aLWAYS PRACTICAL, ALWAYS PRAGMATIC

AGENDA

DESIGNED TO SUPERCHARGE GROWTH

Built for Fintechs, Banks, and Enterprises That Are Serious About Scale.

Fintech Week London goes deep on the technology, strategy, and relationships that separate challengers from category leaders – across two days, two stages, and eight tracks designed for founders, operators, and the bank and enterprise leaders who are done with surface-level insight.

Come to build. Leave with the people who’ll help you do it.

dAY 1 - Wednesday 09 sep

AI, Convergence, REGULATION & Trust

Day one goes deep on the forces reshaping fintech from the inside: AI as a competitive edge, the regulatory environment you need to get ahead of, the fintech/crypto convergence that’s closer than most people think, and the trust that takes years to build and seconds to lose.
TIMEROOM 1ROOM 2
09:00Opening address and keynote
09:30 – 11.00

AI IN ACTION – Part 1

  • The Human and AI Balance: Where Automation Ends and Judgement Begins
  • When AI Becomes Your Competitor: Rebuilding Your Moat
  • Who Signs Off on the Agent? Building AI Governance That Doesn’t Slow You Down

REGULATION REIMAGINED – Part 1

  • Consumer Duty: Who’s Winning and Why
  • Inside the Regulatory Sandbox: How Live AI Testing Is Already Changing the Rules
  • Open Finance Is Here: What the New Data Rules Mean for Your Product Strategy
11:00 – 11.30Coffee & Networking
11:30 – 13.00

AI IN ACTION – Part 2

  • From Copilots to Agents: What’s Actually Ready to Run Your Workflows
  • The AI Product Decision: What to Build, What to Buy, and What to Leave Alone
  • Measuring AI ROI: The Metrics That Tell You Whether It’s Actually Working

REGULATION REIMAGINED – Part 2

  • Turning Compliance into a Growth Strategy
  • RegTech That Actually Works: Moving Beyond Checkbox Compliance
  • Cross-Border Compliance: How to Scale Across Jurisdictions Without Doubling Your Legal Bill
13:00 – 14.00Networking Lunch
14:00 – 15.30

THE CONVERGENCE – Part 1

  • What Stablecoins Mean for Your Payments Costs Right Now
  • The End of the TradFi/Crypto Divide
  • Stablecoins Go Mainstream: What Consumer Adoption Actually Looks Like

TRUST AS CURRENCY – Part 1

  • The Trust Stack: Building Security Customers Can Actually Feel
  • The Deepfake Economy: Defending Against AI-Driven Fraud and Identity Cloning
  • The Breach Playbook: What to Do When – Not If – Something Goes Wrong
15:30 – 16.00Coffee & Networking
16:00-17.30

THE CONVERGENCE – Part 2

  • When AI Agents Need Wallets
  • Real World Assets: The Tokenisation Opportunity Fintechs Are Sleeping On
  • DeFi Is Not Dead: What Decentralised Finance Actually Offers Fintech Builders Now

TRUST AS CURRENCY – Part 2

  • Operational Resilience: Meeting the Regulator’s Bar Without Slowing Down
  • Proving Who You Are Without Killing the Experience: The New Identity Verification Standard
  • Third-Party Risk: Managing the Security Gaps You Didn’t Build Yourself
17:30Evening Networking & Drinks

dAY 2 - Thursday 10 sep

Scale, Growth and Capital

Day two gets into the decisions that drive growth: the infrastructure and stack decisions you can’t undo, go-to-market strategy, capital, and what it actually takes to scale past the point where most companies stall.
TIMEROOM 1ROOM 2
09:00Opening address and keynote
09:30 – 11.00

BUILT TO SCALE

  • Session TBC
  • Geopolitics
  • From UK to Europe to Global: The Expansion Playbook

ARCHITECTING

  • Rethinking Core Infrastructure: The Stack Decisions You Can’t Undo
  • API First: Building for the Embedded Finance Era
  • Build or Buy? The Operating Decisions That Define Category Leaders
11:00 – 11.30Coffee & Networking
11:30 – 13.00

BUILT TO SCALE

  • The Scaling Ceiling: Why Growth Stalls at £10M ARR and How to Break Through
  • Operating Model Design: Building the Structure That Scales With You
  • The People Problem: Hiring, Culture and Leadership at Scale

ARCHITECTING

  • Data as a Moat: Why Your Architecture Is Your Competitive Advantage
  • Cloud, Multi-Cloud, Hybrid: Making the Infrastructure Decision Before It Makes Itself
  • Building the AI-Ready Data Stack: Real-Time Context Without the Legacy Drag
13:00 – 14.00Networking Lunch
14:00 – 15.30

THE GROWTH ENGINE – Part 1

  • Why Safe Marketing Is Killing Your Growth
  • Marketing to Machines: When AI Does the Research and Makes the Decision
  • The Embedded Distribution Play: Reaching Customers Through Other People’s Platforms

FOLLOW THE MONEY – Part 1

  • Seed to Series A in the AI Diligence Window: The New Bar for Metrics and Moat
  • When VC Isn’t the Answer: The Capital-Efficiency Case for Raising Less
  • How to Build an Investor Engagement Strategy That Attracts the Right Capital
15:30 – 16.00Coffee & Networking
16:00 – 17.30

THE GROWTH ENGINE – Part 2

  • Session TBC
  • Turning Sign-Ups Into Revenue
  • Session TBC

FOLLOW THE MONEY – Part 2

  • Strategic Investment: What Happens When a Corporate Wants In
  • Runway Management: How to Make Capital Last Without Killing Growth
  • The Term Sheet Decoded: What Founders Get Wrong When Negotiating Investment