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The Only Event to Bring Together the Entire FinTech Ecosystem
FinTech Connect Europe returned to The ExCeL for another fantastic year. The 2-day event brought together financial technology leaders from banks, insurers, merchants, fintechs and technology solution …
An opportunity to Connect with the full Fintech Ecosystem under one roof
FinTech Connect Europe made its return to The Excel on the 4th and 5th of December 2024, for another successful year. This two-day event continues its mission to unite global thought leaders across th …
Open Banking’s success dependent on concerns over data security and privacy
FinTech Connect Europe brought together 1300 experts from across the fintech ecosystem for two days of networking, discussions, and learning. As silver sponsors at FinTech Connect Europe, we caught up …
Software development is at the heart of any business now

Software development is at the heart of any business now

26 Feb 2025 Mike Long - Co-Founder & CEO - Kosli
Software development is at the heart of any business now, and managing IT risk is an ever increasing challenge. The pace of change, together with powerful tooling in the cloud, open source, and AI spa …
CBDCs on the Horizon: Navigating Diverse Perspectives
Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) have become a hot topic in the fintech ecosystem, sparking a wide range of opinions and perspectives. To gain deeper insights into how professionals across the …
Charting Web3's State of Play: A Smartphone Analogy
In the fast-paced world of technology, understanding the current state of Web3 is no simple task. To gauge the progress of this emerging technology, we turned to a familiar analogy: the evolution of m …
Crowning the Innovation Epicentre: European Contenders in Payments
In the ever-evolving landscape of financial technology, every fintech hub aspires to be recognized as the epicenter of innovation. When it comes to payments, there is fierce competition to lead the wa …
The Gen AI Effect: How Generative AI Is Shaping Digital Strategies in 2023/24
In the fast-paced world of fintech, staying ahead of the curve is essential to success. As we transition into 2023, the role of Generative AI in shaping digital strategies has become a topic of signif …
Wrestling with Regulatory Reporting: Overcoming Key Challenges
Regulatory reporting is a critical component of the financial industry, serving as the backbone of transparency and accountability. However, it's no secret that navigating the complexities of regulato …
AI Integration in Regulatory Processes: A Closer Look
In the ever-evolving landscape of the financial sector, the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in regulatory processes is gaining increasing attention. To understand how AI is being utilized in this …
FinTech Connect Europe 2022 Wrap Up:
FinTech Connect Europe 2022 Wrap Up: FinTech Connect Europe 2022 returned for the first time in 3 years, fully in-person, bringing the entire FinTech ecosystem to ExCel to benchmark, discuss and debat …
Interview: David Larsson, CEO at Sileon
Operating within the thriving Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) segment, FinTech Connect interviewed David Larsson, CEO of Sileon to dive deeper into the Sileon business model and why this area of the market …
Interview | Matt Sloan | Head of Business Development at Discover Global Network
1. Please give us a little introduction on your current role and what you do. Discover is a major Fortune 500 financial services company with essentially two parts. In the US, we run a full-service co …
Interview | Leigh Garner | Head of Industry Relations at Discover Global Network
1. Please give us a little introduction on your current role and what you do. I currently lead the Industry Relations team at Discover Global Network, the team responsible for engagement with industry …
Does crypto have a mainstream future?

Does crypto have a mainstream future?

07 Dec 2022 Sarah Monaghan
What is the institutional trajectory for crypto today? It’s an important question to ask. The true potential of cryptocurrencies will only materialise when they spread beyond the retail market and bec …
Sponsor Inteview: Dirk Mourik - Global Director of Enterprise Strategy, eCommerce, Marketplaces, and Payments at Ekata
FinTech Connect 2022 arrived back with a bang after a three year absence. As one of the leading sponsors at FinTech Connect, Dirk Mourik at Ekata explored the top payments trends he predicts ahead of …
Sponsor Interview: Mike Kiely, Sales Director for Financial Services at IDnow
With a vision to make the connected world a safer place, IDnow is a leading identity proofing platform provider in Europe. The IDnow platform provides a broad portfolio of identity verification soluti …
What is the future of NFTs within the banking sector?
Is there a future for digital representations of assets – or non-fungible tokens (NFTs) – as a credible currency for banks? The answer really is yes – but not yet… But first, what are NFTs? They are, …
Sponsor Interview: Eric Queathem, EVP, Global Head of Strategy and Emerging Businesses Worldpay from FIS
Ahead of FinTech Connect 2022 taking place on 30th November - 1st December, we shined the spotlight on Eric Queathem EVP, Global Head of Strategy and Emerging Businesses Worldpay from FIS, who are one …
What will a recession mean for the fintech sector?
KPMG categorised 2021 as a “remarkable year” for the fintech sector. It saw a record number of deals in every major region – including the Americas, EMEA, and the Asia-Pacific. But what’s ahead in 202 …
The metaverse effect on the payments space
How is the metaverse going to change the way the payments ecosystem work? Let’s start with a brief explanation to understand just how transformational the Web 3.0 convergence of technologies is set to …
Panel: Open Banking – what does it look like moving forwards?
With FinTech Connect arriving back fully in person on 30th November - 1st December, rewatch the panel discussion answering the key question What does Opening Banking look like moving forwards? The pan …
What can we expect of Open Banking in H2 2022?
We’re more than four years on from the ‘birth’ of Open Banking. So what can we expect ahead and how has it changed the payments landscape so far? Back in 2018, the legislation that powered the start o …
Panel: How to effectively embed RegTech within your digital strategy
Watch the panel discussion from December 2021 looking at the process of effectively embedding RegTech within your digital strategy. Giving their opinions and ideas into this key topic included: Modera …
Flying Blind? The case for API Security & Observability
Modern banking and financial services are radically changing, continuously transforming through new Apps, Blockchain and disruptive competitors. Interfaces and connections between systems is the reali …
The regulatory challenge posed by embedded fintechs
The rise in financial products or services embedded within and delivered through non-regulated entities has thrown open a world of possibilities for consumers. And it’s all happening at a dizzying pac …
How fintech is ‘paying it forward’ in societal inclusion
Fintech may have become a multibillion-dollar business. But happily, those it is benefiting are often in the more vulnerable and underserved segments of society. The Global Fintech Industry Market is …
Panel: Building a resilient, future-proof digital transformation strategy – what is the new normal?
Rewatch on demand this exclusive panel discussion from FinTech Connect Europe 2021 discussing how Fintechs enhance digital infrastructure and becoming more agile and what business models of the future …
Innovation vs regulation – Who wins out?
Watch this panel discussion looking at Maintaining an innovative environment amongst increasingly complex regulatory demands, the benefit of regulatory technology to both industry and regulators and p …
Minding the regulatory gap in the Fintech space
The speed at which technology is changing the financial services landscape is imposing unprecedented pressure on regulators. Digital technologies are reshaping payments, lending, insurance and wealth …
Panel: Protecting Financial Institutions from Security Breaches and Financial Crime
Watch the Panel Keynote session debating and discussing How we protect Financial Institutions from Security Breaches and Financial Crime. Watch leading experts from the Fintech background including: M …
Hans Brown, Head of Enterprise Innovation and CIO for Corporate Technology, BNY Mellon takes us through the best practices of achieving innovation through the process of collaboration. Watch it here!
Interview | Niels Van Daatselaar Co-Founder & CEO at TreasurUp

Interview | Niels Van Daatselaar Co-Founder & CEO at TreasurUp

02 Dec 2021 Niels Van Daatselaar Co-Founder & CEO at TreasurUp
TreasurUp's Co-Founder and CEO, Niels Van Daatselaar, shared his thoughts and ideas on the current digital transformation priorities for Financial Insituitions after the Pandemic, how he felt the new …
Interview | John Salter Chief Customer Officer at ClearBank

Interview | John Salter Chief Customer Officer at ClearBank

01 Dec 2021 John Salter Chief Customer Officer at ClearBank
"We’ve seen 10 years of change in banking and payments in just 10 months because of the pandemic." John Salter, Chief Customer Officer at Clearbank explores the current situation of the banking indust …
How are global brands utilizing blockchain to improve their supply chain?
Watch the panel discussion answering the question 'Are enterprises embracing tokenization? How are global brands utilizing Blockchain to improve their supply chain?' Listen to expert speakers from the …
Are value-added services the key to the future of banking?
The revolutionary impact digital technology is having on banking operations has imposed on the sector both a responsibility and opportunity to provide better products and services to its customers. As …
Interview | Michel van Woudenberg Vice President Customer Experience for FSI, at Oracle Product Development
Michel is Oracle’s Vice President Customer Experience for FSI, at Oracle Product Development shared his thoughts on Oracle customers changing expectations in the current economy and landscape, how ban …
Interview | Ed Adshead-Grant, Director of Strategic Business Development at Bottomline
We caught up with Ed Adshead-Grant, Director of Strategic Business Development at Bottomline to find out the role Bottomline plays within the complex payments ecosystem, their real life examples of be …
Panel: What will be the impact of AI and analytics in Financial services?
This panel discussion looks at the likely impact of AI and analytics within Financial services. Join leading experts from the Fintech industry as they discuss the future impact including: Tijssen, Glo …
KEYNOTE PANEL: What is the role of AI in overhauling banking infrastructure? Has it been technology, culture or both?
This keynote panel discussion from FinTech Connect North America 2021 looks at the role of AI in overhauling banking infrastructure? Questioning whether it is technology, culture, or even both? Join o …
Interview | Tim Maddock, Co-Founder at i2i Logic
How is data evolving in financial services and what are the biggest challenges for financial services dealing with data? Tim Maddock, CEO at i2i Logic shared his thoughts on these very questions and g …
Interview | Andrew Bud, CEO at iProov
What role is iProov playing in driving the digital transformation forward? Andrew Bud, CEO at iProov shares his thoughts on the impact digital indentity verification will have on customer experience, …
Banking on AI: the true value of AI in Financial Services
In a matter of decades, banking has changed fast. ATMs were introduced in the 1960s and PINs and electronic card-based payments in the 1970s. The 2000s saw steady adoption of 24/7 online banking, quic …
Why institutions can’t ignore decentralized finance
Decentralized finance leverages key principles of the Ethereum blockchain to increase financial security and transparency, unlock liquidity and growth opportunities, and support an integrated and stan …
Keynote: As banks transform into digital powerhouses, how do startups and fintechs effectively engage?
What is the best strategy for startups and fintechs in order to engage effectively as banks transform into digital powerhouses? Watch the panel from Fintech Connect North America as Dominic Venturo, S …
Coopetition in Blockchain - Team-Building in the 21st Century
What are the thoughts of Dale Chrustie, Blockchain Strategist, Global Lead at FedEx on the coopetition in Blockchain and what can we take from this? Click here to watch the video
Interview | Ion Fratiloiu, Head of Commercial at Yobota
Ion Fratiloiu, Head of Commercial at Yobota shares his thoughts on the role Yobota are playing in the accelerated digital transformation and how Yobota are working with Fintechs to drive innovation. H …
Coopetition in Blockchain - Team-Building in the 21st Century
Watch this session from FinTech Connect North America, June 2021, on the 'Coopetition in Blockchain - Team-Building in the 21st Century' with Dale Chrystie, Blockchain Strategist, Global Lead, FedEx. …
The mutual incentive for banking and FinTech interoperability
“The bankers of tomorrow are technologists who enable banking experiences your customers will use across the digital landscape.” This is the prediction of Brett King, the world-renowned futurist and a …
Payments Engineering and Stoicism
Regular software engineering trusts that a system, given the same input, will always give the same output. However, when you enter the payments world, anything can happen after you click on that "pay" …
How JP Morgan is shaping the future of Payments?
Watch the keynote session from Jeremy Balkin, Head of Fintech & Innovation, Wholesale Payments at JP Morgan as he explains the strategies JP Morgan are taking to shape the future of payments. What wil …
Why the future of our wallets is digital
Even five years before the pandemic, the ‘death of cash’ had long been predicted –due to the growing use of credit and debit cards. Post-Covid, and the global consumer finance ecosystem is being furth …
Why is FinTech still dawdling on diversity?

Why is FinTech still dawdling on diversity?

08 Oct 2021 By: Sarah Monaghan
The people benefiting from the advance of FinTech and the way finance is experienced by consumers all over the world are many. They are black, white, LGBTQ+, male, female, young and old… But the peopl …
View the panel discussion on The Future of Institutional Crypto with Itay Tuchman, Global Head of Foreign Exchange at Citi and Eva Szalay, Currencies Correspondent at Financial Times. Click here to wa …
Panel: Are we now driving towards a crypto future?
Watch the panel discussion as Ville Sointu, Head of Emerging Technologies at Nordea, Laurent Marochini, at Societe Generale Securities Service, Diana Barrero Zalles, Director of ESG and Impact at Wiel …
What’s the future for crypto?

What’s the future for crypto?

23 Oct 2021 By: Sarah Monaghan
The questions are many. Will crypto-currencies go down in 2021? Will they go up? Will they eliminate physical currencies? Will they be stateless and mean people can interact financially wherever they …
Panel: Optimizing commercial payments at time of external crisis
Find out the views of industry experts from R3, Phoenix FX and JP Morgan about Optimizing commercial payments at time of external crisis. Click here to watch the panel discussion at Fintech Connect No …
Panel: During this period of accelerated digital transformation how do banks keep their payments secure?
Find out the views of industry experts from R3, Phoenix FX and JP Morgan on 'During this period of accelerated digital transformation how do banks keep their payments secure?' Watch the panel discussi …
The evolution of B2B payments in 2021
Today, automation is the driving force behind how the B2C payments landscape. But how much is digital changing the way B2B payments are made? Paper has already been almost completely replaced by elect …
Panel: 2008 vs 2021, How can Fintech drive an innovative recovery?
Find out how industry experts from Barclays, Chime, Koho, MSU Federal Credit Union, and Technisys believe how Fintech can drive an innovative recovery. Watch the panel discussion at Fintech Connect No …
The Future of Banking: the importance of agility, culture, and talent
Hear what Kahina Van Dyke, Global Head Digital Channels & Data Analytics at Standard Chartered interviewed by Douglas Mackenzie, Host at FinTech Finance had to say about on the Future of Banking and t …
the-future-of-banking-the-importance-of-agility-culture-and-talent
This year’s Kalifa Review of UK FinTech is a clear sign of two things. The report, published in March 2021 by HM Treasury, will direct national policy thinking on the fintech sector in the wake of Bre …
The roadmap to the future of Digital Transformation
Dramatic as it may sound, gaining, sustaining or losing a momentum may shape the spiral of digital transformation in the financial arena. Unstructured data being the new oil is just the tip of the ice …
Panel: What does the US payments ecosystem look like post COVID?
Find out how industry leaders from Aite Group, East West Bank, Albertsons, Wells Fargo, Verizon Wireless and Incode believe the US payments ecosystem has changed in the wake of the pandemic. Watch the …
Panel: In The Age of Covid-19, What is the ‘New Normal’ in Financial Services?
Watch the Panel discussion from FinTech Connect North America, June 2021:  'In the age of Covid-19, what is the ‘new normal’ in financial services?' Covering : Adapting digital infrastructure to meet …
How might FinTechs drive the economic recovery?
No-one was ready for COVID-19 – except, perhaps, the fintech sector. Necessity is the mother of invention…As a result of the pandemic, digital solutions such as mobile wallets, blockchain or crypto cu …
What is the Future of Blockchain in Banking?

What is the Future of Blockchain in Banking?

22 Jul 2021 By: Sarah Monaghan
Whether you know DLT as Distributed Ledger Technology or as Blockchain Technology (as it’s more commonly known), its effect now, and in the future, is decentralization. And the big question is decentr …
Interview with Michael Haney at Technisys
Learn about the evolution of Digital Transformation and how banks can keep up with Fintech challengers. With Michael Haney,  Head of Cyberbank Core,  Technisys. How has the concept of Digital Transfor …
Coopetition in Blockchain - Team - Building in the 21st Century
Dale Chrystie, Blockchain Strategist, Global Lead, FedEx on Coopetition in Blockchain - Team - Building in the 21st Century. Blockchain is changing supply chains. It is improving productivity through …
Panel: Blockchain in financial services – can digital assets improve profitability and productivity?
Blockchain has spent the past few years in a perceived ‘trough of disillusionment’. 2021 has proved very different with the successful application of blockchain in financial services. There is also in …
Who Should Manage your Digital ID?
Digital ID has the potential to deliver huge convenience benefits for both individuals and banks across the world. And it’s already here – and growing. A single interoperable digital identity is likel …
What’s next for DeFi?

What’s next for DeFi?

22 Jun 2021 By: Sarah Monaghan
DeFi is one of the hottest topics in the finance space right now and for good reason. It is happening now. So the burning question is not if – but when – will DeFi disrupt traditional market? But ther …
Fintech State of Play

Fintech State of Play

By: Sarah Monaghan
FinTech Connect reveals that many fintechs simply want to survive the next year 44% of fintechs are focused on optimising business processes to improve efficiencies Over a third said they had launched …
How electronic trading is evolving thanks to ‘conversational banking'
This autumn, IBS Intelligence hosted an interesting podcast episode called How electronic trading is evolving thanks to ‘conversational banking’. The Glue42 COO James Wooster as a special guest of Rob …
Interview: Alex Reddish, CCO at Tribe Payments
Learn about the inspiration behind Tribe Payments's State of Industry Report, the surprising findings and more with their CCO, Alex Reddish.   What was the inspiration behind the state of industry rep …
Interview with Bottomline's General Manager and Director of Payments, Ed Adshead-Grant
Bottomline's General Manager and Director of Payments, Ed Adshead-Grant, talks to Fintech Connect and shares the latest from Bottomline and what we can expect from 2021. Don't miss him speaking at Fin …
Interview with Alan Blanchard, Business Development UK at Apiax
We know how crucial it is for businesses to comply with different regulations worldwide. But it seems to be even harder to do that while your workforce is working remotely. Why so? Financial instituti …
FinTech Awards 2021
VENT UPDATE In order to ensure the event is both safe and compliant with the latest guidelines, the event has been postponed until 8 September 2021. We hope this means that it can go ahead in a physic …
FinTech Connect unveils its 2020 agenda featuring speakers from Starling Bank, Tide, Facebook, Pinterest & HSBC
PRESS RELEASE FinTech Connect unveils its 2020 agenda featuring speakers from Starling Bank, Tide, Facebook, Pinterest & HSBC Agenda for the UK’s largest fintech show includes sessions from more than …
Her Majesty, The Queen, appoints Dr. Bījna Kotak Dasanī, Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) for her outstanding services to diversity and inclusion
Congratulations to Oxford Saïd and De Montfort University alumna Dr. Bījna K. Dasanī MBE, FRSA who has been awarded an MBE for ‘services to diversity and inclusion in the financial services’ sector in …
During the past 6 months there have been winners and losers in the world of FinTech. Tide have been a clear winner in a battle for relevance and importance in UK FinTech. They have been key, along wit …
The UK’s central bank has continued to embrace change and the rise of FinTech; looking at new technologies, which are changing the way financial institutions conduct their business. They have recently …
Hi Holland, Please give our readers a quick intro into what you do and your areas of specialism. Cyxtera is a global leader in data centre colocation and interconnection services. Our global platform …
CCgroup is a B2B tech PR agency with a rich heritage in fintech and is a long-standing partner of FinTech Connect. The agency works with players big and small including Flywire, Moorwand, Signicat, Re …
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