technology, energy security and economic resilience.
Jai Shroff urged members to treat BRICS as an interconnected economic network rather than only a group of large markets.
India and Russia are expected to connect domestic payment systems, while India-China talks are expected to cover trade, technology, climate and border management.
- Who
- Business leaders, ministers and heads of state from BRICS members and partner countries, including Narendra Modi, S Jaishankar, Piyush Goyal, Rajesh Agrawal, Jai Shroff, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping.
- What
- The BRICS Business Forum is shaping an economic agenda covering trade, investment, finance, artificial intelligence, technology, payments, energy security and resilience.
- When
- The forum began on September 11, 2026; the BRICS leaders’ summit is scheduled for September 12–13, 2026.
- Where
- New Delhi, India.
- Why
- To strengthen economic cooperation, expand intra-BRICS trade and investment, improve resilience and provide business recommendations for the summit’s declarations and work programmes.
Deeper Integration
Cautious Resilience
Economic cooperation
Deeper Integration
Jai Shroff and Olga Kulikova emphasized expanding trade, connecting markets and using shared resources, technology and capital to create new commercial opportunities.
Cautious Resilience
S Jaishankar stressed that cooperation must be supported by predictable business conditions, transparent trade and investment, dependable logistics and energy systems able to withstand disruption.
Payments and currency
Deeper Integration
The planned India-Russia payment-network connection and Kulikova’s support for a future BRICS currency are presented as ways to ease trade and travel.
Cautious Resilience
The articles do not establish a BRICS currency or a completed payment system; they describe these as expected or hoped-for developments within a gradual process.
BRICS’s global role
Deeper Integration
Li Jingjing described BRICS as a cooperation platform through which Global South countries can coordinate on trade, green development and technology.
Cautious Resilience
Jaishankar framed the immediate challenge more cautiously, emphasizing geopolitical, economic, pandemic and climate-related uncertainty and the need to remain connected while becoming more self-reliant.
- Forum
- BRICS Business Forum
- Location
- New Delhi, India
- Summit dates
- September 12–13, 2026
- India’s priorities
- Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability
- Main agenda
- Trade, investment, finance, artificial intelligence, digital technology, energy security and payments
- Business forum role
- Its recommendations and private-sector perspectives can inform BRICS summit declarations and future work programmes.
- India-Russia initiative
- The countries are expected to connect their domestic payment networks for cross-border payments.
