The Summit
Two days at the heart of the festival. 1,000+ senior decision-makers from fintechs, banks, investment firms, regulators and service providers, in the heart of London.
Fifteen tracks. Two stages. Two days.
The Summit runs Tuesday 21 and Wednesday 22 September 2027. Two stages, fifteen tracks and the conversations shaping finance now: AI, quantum, security, payments, digital assets, global growth and fundraising.
Every pass includes up to 20 pre-booked one-to-one meetings across the two days.
Whether you’re scaling locally, entering the UK from abroad, backing the next wave, seeking innovation inside a bank or shaping policy, this is where the ecosystem convenes.
The tracks
Tuesday 21 September
Event Welcome & Opening Keynote
The Future We Want
How the decisions we make in finance shape people and planet.
- Money moves the planet: how lending, investment and payments shape climate outcomes
- Who is finance working for? inclusion, jobs and access to financial services
The Quantum Countdown
The ascension of quantum, and what readiness entails.
- Beyond the code-breaking: where quantum computing could change finance first
- Ready or not: how a bank, a payments firm and a fintech are preparing
- Hype or horizon? when quantum will really change finance
- Mind the skills gap: the quantum expertise firms lack, and how to close it
AI: Friend or Foe?
Where AI is delivering inside financial firms, where it is falling short, and where to focus next.
- Show me the money: AI projects that paid off
- The pilots that never landed: AI projects that fell short
- When AI bites back: the new costs and risks AI has created
- Back the winners, kill the rest: where to focus AI spending next
Security Under Siege
When the attack comes, what happens next? Real breaches, told by the firms that lived through them.
- Hour zero: anatomy of a real attack
- To pay or not to pay: ransomware, insurance and recovery
- The back door you signed for: attacks through suppliers
- Fake CEO, real losses: deepfakes and AI-powered attacks
Digital Assets Go Mainstream
The technology is proven and adoption is spreading fast: how tokenisation, stablecoins and digital asset custody are becoming part of everyday finance.
- From niche to normal: tokenised deposits and real-world assets in everyday use
- Stablecoins on the balance sheet: treasury, settlement and reconciliation
- Who holds the keys? custody and distribution models
- Winning at scale: what separates the market leaders now that adoption is widespread
Stack Decisions
For the people who build and run fintech infrastructure: the choices that decide cost, control and resilience.
- Your data, whose rules? sovereignty in practice
- Harvest now, decrypt later: security after quantum
- When the cloud goes dark: outages and reliance on a few big providers
- The bill nobody budgeted for: the cost of cloud and computing
The Payments Race
Faster rails, new rules and AI agents at the checkout. Who is winning the race, and at what cost?
- Follow the money: rail economics across cards, instant payments and open banking
- PSD3, minus the hype: the operational changes that matter
- The agent will pay now: agentic commerce and who carries the risk
- Scaled or scrapped: payment products that made it, and those that did not
Innovation Showcase
Game-changing innovation from ten trailblazers. By invitation only.
Wednesday 22 September
Event Welcome & Opening Keynote
The Global Economy Outlook
Rates, trade and capital are being redrawn. Where does that leave finance?
- Where Value Moves Next: the technologies and sectors gaining and losing ground
- A fractured world: rates, tariffs, trade blocs and the rise of tech and data sovereignty
- Follow the capital: where investors and talent are heading
- The US factor: what US rates, policy and markets mean for UK fintech
Guardrails for Growth
Regulation can open a market or close it. Reading the rules as a route to growth.
- Licence to grow: where regulation opens access, and where it closes it
- One rulebook, many markets? cross-border compliance without duplicating cost
- Sandbox to scale: moving from a regulatory sandbox to a full licence
- When the agent gets it wrong: who carries the loss
The Next Growth Corridors
For UK fintechs looking out: the biggest growth opportunity markets right now, and what it takes to win in each.
- Gulf gold rush: the UAE and Saudi Arabia, fast-track licences and sovereign capital
- Asia’s next wave: India, Singapore and Southeast Asia, real-time payments and super-apps
- Africa’s mobile-first leap: Nigeria, Kenya and Egypt
- Latin America’s fintech boom: Brazil, Mexico and Colombia, instant payments and millions newly banked
The Fincrime Frontline
Fraudsters are faster, cheaper and increasingly automated. Stopping them without punishing good customers.
- Who pays when the scam lands? authorised push payment fraud and reimbursement
- The cost of saying no: false positives at checkout
- People who do not exist: synthetic identity
- Agents gone rogue: hijacked AI agents
London’s Scaling Champions
Founders who scaled from London tell the story behind the growth: the calls that worked, the ones that nearly broke them, and what they would do again.
- The moment it clicked: the decision that changed the trajectory
- Nearly didn’t make it: the crisis behind the growth story
- Why London: what the city gave them, and what it didn’t
- Advice to the next wave: what they would tell founders starting out now
Revving Your Growth Engine
Partnerships promise growth. The deal terms decide who actually gets it.
- Read the small print: revenue share, data and pricing
- Who owns the customer? the relationship when a platform sits in the middle
- Why the honeymoon ended: partnerships that stalled
- Direct, partner or both? distribution and the cost of winning customers
The Fundraising Leap
From first institutional round to private equity-ready: who is backing fintech, what they check, and the restructuring each leap demands. With leaders of PE-backed businesses in peer-to-peer conversation, moderated by an investor.
- Who’s writing fintech cheques? the investors active in fintech now, from venture capital to private equity
- Regulated and raising: how licences, capital requirements and compliance history shape due diligence
- Through the PE lens: what private equity looks for that VCs don’t
- Cleaning house: restructuring the cap table and the organisation before the next stage
The Modern Marketer
How fintech brands earn attention, trust and loyalty when the rules of discovery are changing.
- The power of influence in the semantic era: winning attention when AI search and assistants answer the question
- Trust is the new conversion: earning and keeping trust when scams and deepfakes make customers wary
- Tools on trial: which marketing tools earn their place, and scaling content without losing the brand’s voice
- Creators, not campaigns: founder-led and creator marketing in a regulated industry
Showcase, Curated Rooms & Hosted Meetings
Innovation Showcase
Game-changing innovation from ten trailblazers. Tuesday afternoon, Stage 2, by invitation only.
Ask about an invitation →Exhibition
50 exhibitors showcasing fintech innovation, from Start Me Up lightboxes to Pro stands.
See the stands →Demo stage
On the show floor, every exhibitor gets a 10-minute slot to demo their product live, running alongside the main programme.
Included with every stand →Hosted Meetings
Up to 20 pre-booked one-to-one meetings across the two days, set up through the matchmaker app before you arrive.
See passes →Workshops
A dedicated room for 45-minute, hands-on practical sessions. Run your own workshop: the host sets the topic.
Email to enquire →Roundtables
A dedicated room for 45-minute, closed-door conversations of 12–14 peers. No audience: the host sets the topic. Lunch roundtables are a premium sponsorship.
Email to enquire →