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Who’s New at FinovateEurope 2025?

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on January 27, 2025
Categories: FinovateEurope 2025, Marketing

In less than a month, FinovateEurope returns to London at the iconic O2 Intercontinental, bringing together the newest and best ideas in fintech for two, action-packed days (get your ticket before prices increase!). With insightful keynote presentations, panel discussions, and lots of networking opportunities, this event consistently brings incredible value to attendees.

Among the most anticipated highlights of the first day are the live demo sessions, where companies take the stage to showcase their latest product or service. Each company gets just seven minutes to demo their technology— no slides, no pre-recorded videos, just live demonstrations of what makes their solution unique.

This year, we’re thrilled that, out of the 30+ companies set to demo on the Finovate stage, 17 have never made an appearance at a Finovate event in the past. These new faces represent a fresh wave of innovation in areas like AI, cybersecurity, regtech, and payments, and others. They are new to us, and will likely be new to you, as well.

Arva AI
Arva AI uses AI to increase the efficiency and strengthen compliance of business verification for banks and fintechs.

b-next
b-next empowers firms to uncover market patterns and correlations, enabling them to make smarter decisions through advanced financial data analysis.

Byne
Grassroots experimentation can enable teams to leverage GenAI flexibly and cheaply. Byne helps to encourage this innovation while mitigating security risks.

CyberUpgrade
CyberUpgrade offers a cybersecurity co-pilot that helps CTOs offload 95% of ICT security and compliance tasks.

EKAI
EKAI uses GenAI to reduce costs associated with data review and analysis, produce tangible insights, and streamline compliance program management to maximize ROI.

Keyless
Keyless replaces traditional multi-factor authentication methods with automated biometric authentication, improving user experience and cutting costs.

Light Frame
Light Frame offers private banks the foundational technology to streamline back-office operations, accelerate innovation, and elevate security and resilience to the modern standard.

Mati Labs
Mati Labs helps financial institutions transform and grow by enabling AI adoption with robust data foundations, ensuring security and compliance, and fostering knowledge-based innovation.

Mifundo
Mifundo offers data technology to unify and passport credit data in Europe, providing banks with a standardized credit risk assessment.

Moonjelly
Moonjelly is a GenAI platform designed for the finance sector, enabling rapid investment research, automated memo generation, and intelligent document management to enhance decision-making and operational efficiency.

PayIP
PayIP recovers money from Visa and Mastercard for banks and optimizes their billing costs going forward.

Plumery
Plumery helps organizations drive growth by accelerating digital modernization, reducing time-to-market, enhancing customer experiences, and enabling continuous innovation by integrating with existing banking systems.

PromoComply
By streamlining compliance for financial promotions, PromoComply cuts down significantly on the time and cost of maintaining compliant marketing, so organizations build trust with consumers and regulators.

R34DY
R34DY helps organizations transform their business by taking the pain out of integrations and making it easy for business owners to create use cases and reduce time-to-market.

Regsearch AI
Regsearch AI empowers organizations to save time, reduce compliance costs, and scale operations by automating regulatory processes with trusted, explainable, and transparent AI Agents.

RE-ViVE
RE-ViVE helps BFSI organizations navigate the challenges of modernization by simplifying complex processes, unlocking actionable insights from vast data, and driving efficient, scalable transformation.

Xaver
Xaver empowers organizations with AI-driven sales technology to enhance omnichannel customer journeys, improve sales efficiency, and expand or refine their financial product offerings.

In addition to the 17 companies above, we’ll also see the following Finovate alums, as well as others, take the stage to demo.

Dimply
Dimply helps banks and credit unions unlock greater value from their data and create beautiful, personalized, insightful, and resonant embedded financial experiences. Dimply recently demoed at FinovateFall 2024.

Doshi App
Doshi App transforms transactional relationships into engaging user experiences that attract GenZ and support cross-sell opportunities. Doshi App demoed at FinovateEurope 2024.

Intrepid Fox
Intrepid Fox automates key components of KYC review, such as document collection, which reduces onboarding time by 10x. Intrepid Fox demoed at FinovateEurope 2024.

PointChain
PointChain is an AI-driven solution that enables real-time transaction monitoring and risk scoring for financial institutions. PointChain demoed at FinovateFall 2024.

Torus
Torus improves financial and operational efficiency by enabling banks and fintechs with data-driven insights from the billing and transactional data they already have. Torus demoed at FinovateEurope 2024.

We’re excited to host all of these companies, as well as our speakers, panelists, and sponsors, on February 25 through 26 in London. Get your ticket soon to save, and we’ll see you there!

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Why These are My Top Two Sessions on Day 2 of FinovateEurope

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on January 23, 2025
Categories: FinovateEurope 2025, Marketing, Speaker series

FinovateEurope is coming to London’s Intercontinental O2 on February 25 and 26 (grab your ticket here). Over the course of the two days, we will have a range of content loaded with fresh insights and new ideas that will help you stay on top of the latest trends.

With such a wealth of content, it is difficult to choose favorites. For me, however, there are two sessions that always stand out, the Investor All Stars and Analyst All Stars panels. These sessions gather some of the most influential minds and voices in financial services, and the group always addresses the most pressing topics in fintech.

Investor All Stars: Where is the smart money investing in fintech?

Why this session stands out
Analysts will address critical questions about the current state of fintech funding, a hot topic given recent market turbulence. The speaker lineup of investors will offer insights on consolidation trends, wealthtech growth, and the potential for profitable fintechs to reshape the funding landscape.
Key questions to be answered
- Which fintech sectors are still attracting strong investment?
- What lessons can be learned from bubbles that have burst?
- How can fintech startups navigate high interest rates and prepare for successful exits?
Takeaways for attendees
The Investor All Star session will provide clarity for fintech founders and investors navigating a challenging funding environment. Understanding trends like digital asset adoption and profitability-focused growth through the lens of an investor can help guide your thinking on where to focus your time, efforts, and investment in the coming months.
Speakers
- David Kelnar, Managing Director at Houlihan Lokey
- Katherine Wilson, Senior Principal at Illuminate Financial
- Robin Scher, Head of Fintech Investment at Lloyds Banking Group
- Serhiy Tokarev, CoFounder and General Partner at Roosh

Analyst All Stars: How financial services have been changed forever

Why this session stands out
This session is consistently one of Finovate’s most anticipated, and for good reason. Hearing from four top analysts in the space will help you bring fresh perspectives and actionable insights, no matter where you operate in the fintech and banking space.
Key questions to be answered
- What can European banks learn from fintech innovation in Asia, Africa, and Latin America?
- Why has open banking struggled in Europe while succeeding elsewhere?
- What areas of financial wellness, inclusion, and literacy are ripe for innovation?
Takeaways for attendees
Attendees can leverage analysts’ insights to understand global trends and discover opportunities for creating new revenue streams, a better customer experience, cost savings, and more. Both banks and fintechs will also learn from global case studies and benefit from actionable, practical recommendations.
Speakers
- Philip Benton, Principal Analyst at Omdia
- David Barton-Grimley, Fintech Strategy Director at 11:FS
- Suraya Randawa, Head of Omnichannel Experience at Curinos

Both of these sessions are unmissable, so be sure to arrange your agenda to accommodate. All-access passes for the event are currently discounted; save by registering before rates increase!

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2025 is the Year of Fintech Spring: 5 Trends to Watch at FinovateEurope

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on January 15, 2025
Categories: FinovateEurope 2025, List series, Marketing

If you haven’t heard, 2025 is the year of fintech spring. The chill has been taken out of the industry as investors regain confidence, new startups can launch with less risk, and established players are doubling down on new technologies to meet evolving customer demands. From fresh AI applications to the new uses for embedded finance, fintech is experiencing a renewed momentum.

Fortunately, catching up on what’s new and what’s next is as easy as attending FinovateEurope, which is taking place 25 through 26 February in London. The agenda not only features keynote presentations from the region’s top thought leaders, it will also showcase the latest technology available on the market today with live demos from more than 30 fintechs. Register today to get a discount and secure your spot!

To maximize your time spent, each session will highlight some of the newest themes and trends in the industry today. Here are some of the major trends you can expect to see unfolded and explained on stage.

Embedded finance matures

Why it matters:
Embedded finance has been trending upward in fintech over the past few years, and for good reason. It helps organizations add seamless, contextual financial experiences for their customers, but it has also added the potential for banks and financial services companies to add a new revenue stream through Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS). Best of all, it allows both companies and banks to focus on their core competencies while enriching the user experience.

What’s happening:
Embedded finance has proven its utility in the payments and lending worlds, allowing businesses to embed payments tools and lending capabilities into their existing website or mobile app. Now, embedded finance is moving beyond payments and lending into sectors like insurance, healthcare, and logistics.

Where you’ll see it:
Over the course of the two-day FinovateEurope conference, multiple conversations on embedded finance and BaaS will take the stage. Be sure to check out:

This executive briefing on embedded finance titled, “How financial institutions can capture the huge opportunity of embedded finance & embedded banking in both retail & commercial banking.” The session will discuss opportunities for banks to expand their distribution footprint at a relatively low cost, consider risks in BaaS, how to find a competitive strategy, and more.
This power panel titled, “BaaS powered embedded lending is on the rise and is moving beyond buy now pay later – how can financial institutions capture the opportunity?” The panel will look at the rise of lending integrations, the role of AI in risk assessment, embedded finance regulation, and more.

Organizations navigating the impact of the EU AI Act

Why it matters:
The EU AI Act is set to be one of the most comprehensive AI regulations in any region. The regulation went into force in August of 2024 and is poised to shape how banks and fintechs develop and deploy artificial intelligence. The act focuses on transparency, accountability, and controlling risks, especially when it comes to AI’s applications in areas such as credit scoring and fraud detection.

What’s happening:
Fintechs leveraging AI are finding that they need to adapt (and quickly) in order to comply with the new rules while continuing to create and develop new, AI-centric products. While the new requirements might lead to an increase in operational costs, they also might bring new opportunities for organizations to build trust and differentiate their offerings by incorporating ethical AI practices.

Where you’ll see it:
FinovateEurope is sure to be packed with fresh AI use cases and regulatory guidance. Here are just a few of the sessions that will inform and educate on AI application:

This keynote presentation titled, “Artificial intelligence – are we overestimating the short term impact & underestimating the long term impact?.” During the keynote, Tracey Follows will discuss how AI is a long-term trend line and will look at what this means for financial services.
This session titled, “What is the state of play for GenAI in financial services? Assessing leading use cases, challenges, barriers to adoption and how to navigate the roadblocks.” Forrester Analyst Aurélie L’Hostis will help organizations break down practical steps to get started in AI.
This AI power panel titled, “Strategies for successful AI adoption & digital transformation and why achieving success will go beyond the tech.” The panel will bring insight into how the EU AI Act may guide future thinking on the topic. It will also discuss governance, data privacy, security, compliance, and ethical implications about the application of AI.

The rise of AI-powered personalization

Why it matters:
Fintech has sought to help banks personalize the user experience for over a decade. By applying AI and machine learning, firms can help drive hyper-personalized financial products and services.

What’s happening:
Fintechs and banks are enhancing the user experience to help boost engagement and retention, differentiating themselves in a crowded market.

Where you’ll see it:
Just as personalization permeates various subsectors of fintech, the topic will also be present among multiple sessions at FinovateEurope. There will also be a couple of sessions dedicated exclusively to the topic of personalization, including:

This keynote address titled, “Enabling hyper-personalization: fusing functionality, data, and strategic partnerships” that discusses how to deliver hyper-personalized experiences. The conversation will also explore how banks can leverage data, advanced API integrations, and AI-driven insights to offer the right products to the right customers at the right time.
This power panel titled, “The CX revolution – how can FIs compete in a hyper personalized world?” in which panelists will talk about how customers view the world, what lessons can be learned from other verticals, and how to keep up with customer expectations.

Payments get faster and smarter

Why it matters:
Payments are not only getting cheaper, but they are also happening faster, which means that fraud is happening at an increasing rate.

What’s happening:
Global trade and personal remittances, along with everyday transactions, are being shaken up by stablecoins and CBDC experiments, which may help create more transparent payment solutions.

Where you’ll see it:
At this year’s FinovateEurope conference, payments will permeate many of the conversations on stage. Here are two particular panels that will address the top concerns:

Payments power panel titled, “The payments market is estimated at $2.85 trillion in 2024 and is expected to reach $4.78 trillion by 2029 – how can banks reimagine payments and capture this growth opportunity?” The panelists will consider the opportunity available in payments, as well as regulatory concerns and risk.
Keynote address titled, “Authorized push payment fraud losses across Europe may be as high as €2.4 billion, increasing by 20% to 25% annually; how are regulators addressing it?” The presentation will look at payment fraud risk and potential regulatory changes that may address authorized push payment fraud.

Regtech redefined by real-time compliance

Why it matters: Without regtech, banks and fintechs would be on their own to figure out and comply with an ever-changing set of rules. Leveraging a third party regtech provider not only helps organizations reduce compliance costs, it also facilitates faster adherence to new rules.

What’s happening: Regtech solutions can create real-time monitoring tools to keep up with evolving regulations. This is particularly important around crypto and AI regulations as they are very fast-moving fields.

Where you’ll see it:
FinovateEurope will host an entire stage dedicated to discussing banking regulation and risk. Among the presentations taking place are:

Keynote Address titled, “A whistlestop tour of EU regulation – what financial services providers need to know about DORA; FiDA; eIDAS, and DMA?” that will brief the audience on these current and future regulations and look at how regulators are cracking down on risk management.
Power Panel titled, “Banking risk and resilience: meeting the challenges of new regulations, emerging tech, rising banking fraud and new cyber security threats” that will consider digital identity, risks of using AI and cloud risks, managing third party risks, and more.

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FinovateEurope 2025: Exploring the Future of Fintech with Top Futurist Tracey Follows

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on January 9, 2025
Categories: FinovateEurope 2025, Marketing, Speaker series

FinovateEurope 2025 takes place in London on February 25 and 26. Register to attend and save up to £400.

Now that 2025 is well underway, we’re starting to get a better picture of what this year’s FinovateEurope event will look like. Taking place in London on 25 and 26 February, the two-day event will feature live demos from 30+ companies, as well as panel discussions on the hottest fintech topics and keynote presentations from major industry thought leaders.

The headliner keynote address, titled Artificial intelligence – are we overestimating the short term impact & underestimating the long term impact?, will be delivered by Professor Tracey Follows. AI was quick to establish itself as a long-term trend line. Will everything in this decade be defined by AI? And what does this mean for financial services?

Follows, who Forbes listed as one of the Top 50 Female Futurists in the World, will address these questions and offer her thoughts into what else the future has in store for banks.

Follows teaches strategic foresight at London Business School to Senior Executive Leadership and Corporate Management programs globally. She is also Visiting Professor in Digital Futures and Identity at Staffordshire University. She writes a regular AI/Innovation column in Forbes and speaks regularly at AI conferences; her expertise is highly regarded. She is also the CEO of futures consultancy Futuremade, working with the world’s biggest global brands and businesses. Recent clients include Coca-Cola, Tesco, PZ Cussons, Snapchat, Google, Diageo, Sky, Lego, Farfetch, Conde Nast, BT, Telefonica, the IAB, Women’s Business Council and Virgin.

In an interview with Thinking Differently, when asked what a futurist does on a day-to-day basis, Follows said that she is always on the lookout for signals of change. She said that she spends a lot of time at the frontiers of technologies, art, and science.

Follows describes herself as an “anxious optimist” because she is optimistic about the future, but she is anxious that situations might not always turn out to meet the optimistic expectations.

For more details about FinovateEurope, visit the homepage, take a look at the demoing companies, and check out the agenda.

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Streamly Snapshot: Leveraging AI for High-Touch Experiences

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on October 24, 2024
Categories: Finalytics.ai, Marketing, Streamly

Personalizing the customer experience has consistently been a hot topic in fintech and banking over the past decade. This persistence suggests that the financial services industry continues to fall short when it comes to providing a high-quality, tailored user experience.

In the past year, we have seen significant promise from AI tools that can integrate personalization into the customer workflow while still maintaining a high-touch user experience. In today’s Streamly Snapshot, Research Analyst David Penn talks with Craig MacLaughlin, CEO at Finalytics.ai and Baron Conway, CSO at Finalytics.ai about the meaning of personalization, how financial institutions stand to gain from it, the role AI is playing in enhancing personalization, and how firms can embark upon their journey of personalization.

“The ability to deliver the high-touch service– something you were able to do on the phone or in the branch– has really been taken away. So we look at the opportunity to use personalization to get back that experience, but deliver it digitally,” said MacLaughlin. “We’re basically giving community FIs the ability to deliver the same experiences that mega brands are able to do in the digital channel.”

“So to build upon that,” added Conway, “from an institution’s perspective, it enables them, in the digital channel, to build closer relationships, build more loyalty, and– crucially– drive more product sales. Because, if you give someone what they’re looking for, they’re more likely to engage, and purchase, and come back for more.”

Finalytics.ai seeks to help community banks and credit unions compete with larger organizations by helping them personalize the customer journey. The California-based company leverages AI along with real-time data analytics to help drive growth, loyalty, and operational efficiencies.

By blending personalization and innovation, Finalytics.ai helps its financial institution clients meet the evolving needs of their customers in today’s competitive landscape.

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Level Up Your FinovateFall Experience with Personalized Networking

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on August 5, 2024
Categories: FinovateFall 2024, Marketing

Ready to level up your networking game at FinovateFall? We’re here to help! At FinovateFall 2024, which is taking place September 9 through 11 in New York, we’re launching a new, personalized meeting platform called LevelUp.

Introducing LevelUp

LevelUp, Finovate’s new meeting program, is designed to help banks and financial institutions participate in tailored, valuable meetings. The goal of the meetings is to help our financial institution attendees efficiently find providers offering solutions that suit their requirements and ultimately meet critical business needs.

Seamlessly Integrated

LevelUp will be embedded into the FinovateFall agenda. We will offer time slots throughout the event to allow you to meet six solutions providers in an efficient, quickfire meeting format. To ensure you are meeting with companies offering real solutions to your challenges, we have hand-selected the best fintechs to optimize your time.

How It Works

Personalized Matches: Upon registering for FinovateFall, you’ll have the opportunity to detail your specific business challenges and needs. Our platform will then match you with the most relevant fintech providers.
Efficient Scheduling: LevelUp slots are strategically placed within the event agenda, ensuring that you have ample time to participate without missing other key sessions and presentations.
Focused Interactions: Each meeting slot is designed to be quick and focused, allowing you to get straight to the point and determine if the provider’s solution is right for your institution.

Why LevelUp?

Targeted Networking: Meet only with providers who are pre-vetted and matched to your specific needs, saving you time and effort.
Optimized Agenda: The seamless integration of LevelUp within the event schedule ensures that you maximize your time at FinovateFall.
Enhanced Collaboration: By focusing on relevant matches, you can build meaningful partnerships that drive real business results.

Join Us at FinovateFall 2024

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to revolutionize your networking experience. Whether you’re looking to explore new fintech innovations, solve specific business challenges, or simply expand your professional network, LevelUp is here to make it happen.

Register now for FinovateFall 2024 and take the first step towards leveling up your networking game. We can’t wait to see you there!

For more information and to register, visit our FinovateFall 2024 page.

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Finovate eMagazine: The Bright Future of Fintech

By Lili Nguyen Posted on October 25, 2023
Categories: Finovate eMagazine, Marketing

Insights from FinovateFall 2023

It’s no secret that we’re facing many challenges right now. Declining VC investment, rising interest rates, and the looming threat of a recession are all obviously significant obstacles that must be overcome, but we’re also seeing a surge of innovators tackling real-world challenges head on.

At FinovateFall, we’ve seen exciting automation and AI use cases, including generative AI! We also heard financial institutions talk about their digital transformation journey and how they’ve applied technology to improve their processes and enable their businesses to grow. Plus, we met with industry agnostic experts who inspired us to be better leaders and innovators and who helped us think about a future with AI and a future in the metaverse.

Fill in this form to read this eMagazine and find insights from:

The Finovate audience – we share the polling results from FinovateFall 2023, and find out what trends the industry is excited about
Azriel Chelst at FIS, who shares his fintech survival kit for the current challenging economic environment
Our partners and demoers, who talk about applications of AI and automation, and innovations in customer experience and business strategy
Fintech founders, who share their funding experience
Financial institutions (SVB, Truist Financial Corporation, OMB Bank), and find out about their digital transformation journeys

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Congrats to the 2023 Finovate Awards Winners!

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 12, 2023
Categories: Finovate Awards, Marketing

The financial technology landscape is ever-evolving, with innovation and creativity driving the industry forward. It’s in this dynamic environment that the Finovate Awards stand as a testament to excellence. We are thrilled to present this year’s Finovate Award winners.

The Finovate Awards honor both established institutions and rising stars that have made significant strides in delivering cutting-edge products and services to the financial sector. From breakthrough banking platforms to revolutionary AI-powered solutions, these winners have not only adapted to the demands of the modern financial world but have also set new standards for innovation and customer-centricity. Each winner was selected from the a group of finalists that demonstrated exceptional contributions to society and developed groundbreaking solutions that have reshaped the fintech landscape.

Without further ado, let’s celebrate the visionaries and innovators who have earned their place in the spotlight as this year’s Finovate Award winners.

Best Alternative Investments Solution	CAIS
Best Back-Office/Core Services Solution	Arteria AI
Best BNPL Solution	Yabx
Best Consumer Lending Solution	Lending Point
Best Customer Experience Solution	Hometap
Best Digital Bank	SoFi
Best Embedded Finance Solution	QuickFi
Best Enterprise Payments Solution	EBizCharge
Best Financial Mobile App	ANNA
Best Fintech Accelerator/Incubator	Mastercard Start Path
Best Fintech Partnership	US Bank and Submittable
Best ID Management Solution	1Kosmos
Best Insurtech Solution	Bolt
Best Mobile Payments Solution	Zenus Bank
Best RegTech Solution	SentiLink
Best SMB/SME Solution	Mercury
Best Use of Robotic Process Automation	KYC Agent by JP Morgan
Best Wealth Management Solution	Atlas Point Edge
Excellence in Decentralized Finance	Amberdata
Excellence in Financial Inclusion	Tricolor
Excellence in Sustainability	ImpactGINI by GreenArc
Executive of the Year	Mike Massaro, Flywire
Innovator of the Year	Rochelle Nawrocki-Gorey, SpringFour
Top Emerging Fintech Company	Union Credit

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3 Ways Finovate Underpins Sustainability

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 6, 2023
Categories: FinovateFall 2023, List series, Marketing

Environmental, social, and governance– better known as ESG– initiatives are hot topics across the fintech and banking sectors. And as a fintech and banking conference, we’ve taken a look at our own operations to improve our environmental, social, and governance practices.

Below is a breakdown of each ESG aspect, and what we are doing at FinovateFall this year to support and promote a healthier environment.

Environmental responsibility

Reducing carbon emissions
We’re reducing carbon emissions not only in the way we conduct FinovateFall, but also in how we travel to the event by carpooling and taking public transportation when possible.

Environmental sustainability content
FinovateFall will host dedicated on-stage content on environmental sustainability in fintech. In addition to featuring demos from fintechs supporting sustainability, we’re hosting a keynote by Greg O’Gara, Lead Analyst, Wealth Management at Javelin Strategy & Research on Climate Change, ESG & Financial Services, What Do Wall Street & Your Customers Want?

Sustainable development

Sustainable Fintech Scholarship
With our demo scholarship program, Finovate will spotlight underrepresented founders and startups tackling climate change, diversity, and financial inclusion. The program will also help us expand our demo line ups to include more voices, more perspectives, and more cutting-edge thinking within fintech.

Sustainable development goals
Our aim is for FinovateFall to promote long-term sustainable development – in the way that we run the event but also in how it’s implemented in the market as a whole. We are committing to:

Using our content to support the sustainability of the fintech market
Developing close partnerships with charities, companies and associations and giving them a platform to promote their work in the field
Facilitating discussions on pertinent topics including diversity and inclusion, gender balance, sustainability trends, the impact on the environment, and more.

Governance

Operation Backpack
We are supporting Operation Backpack, a Volunteers of America non-profit that provides brand new backpacks and grade-specific school supplies to children living in homeless shelters throughout the five boroughs of New York City. Please help us support this important work by making a donation. Even a small contribution will help!

Diversity and inclusion content
We’re hosting a fireside chat on diversity, and one on financial inclusion. Jim Perry, Senior Strategist at Market Insights will discuss why diversity matters and Melissa Koide, CEO of FinRegLab will talk about driving purpose and profit through financial inclusion.

Startup Booster
FinovateFall’s Startup Booster program offers smaller fintechs a voice in front of a large investor audience. The program is limited to fintech and tech startups who are less than five years old and have raised, at most, Seed capital. Participants will attend a 60-minute reception that will offer face time with investors, as well as a dedicated cocktail table and sign at the event.

Our driving force

Overarching all of this is our initiative called FasterForward, our parent company Informa’s program that embeds sustainability into everything we do and aims to help our customers do the same. With FasterFoward, we are striving to achieve nine specific goals:

Become carbon neutral as a business and across our products by 2025
Halve the waste generated through our products and events by 2025
Become zero waste and net zero carbon by 2030 or earlier
Embed sustainability inside 100% of our brands by 2025
Help and promote the achievement of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals through our brands
Enable one million disconnected people to access networks and knowledge by 2025
Contribute $5bn per year in value for our host cities by 2025
Contribute value of at least 1% of profit before tax to community groups by 2025
Save customers more carbon than we emit by 2025

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Getting in Gear by Asking the Right Questions

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on August 25, 2023
Categories: Marketing

Fall is coming, and with the changing of the season comes an increase in activity in the fintech world as organizations work to launch their latest initiatives before the end of the year.

Fortunately, our friends at FintechFutures have asked all the right questions in their latest video interview series. The clips below cover the current economic climate, fintech trends, and future industry technologies. These are all worth watching as you prepare your fourth quarter initiatives.

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FinovateFall 2023 by the Numbers

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on August 21, 2023
Categories: FinovateFall 2023, Marketing

If you’re in fintech, then you’re most likely a numbers person. You like to see the metrics, the data, and the quantitative side of things. So we’ve assembled the data surrounding this year’s FinovateFall event to offer a numerical picture of what you can expect at the show, which is taking place September 11 through 13 in New York City. Tickets are still available at a discounted rate.

14^th

This year marks the 14^th FinovateFall we’ve held in New York City. Time flies when you’re having fun!

15

We’ll offer 15 networking sessions across the three-day event to ensure you have time to mingle and make meaningful connections.

59

Finovate is known for live demos. This year, we’ll feature 59 (and counting) companies demo their technology live on stage.

27

27 of our demoing companies are new-to-Finovate.

177

We’re hosting 177 speakers on stage. Those 177 fintech experts will discuss a wide range of fintech topics in demos, keynote presentations, panels, and more.

37

37 investor organizations are taking part in our Startup Booster Program.

40

40 of the top 50 banks in the U.S. are attending.

350+

More than 350 banks and financial institutions will be represented.

15

The number of miles from JFK International Airport to Marriott Marquis Times Square. We’ll see you there!

78

It only takes 78 seconds to watch a clip highlighting everything you need to succeed at this year’s event:

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Investor All Stars: Where is the smart money investing in fintech?

Analyst All Stars: How financial services have been changed forever

Embedded finance matures

Organizations navigating the impact of the EU AI Act

The rise of AI-powered personalization

Payments get faster and smarter

Regtech redefined by real-time compliance

Introducing LevelUp

Seamlessly Integrated

How It Works

Why LevelUp?

Join Us at FinovateFall 2024

Insights from FinovateFall 2023

Environmental responsibility

Sustainable development

Governance

Our driving force

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27

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350+

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