FinTech Connect 2026 | The Home of Financial Innovation | Excel London
Excel London  ·  1-2 December 2026

Two days to go deep
on what matters
to your work.

The UK's largest dedicated financial technology event. Banks, fintechs, regulators, investors and policy-makers - every part of the industry, in one building, for two days.

5,000+
Professionals
150+
Exhibitors
250+
Speakers
59
Countries
📍 Excel London, Docklands - 1-2 December 2026
🏆 The UK's largest dedicated fintech event, running since 2014
🌍 Attendees from 59 countries, including delegations from the US, Middle East and Asia
New for 2026: Corporate Finance and Treasury audience from FTSE 100 and 250
Networking at FinTech Connect
Exhibition floor
Content stages
FinTech Connect 2025
The home of financial innovation

10+ years connecting fintech suppliers
with enterprise buyers.

FinTech Connect is where financial institutions come to find partners. Banks, financial institutions and enterprise teams attend to evaluate solutions, compare providers, and move projects forward.

For exhibitors, this creates a rare environment: a concentrated audience of senior buyers, actively in-market, across two days. It's not a passive audience. It's a live commercial environment.

In 2026, the event expands further with a dedicated Corporate Finance and Treasury audience - bringing CFOs and finance transformation leaders into the same space.

5,000+
Senior professionals, two days
150+
Exhibitors - from global banks to early-stage fintechs
10+
Years as the UK's leading fintech event
FinTech Connect 2026 - what it is

Seven tracks. Every function
in financial services.

Whatever your role - technology, payments, compliance, finance, AI, digital assets or growth - there is a track built around the specific challenges you are working on in 2026. Send the whole team. Each person follows the programme most relevant to their work.

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Tracks built around specific functions, not a generic agenda
Digital Assets and Tokenisation. Corporate Finance. Payments. RegTech. Digital Transformation. AI in Finance. FinTech Marketing. Each stage covers the regulatory context, technology decisions and strategic debates that matter to one specific function in 2026.
250+
Speakers from institutions, regulators, innovators and investors
Not a single type of voice. Practitioners from Tier 1 banks sitting alongside fintech founders, FCA representatives alongside venture investors. The full range of perspectives on how financial services is changing.
120+
Organisations sending multiple functions, not just one person
The most value comes when different teams attend together. Technology, payments, risk, compliance and finance leaders from the same organisation - each in the track that matches their work, comparing notes at the end of the day.
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Days of thought-provoking discussions with real outcomes
Sessions from the people setting policy and building the technology. Peer benchmarking with people doing the same job at different institutions. Introductions that would take months to arrange any other way. Leave with clarity on what to do next.
Organisations that sent teams to FinTech Connect in 2025

HSBC - Barclays - Lloyds - JPMorgan - Deutsche Bank - Mastercard - Visa - BlackRock - NatWest - Citi - and 100+ more

See who attends
For qualifying financial services professionals

It is free to register.
Secure your place now.

Two days. Seven tracks. 5,000+ decision-makers. Excel London, 1-2 December 2026. Free for qualifying financial services professionals - no card required.

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Why it matters

The conversations that
move your work forward
start here.

Regulatory briefings direct from the FCA and Bank of England. Peer benchmarking with people at equivalent roles in competing institutions. Technology demonstrations from the companies your team is already evaluating. Two days structured to produce outcomes, not just insights.

The innovators shaping what comes next
Startups, scaleups and technology leaders presenting the solutions that banks and institutions are actively evaluating - including many that are already live.
The institutions navigating the same challenges
Peers from banks, financial institutions and corporate finance functions dealing with the same regulatory, technology and transformation pressures you are facing in 2026.
The regulators and policy-makers setting the direction
Representatives from the FCA, Bank of England and other bodies - presenting directly on the frameworks and timelines your work has to respond to.
42%
Banks and financial institutions
80%+
Senior leadership
33%
C-suite and founders
59
Countries represented
What you get across two days

Two days designed to help you
understand, connect and act.

Every format at FinTech Connect is built around the same idea - leave with something you can actually use.

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7 focused content tracks
Sessions built around specific functions - payments, AI, regulation, digital transformation, corporate finance, tokenisation and growth. Find the track where your work lives and go deep.
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Connections that go somewhere
Structured introductions, open networking and a room full of people who are there for the same reason you are. Context-first connections that skip the cold start.
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150+ companies on the exhibition floor
See the technology being implemented across financial services right now. Compare providers, ask questions and benchmark what your peers are already deploying.
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Conversations that move things forward
Not just talks. Real discussions between innovators, institutions and regulators - the kind that shift perspectives, start partnerships and clarify what to do next.
Seven content tracks

Seven tracks. Every major topic
in financial services.

Every track is built around a specific function in financial services. The agenda spotlights the topics, debates and regulatory developments that matter most to that function in 2026.

Interested in speaking? Apply here
Track 01 New for 2026
Digital Assets and Tokenisation
"Not just regulated infrastructure - the gateway to programmable financial markets."
Tokenisation is shifting from speculative narrative to a regulated infrastructure agenda. Sandboxes are live. DLT reform is near. DLT Pilot Regime, tokenised securities in a regulated framework, stablecoins and CBDC infrastructure decisions.
Head of Digital Assets CIO / Asset Manager Custody Director Tokenisation Programme Lead Regulatory Counsel
30+ sessions
Track 02 New stage 2026
Corporate Finance Innovation
"Finance automation becomes compliance automation."
CFOs, Treasurers and finance transformation leaders navigate Making Tax Digital from April 2026 and ViDA's staged rollout through 2035. Treasury technology modernisation, real-time cash visibility and ERP transformation.
CFO / Group CFO Group Treasurer Head of Finance Transformation ERP Director Head of Tax Technology
Track 03
Payments Innovation
"2026: the runway for growth in payments and finance interoperability."
Real-time rails, embedded finance and the next wave of B2B payments innovation. Who owns the customer, who owns the liability. Fraud prevention at the speed of instant payments. Cross-border interoperability and open finance progress.
Head of Payments Embedded Finance Lead CEO / Founder (PayTech) Head of Transaction Banking Fraud Director
35+ sessions
Track 04
Financial Security and Compliance
"Faster decisions. Less tolerance for error."
DORA implementation in practice. EU AI Act obligations for financial services firms. Escalating AML reform and what it means for compliance operations. Compliance automation that moves at the speed of the business. FCA represented.
Chief Compliance Officer Chief Risk Officer MLRO CISO Head of Financial Crime
Track 05
Digital Transformation in Finance
"The multi-decade transformation from legacy to digital has reached a zenith."
Core banking modernisation without operational disruption. Cloud operating models and ICT dependency management under DORA. Vendor ecosystem management as regulatory exposure. EU-UK frameworks for cross-border incident oversight.
Group CIO CTO Chief Digital Officer Core Banking Programme Director Head of Vendor Management
40+ sessions
Track 06 New for 2026
AI in Finance
"From proof of concept to production - responsibly."
AI governance frameworks that satisfy regulators without killing velocity. Model risk management, validation and explainability in practice. Agentic AI in financial services - where it's safe and where it isn't yet. AI in fraud, credit decisioning and customer ops.
Chief AI Officer Chief Data Officer Head of Model Risk ML Engineering Lead AI Governance Lead
40+ sessions
Track 07
FinTech Marketing and Growth
"Growth in a sector where trust is the product."
Acquiring and retaining customers in financial services is uniquely difficult. Regulated messaging, long trust cycles and a crowded market mean standard growth playbooks rarely transfer. Brand-building in fintech, performance marketing within FCA financial promotion rules, product-led growth in regulated environments and AI-powered personalisation.
Chief Marketing Officer VP Growth Head of Brand Performance Marketing Director Head of Product Marketing Customer Acquisition Lead
Seven content tracks

Your role is on the programme.

Each track reflects a core function inside a bank, financial institution, or corporate finance team. Map your responsibilities directly to the agenda and build two days around what matters most to you.

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Scaling AI across the business?
Track 06 is built for you - governance frameworks, model risk, agentic AI and deployment at scale.
Running a payments transformation?
Track 03 covers your landscape - real-time rails, embedded finance, B2B innovation and fraud at speed.
Responsible for compliance and fraud?
Track 04 has your regulatory outlook - DORA, EU AI Act, escalating AML reform and compliance automation.
Leading digital or core modernisation?
Track 05 goes deep on what works - core banking modernisation, cloud operating models and vendor management.
Who is in the room

The whole ecosystem.
In one place.

FinTech Connect brings together every part of the financial services industry. Real data from 2025.

42%
Banks and financial institutions
Tier 1, Tier 2 and challenger banks, plus asset managers, insurers and payment networks - the core of the financial services world.
33%
Fintechs, startups and solution providers
From seed-stage startups to established scaleups - innovators presenting, partnering and competing for attention from the institutions in the room.
59
Countries represented
A genuinely global room. Delegations from the US, Middle East, Asia and across Europe - bringing different regulatory contexts and market perspectives.
Also in the room Regulators and policy-makers including the FCA and Bank of England - plus investors, consultants, academics and industry bodies. Not just practitioners. The full ecosystem.
Every function. Every level.

Your whole team
belongs here.

Different functions attend different tracks - and every function in financial services has a track built for them. Select a group to see who attends, what they are working on, and where they spend their time.

Digital Assets and Tokenisation

Digital Asset Leaders and Tokenisation Teams

Institutional adoption is accelerating. Heads of Digital Assets, custody directors and tokenisation leads are attending to get ahead of regulatory change and infrastructure decisions being made now.

Roles attending
Head of Digital Assets / Head of Tokenisation
Tokenised securities, fund issuance and custody strategy
CIO / Asset Manager
Digital asset portfolio strategy and institutional adoption
Custody Director / Head of Securities Services
Digital custody infrastructure and settlement
More roles
Blockchain Strategy Lead / DLT Programme Lead
DLT Pilot Regime, permissioned networks and architecture
Regulatory Counsel / Head of Digital Regulatory Affairs
MiCA, DLT reform and EU regulatory landscape
VC / Investor (Digital Assets)
Tokenisation infrastructure and early-stage deal flow
Digital Assets and Tokenisation Digital Transformation Financial Security and Compliance
Banks and Financial Institutions

Technology Buyers and Transformation Teams

Tier 1, Tier 2 and challenger banks attend as coordinated teams - bringing technology, payments, risk, compliance and transformation functions together in one building for two days.

Roles attending
Group CIO / Group CTO
Enterprise technology strategy and vendor selection
Chief Digital Officer
Digital transformation programmes and platform strategy
CISO / Chief Risk Officer
Cybersecurity, operational resilience and regulatory compliance
More roles
Head of Payments
Payment rails, scheme strategy and acquiring
Head of Financial Crime / MLRO
AML, fraud prevention and sanctions compliance
Digital Transformation Director
Core banking modernisation and cloud migration
Digital Transformation Payments Innovation Financial Security and Compliance AI in Finance
New for 2026 - Corporate Finance and Treasury

CFOs and Finance Transformation Leaders

A brand new audience for 2026. FTSE 100 and 250 CFOs, Treasurers and Finance Directors attending to evaluate treasury technology, ERP transformation and working capital solutions.

Roles attending
CFO / Group CFO
Finance strategy, technology investment and ERP transformation
Group Treasurer / Head of Treasury
Cash management, liquidity and treasury infrastructure
Head of Finance Transformation
ERP modernisation, finance automation and process change
More roles
Head of FP&A
Forecasting tools, data platforms and planning infrastructure
Head of Corporate Payments
B2B payment infrastructure and cross-border strategy
Finance Systems Director
ERP, TMS and finance platform selection
Corporate Finance Innovation Payments Innovation AI in Finance
Fintechs and Scaleups

Founders and Commercial Teams

Fintechs attend FinTech Connect to close distribution deals, meet enterprise buyers and build the partnerships that accelerate growth. From seed-stage to post-IPO.

Roles attending
CEO / Co-Founder
Strategic partnerships, distribution and market expansion
Chief Revenue Officer / VP Sales
Enterprise pipeline and financial services customer acquisition
VP Partnerships / Head of Alliances
Bank and FI partnership development
More roles
Chief Product Officer / CTO
Product positioning and technology differentiation
Head of Financial Services Sales
Tier 1 and Tier 2 bank sales cycles and procurement
Head of Growth / Head of Marketing
Brand positioning and demand generation in financial services
FinTech Marketing and Growth AI in Finance Digital Transformation
Investors

VCs, CVCs and Strategic Investors

Selected by curation, not open registration. Accel, Index Ventures, Balderton, Atomico, Anthemis, Dawn Capital and more - attending to source deal flow, track sector trends and meet portfolio companies.

Roles attending
General Partner / Managing Partner
Fintech sector sourcing and portfolio strategy
Investment Director / Principal
Deal flow, due diligence and sector mapping
Corporate Venture Lead
Strategic investment and bank innovation programme mandates
More roles
Head of Fintech (at bank or insurer)
Venture partnerships and innovation pipeline
Venture Partner
Portfolio support and co-investment introductions
Portfolio Operating Partner
Commercial growth and enterprise sales enablement
Digital Assets and Tokenisation AI in Finance FinTech Marketing and Growth
FinTech Marketing and Growth

Growth Leaders and Brand Strategists

Marketing Directors, CMOs and growth leaders from fintechs and financial institutions. Here to benchmark positioning, learn what works in financial services and build commercial relationships that drive pipeline.

Roles attending
CMO / VP Marketing
Category positioning and demand generation strategy
Head of Growth
Acquisition, retention and revenue growth in financial services
Head of Product Marketing
Competitive positioning and go-to-market strategy
More roles
Head of Brand
Brand strategy and market perception in regulated industries
Director of Demand Generation
B2B pipeline strategy and ABM for financial services
Head of Partnerships / BD
Channel development and revenue partnerships
FinTech Marketing and Growth AI in Finance
What people say

Real words from
the room.

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I have been to well over 100 events in the last 10 years but this was easily the highest level of interest and visitors to a stand I have ever experienced.

Jason Redmond
Sales Director, BAT Software
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It was inspiring to be surrounded by so many innovators and forward-thinking companies all under one roof. The future of banking is no longer theory. It is here.

Ishtiaq Ahmed
HSBC
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Wrapping up Day 2 with a deeper appreciation for the vibrancy of the UK financial ecosystem. The conversations, the curiosity, the connections. The momentum is real.

Dinesh Arora
Co-founder, Finnulate
250+ speakers

The people shaping
the future of finance.

A snapshot from 2025. 2026 speakers will be announced soon - join us or apply to speak.

150+ exhibitors

The companies
building what's next.

From global banks to early-stage fintechs — the full spectrum of financial innovation, exhibiting under one roof.

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New for 2026
Corporate Finance and Treasury

A new part of the
ecosystem joins the room.

In 2026, FinTech Connect expands with a dedicated Corporate Finance and Treasury audience. CFOs, Group Treasurers and Finance Transformation Directors from FTSE 100 and 250 companies - attending to understand the technology reshaping their function and connect with the peers navigating the same pressures.

Shell - Unilever - AstraZeneca - Vodafone - Rolls-Royce - Diageo - Tesco
FTSE 100 and 250 companies sending finance teams to the event
A dedicated Corporate Finance Innovation track
Making Tax Digital, ViDA, treasury technology and ERP transformation - a full track built around what CFOs and Treasurers are working on right now
More of the ecosystem in one room
Every new audience group makes FinTech Connect more valuable for everyone already attending - more perspectives, more connections, more of the industry represented
FinTech Connect 2025
Excel London - 1-2 December 2026

Be in
the room.

Wherever you sit in financial services, your agenda is on the programme and your peers are attending. Two days that connect the whole ecosystem. Free to register.

Free to register · No card required · Priority pricing for early registrants